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Troubled waters: Palestinians denied fair access to water
Amnesty International, 2009Lack of access to adequate, safe and clean water has been a longstanding problem for the Palestinian population of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Though exacerbated in recent years by the impact of drought-induced water scarcity, this report argues that the problem arises principally as a result of Israel’s discriminatory water policies and practices against this population.DocumentAnnual report on international religious freedom, 2009
US Department of State, 2009This document records the status of respect for religious freedom in all countries during the period from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. The Annual Report's primary focus is on the actions of governments, including those that contribute to religious repression or tolerate violence against religious minorities as well as those that protect and promote religious freedom.DocumentAn introduction to human rights in the Middle East & North Africa: a guide for NGOs
Network Learning, 2009The international human rights system has been slow to develop in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.DocumentOur rights are not optional: advocating for the implementation of CEDAW through its Optional Protocol
International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific, 2008The Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW) can help ensure that State Parties to CEDAW are accountable for its implementation. This publication aims to strengthen existing efforts around the ratification and effective use of the OP-CEDAW at the national level.DocumentSur International Journal on Human Rights: Issue 9 - Sixty years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2008This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the indivisibility and the universality of human rights.DocumentQuantitative Human Rights Indicators: a survey of major initiatives
Åbo Akademi University, 2005This paper provides an overview and assessment of some major attempts and approaches to develop quantitative human rights and related indicators that have been recently used for human rights monitoring.DocumentStatelessness and the benefits of citizenship: a comparative study
Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2009Sixty 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 hurdles to overcoming statelessness and how has citizenship made a qualitative difference in the lives of formerly excluded groups?DocumentArab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009This 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 one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.DocumentAdvancing children’s rights: a guide for civil society organisations on how to engage with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2009
Plan International, 2008Civil society organisations can play an important part and bring value to the work of the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) in its mission to promote and protect the rights of the child.DocumentWhat human rights indicators should measure?
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005One of the most persistent obstacles facing human rights measurement is the widespread reluctance to use quantitative data to assess civil and political rights. There is a common belief in the human rights community that while economic and social rights are well suited to quantitative evaluation, civil and political rights are not.Pages
