Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Gender, Governance
Showing 111-120 of 526 results
Pages
- Document
AWID reflections on the United Nations Secretary General Report “A Life of Dignity for All”
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013What steps will advance the development agenda post-2015? AWID presents this analysis of the United Nations Secretary General (SG) Report “A Life of Dignity For All” in order to contribute to debates from a feminist and human rights perspective.DocumentCreating youth employment in Asia
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014Several countries in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing demographic changes. Over 60 per cent of the world's youth live in Asia and the Pacific, which translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged 15 to 24 years. They represent a key asset for the countries of this region.DocumentAfrica's responsibility to protect: seminar report
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007A perennial issue confronting the international community is the degree to which international society is responsible for the protection of civilians during humanitarian crises. The “responsibility to protect” principle imparts the international community with three commitments: the responsibility to prevent; the responsibility to react; and the responsibility to rebuild.DocumentAfrica's evolving human rights architecture
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008Since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 in which about 800,000 people were killed, human rights protection has been placed on the continental agenda by the African Union (AU) and Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs) such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC); the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD); aDocumentWomen in post-conflict societies in Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006By proclaiming a range of civil and political rights, the 2003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Women’s Protocol) allows women living in societies emerging from conflict to engage as equal partners in activities such as political participation; access to, and management of, land and inherited properties; and proDocumentThe Eagle and the Springbok: strengthening the Nigeria/South Africa relationship: seminar report
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2012Nigeria and South Africa have led economic integration and development, as well as peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, in their respective sub-regions, and in other parts of Africa. Their partnership represents the continent’s most strategic bilateral relationship.DocumentNational Human Rights Institutions, conflict management and peacebuilding in Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2004The intersection of human rights and conflict management has become highly relevant in the African context - all the more so since the establishment of the African Union (AU), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and related organs.DocumentNHRI: defenders of human rights, managers of conflict, builders of peace? National Human Rights Institutions in Afric
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2005The period since the 1990s has been called the age of national human rights institutions. During this time, the world has witnessed a rapid proliferation of state-sponsored bodies mandated to protect and promote human rights. One kind of institution has become particularly popular: the national human rights commission.DocumentPost-conflict reconstruction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): policy brief
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011This CCR policy brief is based on a policy advisory group meeting, held on 19-20 April 2010, in response to a request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat in Botswana, to assess the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction in the DRC.