Knowledge Centre : Development Practice : Human Rights Approach to Development : Page 2
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- Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR)
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HSHR's Mission: Through human rights education and the transfer of know-how, Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR) inspires human capabilities and develops social capacities to fight poverty, the discrimination of women and the societal exclusion of minority population groups in developing countries. Human rights law and protection mechanisms give content to HSHR's work, basic business principles are applied to put it into practice. Working with local non government organizations (NGOs), HSHR creates value in grassroots communities around the world.
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- Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa
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The Institute provides concrete training and capacity building in how to investigate, prepare and present cases of human rights violations before the African Commission. The Institute serves as counsel for individuals and NGOs, litigating their cases against states parties before the African Commission. The Institute publishes vital material on human rights, and researches emerging areas of human rights law.
http://www.africaninstitute.org
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- United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development
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This declaration on the Right to Development, issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, legitimises development as a "comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process, which aims at the constant improvement of the well-being of the entire population and of all individuals on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in development and in the fair distribution of benefits resulting therefrom." Adopted by General Assembly resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
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- Rights and Humanity
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Rights and Humanity promotes respect for human rights as a foundation for global economic and social justice and human development. We have a particular focus on empowering people living in poverty and social isolation. Rights and Humanity is best known for pioneering a human rights approach to HIV/AIDS and human development
http://www.rightsandhumanity.org
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- NZAID Education is a Human Right (PDF)
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Education is a Human Right, & yet many of NZAID s partner countries are struggling to provide quality education that is accessible to all children. NZAID is committed to helping these partners meet the internationally-agreed Education for All goals, which emphasise improved access to quality education especially for girls, who are the most likely to miss out (PDF 190k).
http://www.nzaid.govt.nz/library/docs/nzaid-education-is-a-human-right.pdf
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- The Right to Water
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This website, launched on Human Rights Day 2003, has been established by WaterAid and Rights and Humanity, in cooperation with FAN, as part of our contribution to the International Year of Freshwater 2003. Its aims are to: * Provide information on relevant policy commitments and explain the concepts and theories of human rights law with respect to the right to water. * Disseminate General Comment No 15 adopted by the UN Committee on Economic, Socialand Cultural Rights confirming and interpreting the right to water. * Promote the use of the right to water as a tool for community empowerment, advocacy and legal redress.
http://www.righttowater.org.uk/
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- Advancing Safe Motherhood through Human Rights
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WHO, (2001). This report considers how human rights laws can be applied to relieve the estimated 1,400 deaths world-wide that occur every day, an annual mortality rate of 515,000, that women suffer because they are pregnant. Human rights principles have long been established in national constitutional and other laws and in regional and international human rights treaties to which nations voluntarily commit themselves. The intention of the report is to facilitate initiatives by governmental agencies, nongovernmental groups and, for instance, international organizations to foster compliance with human rights in order to protect, respect and fulfil women's rights to safe motherhood (Source: Eldis).
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/RHR_01_5_advancing_safe_motherhood/index.html
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- Effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of all human rights
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United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, Agenda item 10. Resolution approving the Commission's decision to renew the mandate of the independent expert on the effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights.
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- Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Developing Countries (PDF)
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By Varun Gauri, World Bank, Development Research Group, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3006, March 2003. The paper analyzes contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries. It assesses the foundations and uses of social rights in development, outlines an economic approach to improving health and education service provision, and then highlights differences, similarities, and the hard questions that the economic critique poses for rights. The paper argues that the policy consequences of rights overlap considerably with a modern economic approach. Both the rights and the economic approach are skeptical that electoral politics and de facto market rules by themselves provide sufficient accountability for the effective and equitable provision of health and education services, and that further intra-sectoral reforms in governance, particularly those that strengthen the hand of service recipients, are needed. There remain differences between the two approaches. Whether procedures for service delivery are ends in themselves, the degree of disaggregation at which outcomes should be assessed, the consequences of long-term deprivation, metrics used for making tradeoffs, and the behavioral distortions that result form subsidies are all areas where the approaches diverge. Even here, however, the differences are not irreconcilable, and advocates of the approaches need not regard each other as antagonists.
http://econ.worldbank.org/files/24988_wps3006.pdf
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- To right the wrongs of development
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Policies on development have been ignored with impunity. Little wonder, then, that the language of people's demands now centres on "rights". (India, January 2003)
http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/jan/vu-rights.htm
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- Human Development Report 2000
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Human Development Report 2000 looks at human rights as an intrinsic part of development and at development as a means to realizing human rights. It shows how human rights bring principles of accountability and social justice to the process of human development.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2000/en/
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