Human rights issues are notoriously controversial. Debates rage around numerous issues, not least the validity and universality of human rights themselves. However, the detention of children for...
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Child Rights in Pakistan: A Call for Reform and Political Will
by Arshad Mahmood The need to protect children in Pakistan has never been greater. With indicators like Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) or child welfare benchmarks set under the Convention on the...
When Legal Worlds Overlap Human Rights, State and Non-State Law
Introduction and Overview Why examine plural legal orders? This report is written for human rights advocates and policy-makers who find themselves in contexts where a specific dispute or subject...
Modes and Patterns of Social Control Implications for Human Rights Policy
Executive Summary 1. Introduction: The Research This report is the outcome of an enquiry into the human rights implications of contemporary patterns of social control - how laws, policies and...
Integrating Human Rights in the Anti-Corruption Agenda Challenges, Possibilities and Opportunities
Introduction Power, Corruption and Violence: AStructural Perspective Corruption has been given increased attention in recent years. A taboo subject until the early 1990s, it is recognised today to be...
La Integración de los Derechos Humanos en la Agenda de Combate a la Corrupción: Retos, Posibilidades y Oportunidades
Prólogo En los últimos 40 años se ha desarrollado una nutrida literatura especializada sobre corrupción. Lo mismo encontramos importantes estudios con análisis económicos y econométricos, que...
Irregular Migration, Migrant Smuggling and Human Rights: Towards Coherence
Migration policies across the world are driven by three core concerns: law and border enforcement, economic interest, and protection. This report argues that official policies are failing partly...
When Legal Worlds Overlap: Human Rights, State and Non-State Law
This report is written for human rights advocates and policy-makers who find themselves in contexts where a specific dispute or subject matter is governed by multiple norms, laws or forums that...
Sexuality And Human Rights - Discussion Paper
SCOPE OF THE REPORT This paper considers current human rights claims in relation to sexual rights, in formal human rights structures and processes. It shows that troublesome but predictable...
Sexuality and Human Rights - Discussion Paper
SCOPE OF THE REPORT This paper considers current human rights claims in relation to sexual rights, in formal human rights structures and processes. It shows that troublesome but predictable...
Corruption and Human Rights: Making the Connection
What impact does corruption have on enjoyment of human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights? When can human rights principles and tools help to curb and prevent corruption? In...
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide
Executive Summary This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it. It does not seek to reframe climate...
Enhancing Access to Human Rights
In recent decades, the worldwide human rights movement has seemed to make progress in attempting to create support for its values. More governments have formally incorporated human rights principles...
Ends & Means: Human Rights Approaches to Armed Groups
Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Rwanda, the Philippines, Chechnya, Somalia, Northern Ireland, Spain. Armed groups are active in numerous civil conflicts. Considered "terrorists" by some, and...
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide
This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it. It does not seek to reframe climate change as a "human...
Talking about Terrorism - Risks and Choices for Human Rights Organisations
Have human rights organisations responded adequately to the threat of international terrorism and official responses to that threat? The new report "Talking about Terrorism: Risks and Choices for...
Catching the Wind - Human Rights
The International Council on Human Rights Policy was created ten years ago to deliver relevant and useful ideas in the field of human rights policy. To reflect its first ten years of activity, the...
Negotiating Justice? Human Rights and Peace Agreements
The report examines human rights provisions in peace agreements, to shed some light on the role that they have in peace processes more generally. While the focus on peace agreements is somewhat...
Human Rights Standards: Learning from Experience
Since the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was adopted in 1948, numerous human rights standards have been created at the initiative of states, non-governmental organisations, victims, and other...
Assessing the Effectiveness of National Human Rights Institutions
National human rights institutions (NHRIs) are now, beyond a doubt, valued as essential partners in the task of protecting and promoting human rights at the national and regional levels. This is...