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  Human rights and dignity of Dalit women: report of the conference in the Hague, 20-25 November 2006

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006

  This report summarises the proceedings and the outcomes the 1st Conference on the Rights of Dalit Women held in The Hague, Netherlands.
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  Building the capacity of human rights leaders and their organisations

  International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007

  The Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) has pioneered a model of human rights capacity-building linked to higher education.
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  Malaysia's civil and political rights status report 2006: overview

  SUARAM, 2006

  This report summarsise human rights violations in Malaysia throughout the year 2006. Areas of particular interest include detention without trial and the abuse of police powers.
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  Implementing refugee ‘rights’ in Egypt

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  In the world of refugee policy, traditional ‘needs-based’ approaches are being replaced by ‘rights based’ approaches founded on the recognition that refugees can shape their own lives. In Egypt, this shift has been widely accepted. But there are many challenges to its practical implementation.
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  Protecting persons affected by natural disasters: IASC operational guidelines on human rights and natural disasters

  Brookings Institution, 2006

  How do you protect Human Rights in times of natural disaster and emergency? This report offers guidelines from the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) on humanitarian action in emergencies, including situations of natural disaster. There are also standards on protecting human rights in situations of armed conflict, internal displacement and refugee situations.
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  Human rights and freedom of expression events: learning from experience

  Pact Cambodia, 2006

  This publication documents the events of late 2005 and early 2006 relating to freedom of expression and human rights in Cambodia. This period was marked as one of civil unrest and detention.
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  Victims, perpetrators or heroes?: child soldiers before the International Criminal Court

  Redress Trust, 2006

  The International Criminal Court broke new ground by charging Ugandan and Congolese warlords with recruiting or using children in hostilities.
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  Human security: concepts, implications and application to the post-intervention challenges in Afghanistan

  Centre of International Studies and Research, 2005

  This paper reviews the debates in relation to the concept of “human security” applied specifically to the situation in Afghanistan.It provides an examination of the definitions of human security and its reception by the international community along with analysis of the implications that the adoption of a human security approach might imply in deciding policies and applying programmes.The pa
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  id21 viewpoint - A quiet radicalism? Rights-based work in repressive states

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Rights-based approaches to development view poverty as a consequence of human rights violations rather than unfulfilled needs.
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  Unpacking rights and wrongs: do human rights make a difference?: the case of water rights in India and South Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This paper focuses on why poor and marginalised people still lack access to economic, social and cultural rights despite a fairly mainstream support to positive rights in mainstream development debates.

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