Legal empowerment & access to justice
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- 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...
- Access to justice in Asia Pacific: a review of assessment indicators
- ( J. C. Teehankee / UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok , 2003)
- This paper reviews the indicators used to measure impacts and processes of access to justice and justice-related programs across the Asia-Pacific region and their limitations to assess improvements on...
- Indicators to measure progress towards security
- ( Vera Institute of Justice , 2003)
- This guide describes the process of choosing appropriate indicators for measuring progress towards safety and justice. It is written for managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, secu...
- Links between poverty and access to justice
- ( E Buscaglia, / Regional Bureau for Arab States, United Nations Development Programme , 2001)
- This paper seeks to identify the links between access to justice and poverty by using case study analysis. It also identifies governance related factors blocking the poor people’s access to just...
- Tackling discrimination against women in the Arab world
- ( M. Sabra / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2009)
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One of the root causes of the social and economic problems in the Arab world is the structural discrimination against women in these countries, a conclusion reached by the Arab Human Development Re...
- A case for increasing UNDP's engagement with informal justice system
- ( E. Wojkowska / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006)
- This paper is for practitioners working on access to justice. It presents a case for UNDP to increase its engagement with informal justice systems so that access to justice for poor and disadvantaged ...
- The difference between legal rights and reality for Arab women
- ( B.A. Barakat;A. Funk;S. Kröhn / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2007)
- The legal reality for women in the Arab world is such that legal rights enshrined in international conventions and in national constitutions and laws are often of little relevance to the lives of many...
- Cause and effect: exploring the relations between law and poverty
- ( L. Williams (ed);A. Kjönstad (ed);P. Robson (ed) / Comparative Research Programme on Poverty , 2008)
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Poverty tends to be considered as an economic subject area rather than a legal one. And yet, a society’s distribution of income and opportunity is the outcome of its legal syst...
- The need for rights-based approaches for people impacted by conservation practices
- ( International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) , 2008)
- In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the ...
- Access to Justice in Sierra Leone
- ( P. Dale / World Bank , 2007)
- This paper presents a review of literature on the current state of local level justice institutions and access to justice in Sierra Leone’s provinces. The review is based on an exploration of le...
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