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Human Rights Indicators - Indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of human rights
Guide / Manual / Indicators, Human Rights, Other UN AgencyThe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has published Human Rights Indicators: A Guide to Measurement and Implementation. The publication aims to assist in developing quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure progress in the implementation of international human rights norms and principles. The Guide describes the conceptual and methodological framework for human...
Capacity Assessment Manual for National Human Rights Institutions
Framework, Human Rights, Inter-Governmental Organization, UNDP Produced, Other UN AgencyAuthors/Editors: Heidi Han et al. This manual is the product of a partnership between the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the United Nations Development Programme Asia Pacific Regional Centre. The assessment methodology is an intensive self-assessment process which helps NHRIs identify areas in...
The State of the World’s Children Special Edition: Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyIn commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November 2009, UNICEF is dedicating a special edition of its flagship publication The State of the World’s Children to child rights. The report broadly assesses the Convention’s impact on children’s well-being and human development during the past two decades,...
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2008
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Other UN AgencyUNHCR systematically gathers and reports statistics on populations of concern, including numbers, locations, demographic characteristics, as well as legal and physical protection needs. Such information is required to design programmes that bring protection and improved welfare to refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and others of concern. The Statistical...
Children in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and Budgets in Ghana
Africa, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Other UN Agency, Civil SocietyThis is one of eight briefing papers that present the main findings of a study on children, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and budgets in West and Central Africa. The objective of the study was to deepen understanding of the impact on children of the PRSPs, the evolving fiscal environment and related reforms in public financial management systems and aid modalities in West and...
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Land Governance, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyFirst UN publication on the state of the world’s indigenous peoples reveals alarming statistics on poverty, health, education, employment, human rights, the environment and more. In the United States, a Native American is 600 times more likely to contract tuberculosis and 62 per cent more likely to commit suicide than the general population. In Australia, an indigenous...
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector in Switzerland
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Political Parties, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThe paper begins with a description of the ethnic structures and cleavages in Switzerland and their development. It then provides an overview of the Swiss political system and its institutional elements of political integration. Finally, the scope and limits of these arrangements are discussed through an analysis of their effects on minority representation and equality. Switzerland is one of...
Human Rights and the MDGs in Practice: A review of country strategies and reporting
Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Report, Other UN AgencyIn Claiming the Millennium Development Goals it was recommended that States should align MDG targets and indicators with international human rights standards. There was strong emphasis on aligning them closely with the relevant economic and social rights obligations, and on ensuring that the targets and indicators address the human rights of women and excluded groups. The publication attempts...
Millennium Development Goal 9: indicators and the state of democracy in Mongolia
Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Academic/Think Tank, Other UN AgencyThis publication contains two parts that present the outputs of the MDG-9 Project: the first part describes the methodology and the baseline for the MDG-9 indicators while the second describes the changes in the state of Mongolia’s democratic governance on the basis of the Country Information Note-II and the State of Democracy Assessment-II conducted in 2008 as a follow-up to the...