Human rights practices
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- Worldwide religious tolerance and intolerance
- ( US Department of State , 2009)
- This document records the status of respect for religious freedom in all countries during the period from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. The Annual Report's primary focus is on the actions of governme...
- the indivisibility and universality of human rights
- ( P. P. Popovic (ed);O. V. Vieira (ed) / Sur - International Journal on Human Rights , 2008)
- This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ...
- Can human rights be assessed quantitatively?
- ( A. Hines / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2005)
- One of the most persistent obstacles facing human rights measurement is the widespread reluctance to use quantitative data to assess civil and political rights. There is a common belief in the human r...
- Improving conditions for ageing populations in prison
- ( Prison Reform Trust , 2009)
- Prison staff working with older prisoners require specialist training and support, as the needs of older people can be hard to detect. The increase in numbers of people needing significant health and ...
- A review of the state of global human rights
- ( Amnesty International , 2009)
- The Amnesty International Report 2009 is a record of the state of human rights during 2008, in 157 countries and territories around the world. It depicts the systemic discrimination and insecurity tha...
- Torture as a system of investigation and repression in Mauritania
- ( Amnesty International , 2008)
- The report details the systematic use of torture by the security forces in Mauritania using interviews from prisoners and detainees in the prisons of Dar Naïm in Nouakchott (the capital) and Noua...
- Torture and repression: condoned by Syria's exceptional court
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2009)
- This report examines the activities of the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) in Syria set up during the state of emergency in 1963. While the the SSSC was set up to prosecute those it deemed a threa...
- Integrating human rights based approaches in the programme process
- ( G. Berman / UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education , 2008)
- This report is based on lessons learned from documenting experiences and programmes that incorporated the human rights-based approach (HRBA) in several Asia-Pacific countries. The report is intended f...
- The state's role in human rights violations in Pakistan
- ( D. Bouvier;F. Boggio Cosadia / International Federation for Human Rights , 2009)
- This report addresses the situation of human rights in Pakistan during 2007 and the first half of 2008. It discusses violations of the principles of the rule of law and human rights violations committ...
- How to use indicators for assessing human rights standards in development programmes?
- ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006)
- This document is a practical guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes, for UNDP country offices....
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