Commission Staff Working Document Tool Box “Develop a tool-box for working towards a rights-based approach to development cooperation, with the aim of integrating human rights principles into EU operational activities for...
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On 16 June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, making the framework the first corporate human rights responsibility initiative to be endorsed...
In Uganda, the policy context relating to disability is forward looking and rights based, broadly considering the situation of adults with disabilities. However, a lack of knowledge and awareness regarding the status of the rights...
Everything you always wanted to know about…the Africa-EU Democratic Governance&Human Rights Partnership ! 1. What is it? 2.How does it work? 3.What is the thematic focus? 4.Why does the Strategy matter? 5.Main challenges ahead
In June 2012, the Foreign Affairs Council adopted a Strategic Framework on Human Rights and Democracy with an Action Plan for putting it into practice. This is the first time that the European Union has had a unified Strategic...
Publication Date: March 2014 The Compendium on human rights and the environment takes stock of the normative and jurisprudential developments in the field of human rights and the environment. It describes international instruments...
Here are some documents about Human Rights to Water and Sanitation, including papers from the UN Human Rights Council and a report with an example of putting theory into practise from GTZ work in Kenya. This compressed folder...
UNICEF, in partnership with UNDP, UNWomen, ILO, IDRC, IOCE, IDEAS and CONEVAL released the book "Evaluation for equitable development results" in March 2012. This new book complements the manual “How to design and implement Equity...
Water and Sanitation as Human Rights OHCHR ( United nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner) – Regional Office for Europe July 2010
The UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were amongst the first international agreements to frame the notion of “universality”. Since then the term has been used in various fora and processes, for example in...