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Burundi: Rape - the hidden human rights abuse
Amnesty International, 2004This report examines rape in the context of armed conflict in Burundi. It looks at how the legal framework fails to provide justice for victims of rape and sexual violence, and argues that urgent action is required to address the situation.DocumentSudan, oil, and human rights
Human Rights Watch, 2003This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.DocumentUN Sub-Commission draft norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2003This document constitutes a set of specific human rights guidelines on the diverse challenges affecting a broad range of industries. They are being presented for endorsement by the Human Rights Commission in March 2004.DocumentDeconstructing engagement: corporate self-regulation in conflict zones – implications for human rights and Canadian public policy
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003This paper examines the existing governance gap in the accountability of TNCs for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law associated with their extraterritorial operations. It assesses the adequacy of efforts at self-regulation that involves the development and implementation of voluntary standards and self-assessment and verification techniques.Document"We want to live as humans": repression of women and girls in Western Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch, 2002This report argues that post-Taliban Afghanistan has failed to lift the severe restrictions and violations on women and children's human rights. This is due to the fact that in many areas Taliban officials have been replaced by warlords, police officers, and local officials with similar attitudes toward women.DocumentTowards an actor-oriented perspective on human rights
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002The document argues that looking for the meaning of rights from the perspective of those claiming them pushes the boundaries of conventional human rights debates and expands the range of claims that can be validated as rights.The paper draws out these 'actor-oriented' perspectives through a discussion of four key debates that have preoccupied human rights scholars and practitioners, challengingDocumentHuman rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium
Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.DocumentHumanitarian and human rights emergencies
Brookings Institution, 2001As the world's only super-power and a major humanitarian aid donor, the United States has a critical role in shaping the response to these emergencies.This policy briefing states that whether or not the Bush administration decides to maintain American leadership in this area, it will have to develop firm guidelines for humanitarian action in the cases it chooses to address.DocumentHuman rights, religious conflict, and globalization: ultimate values in a new world order
Management of Social Transformations Clearing House, 1999The belief in innate human rights has achieved quasi-religious status in the late-modern world.