Human Rights Indicators

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9211541980

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Human Rights Indicators by Anonim Pdf

"The basic structure of the Guide is geared towards supporting a systematic and comprehensive translation of universal human rights standards into indicators that are contextually relevant. This approach favours using objective information which is easily available, or can be collected, for monitoring the national implementation of human rights. This requires the reader to: [1] Understand the conceptual approach so as to identify indicators, after developing a preliminary understanding of the human rights normative framework; [2] Explore the alternative data-generating methods to populate the selected indicators; and [3] Apply and interpret the numbers that go with an indicator so as to build an assessment on the state of human rights."--Page 8.

Author : Siobhan McInerney-Lankford,Hans-Otto Sano
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821385763

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Human Rights Indicators in Development by Siobhan McInerney-Lankford,Hans-Otto Sano Pdf

Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization, both qualitatively and quantitatively. They offer an empirical or evidence-based dimension to the normative content of human rights legal obligations and a provide means of connecting those obligations with empirical data and evidence, and in this way relate to human rights accountability and the enforcement of human rights obligations. Human rights indicators are important both for assessment and diagnostic purposes: the assessment function of human rights indicators relates to their use in monitoring accountability, effectiveness and impact, while the diagnostic purposes relates to measuring the current state of human rights implementation and enjoyment in a given context, whether regional, country-specific or local. This paper offers a preliminary review of the foregoing in the development context, and a general perspective on the significance of human rights indicators for development processes and outcomes. It is not intended to be prescriptive and does not provide specific operational recommendations on the use of human rights indicators in development projects. Nor does it advocate a particular approach or mode of integrating human rights in development, or argue for a rights-based approach to development. This paper is designed to provide development practitioners with a preliminary view on the possible relevance, design and use of human rights indicators in development policy and practice. It also introduces a basic conceptual framework about the relationship between rights and development, including in the World Bank context and surveys a range of methodological approaches on human rights measurement, exploring in general terms different types of human rights indicators and their potential implications for development at three different levels of convergence or integration.

Author : Todd Landman,Edzia Carvalho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135270858

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Measuring Human Rights by Todd Landman,Edzia Carvalho Pdf

The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights. Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights. Measuring Human Rights: draws explicitly on the international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured contains a comprehensive methodological framework for operationalizing this human rights content into human rights measures includes separate chapters on the methods, strengths and biases of different human rights measures, including events-based, standards-based, survey-based, and socio-economic and administrative statistics covers measures of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights includes a complete bibliography, as well as sources and locations for data sets useful for the measurement of human rights. This volume offers a significant and timely addition to this important area of work in the field of human rights, and will be of interest to academics and NGOs, INGOs, international governmental organizations, international financial institutions, and national governments themselves.

Author : Marks, Stephen P.,Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781005972

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Critical Issues in Human Rights and Development by Marks, Stephen P.,Rajagopal, Balakrishnan Pdf

This collection addresses human rights and development for researchers, policymakers and activists at a time of major challenges. ÔCritical issuesÕ in the title signifies both the urgency of the issues and the need for critical rethinking. After exploring the overarching issues of development and economic theory, gender, climate change and disability, the book focuses on issues of technology and trade, education and information, water and sanitation, and work, health, housing and food.

Author : Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226261317

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The Seductions of Quantification by Sally Engle Merry Pdf

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy—overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge.

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : MINN:31951D03532960M

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Realizing the Right to Development by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

This book is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. It contains a collection of analytical studies of various aspects of the right to development, which include the rule of law and good governance, aid, trade, debt, technology transfer, intellectual property, access to medicines and climate change in the context of an enabling environment at the local, regional and international levels. It also explores the issues of poverty, women and indigenous peoples within the theme of social justice and equity. The book considers the strides that have been made over the years in measuring progress in implementing the right to development and possible ways forward to make the right to development a reality for all in an increasingly fragile, interdependent and ever-changing world.

Author : Erik André Andersen,Hans-Otto Sano,Danish Institute for Human Rights,Institut for Menneskerettigheder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Human rights advocacy
ISBN : 8791836069

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Human Rights Indicators at Programme and Project Level by Erik André Andersen,Hans-Otto Sano,Danish Institute for Human Rights,Institut for Menneskerettigheder Pdf

Author : International Council on Human Rights Policy
Publisher : ICHRP
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9782940259670

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Assessing the Effectiveness of National Human Rights Institutions by International Council on Human Rights Policy Pdf

Author : United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0195216792

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Human Development Report 2000 by United Nations Development Programme Pdf

The eleventh edition in the series, the Human Development Report 2000: Human Development and Human Rights provides a thought provoking analysis of these two interrelated and intertwined issues. Human rights and human development are mutually reinforcing and culminate in enlarged human freedom. The Report traces the history of struggle for human rights as a common human experience and outlines the new frontier of the rights agenda for the 21st Century. HDR 2000 demonstrates the ways in which human rights enrich human development goals: adding moral force and ideas of claims, duties and obligations. Human development, in turn, brings a dynamic long-term perspective to human rights and adds more concrete analysis, quantification, and must consider the human rights impacts of policy choices. The Report analyses how human rights must be respected, protected and promoted in the development process. To that end, it addresses the accountability of governments to fulfill their duties, and provides a timely analysis of the duties and obligations of newer actors in the fields of human rights and human development such as corporations, NGOs, individuals, the international community and markets. Of particular importance is consideration of how the current global economic rules and institutions address human rights issues. The Report proposes strategies for promoting development that also protect and further human rights, with significant implications for a pro-human rights approach to development. HDR 2000 includes and updates the widely respected Human Development Indicators that compare the relative levels of human development in most countries of the world, and presents data tables on all aspects of human development.

Author : Kevin Davis,Angelina Fisher,Benedict Kingsbury,Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199658244

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Governance by Indicators by Kevin Davis,Angelina Fisher,Benedict Kingsbury,Sally Engle Merry Pdf

Indicators and rankings are widely used by governments and organisations to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and success of policy decisions. This book evaluates the creation of indicators, their impact on policy decisions, and the implications of their use.

Author : Jean Candler,Great Britain. Equality and Human Rights Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1842064304

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Human Rights Measurement Framework by Jean Candler,Great Britain. Equality and Human Rights Commission Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264049475

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OECD Journal on Development, Volume 9 Issue 2 Measuring Human Rights and Democratic Governance: Experiences and Lessons from Metagora by OECD Pdf

On the occasion of the 60 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this special issue of the OECD Journal on Development focuses on robust methods and tools for assessing human rights, democracy and governance.

Author : Sally Engle Merry,Kevin E. Davis,Benedict Kingsbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107075207

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The Quiet Power of Indicators by Sally Engle Merry,Kevin E. Davis,Benedict Kingsbury Pdf

This highly accessible book investigates the rankings that increasingly influence perceptions of countries' governance and civil rights.

Author : Paul Gready,Wouter Vandenhole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136017605

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Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium by Paul Gready,Wouter Vandenhole Pdf

In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how this merging affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change. With a focus on practice and policy rather than pure theory, the volume also addresses broader questions such as what human rights and development can learn from one another, and whether the connections between the two fields are increasing or declining. The book is structured in three sections: Part I looks at approaches that combine human rights and development, including chapters on drivers of change; indicators; donor; and legal empowerment of the poor. Part II focuses on organisational contexts and includes chapters on the UN at the country level; EU development cooperation; PLAN’s children’s rights-based approach; and ActionAid’s human rights-based approach. Part III examines country contexts, including chapters on the ILO in various settings; the Congo; Ethiopia; and South Africa. Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium: Towards a Theory of Change will be of strong interest to students and scholars of human rights, development studies, political science and economics.

Author : Debora Valentina Malito,Gaby Umbach,Nehal Bhuta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319627076

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The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance by Debora Valentina Malito,Gaby Umbach,Nehal Bhuta Pdf

This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance. It provides a unique and comprehensive guide to the latest research in the study of indicators and their use in global governance and policy making. The editors provide a guide to the recent vast body of literature and practice on measuring governance and measurement as governance at the global level, and present a state-of-the-art analysis of social science research on indicators at both the transnational and the global level. The Handbook brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as well as policy-makers from international organisations and non-government organisations working in the field. This volume will be a valuable resource for students and academics in the fields of public policy, administration and management, international relations, political science, law, and globalisation, as well as policy makers and practitioners.