Human Rights Indicators In Development

Author : Siobhan McInerney-Lankford,Hans-Otto Sano
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Paul Gready,Wouter Vandenhole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Marks, Stephen P.,Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Todd Landman,Edzia Carvalho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135270841

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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 : S. P. Marks
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781005966

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Critical Issues on Human Rights and Development by S. P. Marks Pdf

This collection addresses human rights and development for researchers, policymakers and activists at a time of major challenges. 'Critical issues' 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. The chapters then examine how to operationalize human rights in development through accountability, the right to development, indicators and the Sustainable Development Goals. The conclusion proposes international standards and social mobilization for human rights and sustainable development as normative and policy-oriented tools for addressing the climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic, social inequality, racial injustice, and the rise of populist authoritarianism and for advancing social justice and the equal value of all human beings. This book is of interest to students of development and human rights studies, international relations, international law and contemporary social issues, as well as professionals working at government, intergovernmental and civil society organizations dealing with these issues.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Erik André Andersen,Hans-Otto Sano,Danish Institute for Human Rights,Institut for Menneskerettigheder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264022102

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The Development Dimension Integrating Human Rights into Development Donor Approaches, Experiences and Challenges by OECD Pdf

By giving numerous examples of practical approaches, this publication shows that there are various ways for donor agencies to take human rights more systematically into account – in accordance with their respective mandates, modes of engagement and comparative advantage.

Author : Souter, David,Van der Spuy, Anri
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9789231003141

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UNESCO’s Internet universality indicators by Souter, David,Van der Spuy, Anri Pdf

Author : Inga Winkler,Carmel Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351024297

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The Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights by Inga Winkler,Carmel Williams Pdf

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015. The SDGs make the central promise to Leave No One Behind and include a dedicated goal to reduce inequalities. Human rights advocates have put great hopes in the SDGs as an instrument for transformative change. But do they bring about the much-needed paradigm shift? Or were the extensive consultations and negotiations much ado about nothing? "Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights: A Critical Early Review" follows two central lines of inquiry. The chapters examine to what extent do the SDGs live up to the promise to reduce inequalities and provide for monitoring and policies that address the needs of marginalized and invisible populations. They further suggest transparent and binding accountability processes and mechanisms to ensure that the SDGs are more than lofty goals and bring power to their promise. The volume begins with three chapters that focus on different aspects of SDG 10 and the commitment to reduce inequalities. From this cross cutting SDG, the following three chapters look at the translation of equality and accountability into specific sectors: health (SDG 3) and labour (SDG 8). The chapters were originally published in a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Nora Götzmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788970006

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Handbook on Human Rights Impact Assessment by Nora Götzmann Pdf

Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) has increasingly gained traction among state, business and civil society actors since the endorsement of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by the Human Rights Council in 2011. This timely and insightful Handbook addresses HRIA in the context of business and human rights.

Author : Arjun Sengupta,Archna Negi,Moushumi Basu
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761933700

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Reflections on the Right To Development by Arjun Sengupta,Archna Negi,Moushumi Basu Pdf

The Right to Development (RTD) is a new and highly contested right. Its emergence is linked to the demand for a `new international economic order’ by developing countries. Composite in nature and integrating civil and political rights with economic, social and cultural rights, the RTD approach underscores participation, a fair sharing of benefits, transparency and non-discrimination. The present volume explores the theoretical and practical aspects of RTD as an alternative to existing approaches to development. It brings together the reflections and insights of some of the finest scholars on the specific aspects of RTD.