Human security
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- How can statelessness be addressed?
- ( B. K. Blitz (ed);M. Lynch (ed) / Oxford Brookes University, UK , 2009)
- Sixty years after the international community embedded the right to nationality in the human rights architecture, approximately twelve million people around the world remain stateless. What are the hu...
- Ensuring human security can lead to better opportunities for human development in the Arab world
- ( M. El-Sayyid;M. Al-Rasheed;S. Benjelloun;Et al / Human Development Report Office, UNDP , 2009)
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This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to on...
- 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...
- Understanding the forces that govern human security in East Asia
- ( C. Soh / Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University , 2008)
- This paper examines the relationship between poverty alleviation and human security. It evaluates the significance of the concepts, how they are mutually reinforcing and how they contribute towards ac...
Discussing the human rights concerns raised by climate change
- ( S. Humphreys (ed);R. Archer (ed) / International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva , 2008)
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This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it. It pinpoints areas where climate change will have direc...
Securing land rights for all: how can the challenges be overcome?
- ( United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2008)
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Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas. Thi...
- Human security-oriented analysis needs to focus on armed violence
- ( I.S. Carvalho;R.M.C Corrêa / Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa , 2007)
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The paper shows that human security is more than a normative framework and must be reformulated into an operational and analytical tool. It begins by looking at the concept of human security, consi...
- Security versus development in Afghanistan
- ( Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh / Centre of International Studies and Research , 2005)
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This paper reviews the debates in relation to the concept of “human security” applied specifically to the situation in Afghanistan.
It provides an examination of the definitions of human security an...
- Applications of the Human Security Framework
- ( R. Jolly; D. Basu Ray / Human Development Report Office, UNDP , 2006)
- This paper identifies some interesting and useful applications of the Human Security Framework. In particular, the reports of Afghanistan, Latvia, Macedonia and Bangladesh are reviewed in depth, as ea...
- Providing guidance for putting safety, security and accessible justice policy into practice
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2002)
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The aim of these guidelines is to assist development staff in putting safety, security and accessible justice (SSAJ), policy into practice.
As the guidelines highlight there are a number of reason...
