human rights
- How to protect children from violence and abuse
- E. Jareg / Child Rights Information Network, 2008
- Save the Children developed this book as part of a package of learning materials for child rights workers about relevant measures to protect children against violence. The book discusses the different forms of violence and how t...
- Protection problems for displaced children
- L. Perez / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
- Internally displaced children in Central African Republic (CAR) face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence. Many have been recruited into the armed forces, kidnapped, and abducted to work as porters of stolen...
- Does linking human rights and MDGs matter?
- A. Cuzyova; E. Filmer-Wilson / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- While the policies of aid agencies increasingly emphasise the connection between human rights and development, in practice the two concepts often remain on separate, parallel tracks. This primer provides a conceptual overview of the l...
- Land tenure as a human rights issue: evidence from South Africa
- P. Wisborg / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2007
- Secure access to resources is now recognised in human rights discourse as a universal condition of human well-being. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of land tenure as a human rights issue, ...
- Re-establishing property rights for returned internally displaced people
- I.S. Aursnes; C. Foley / Norwegian Refugee Council, 2005
- Despite considerable advances in human rights and humanitarian law in recent years, the right to land, housing and property restitution is only gradually gaining recognition. This paper assesses the experiences of displaced peoples' p...
- Adopting a rights-based approach to food security
- V. Ask / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2006
- The concept of a 'rights-based approach' is widely understood as integrating norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development. The norms and standards are t...
- Issues of integration, settlement and return for Kosovan IDPs
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2005
- An estimated 250,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) – mainly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled within and out of Kosovo when Yugoslav forces withdrew in 1999 – are still unable to go back to their pre-war homes in the now U...
- The exploitation of Burmese migrant workers in the Thai garment industry
- J. Yimprasert; P. Hveem / Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
- This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries. In particular it examines the exploitation of Burmese migrant workers in the export processing zone in Mae Sot, Thailand. The paper deomstrates that the...
- An evaluation of UNFPA and IPPF in Vietnam
- A. Bondurant; S. Henderson; N. Quoc / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003
- This report is an evaluation of the contribution of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to addressing the reproductive rights and health needs of young people in the pe...
- Addressing human security issues
- T. Owen / United Nations [UN] Department for Disarmament Affairs, 2004
- This paper address three major human security issues, namely, the history and definition of human security, measuring human security, and the relationship between components of human security such as human rights. The author fi...
- How to protect children from violence and abuse
- E. Jareg / Child Rights Information Network, 2008
- Save the Children developed this book as part of a package of learning materials for child rights workers about relevant measures to protect children against violence. The book discusses the different forms of violence and how t...
- Protection problems for displaced children
- L. Perez / Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
- Internally displaced children in Central African Republic (CAR) face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence. Many have been recruited into the armed forces, kidnapped, and abducted to work as porters of stolen...
- Does linking human rights and MDGs matter?
- A. Cuzyova; E. Filmer-Wilson / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
- While the policies of aid agencies increasingly emphasise the connection between human rights and development, in practice the two concepts often remain on separate, parallel tracks. This primer provides a conceptual overview of the l...
- Land tenure as a human rights issue: evidence from South Africa
- P. Wisborg / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2007
- Secure access to resources is now recognised in human rights discourse as a universal condition of human well-being. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of land tenure as a human rights issue, ...
- Re-establishing property rights for returned internally displaced people
- I.S. Aursnes; C. Foley / Norwegian Refugee Council, 2005
- Despite considerable advances in human rights and humanitarian law in recent years, the right to land, housing and property restitution is only gradually gaining recognition. This paper assesses the experiences of displaced peoples' p...
- Adopting a rights-based approach to food security
- V. Ask / Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2006
- The concept of a 'rights-based approach' is widely understood as integrating norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development. The norms and standards are t...
- Issues of integration, settlement and return for Kosovan IDPs
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2005
- An estimated 250,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) – mainly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled within and out of Kosovo when Yugoslav forces withdrew in 1999 – are still unable to go back to their pre-war homes in the now U...
- The exploitation of Burmese migrant workers in the Thai garment industry
- J. Yimprasert; P. Hveem / Norwegian Church Aid, 2005
- This paper explores the race to the bottom in garment producing countries. In particular it examines the exploitation of Burmese migrant workers in the export processing zone in Mae Sot, Thailand. The paper deomstrates that the...
- An evaluation of UNFPA and IPPF in Vietnam
- A. Bondurant; S. Henderson; N. Quoc / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2003
- This report is an evaluation of the contribution of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to addressing the reproductive rights and health needs of young people in the pe...
- Addressing human security issues
- T. Owen / United Nations [UN] Department for Disarmament Affairs, 2004
- This paper address three major human security issues, namely, the history and definition of human security, measuring human security, and the relationship between components of human security such as human rights. The author fi...
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