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News related to the impacts of our activities and work
We make a difference 10 January 2012
Legal pluralism
Our work has enabled strategic engagement with key institutions such as the UNDP, UN CEDAW, OHCHR etc. and the research community on human rights and justice reforms in relation to legal pluralism. Our analysis and policy recommendations have helped to strengthen critical human rights approaches to the question of culture and religion within global networks such as MUSAWAH (working towards equality in the Muslim family) and also fed into capacity building initiatives. Institutions such as UN Women—whose flagship publication Progress of the World’s Women (2011) includes a chapter on women’s rights in plural legal systems—and the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), have also drawn on our research and findings.
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Social control
Our work on Social Control has highlighted the penalisation of poverty by a range of social policies as a major human rights concern, opening a new line of enquiry and action. This has contributed to a forthcoming report from the UN Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty specifically addressing this issue.
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ContinueICHRP in Action 08 November 2011
■ Integrating Human Rights in the Anti-Corruption Agenda: Spanish translation release in Chile
7th November
The ICHRP is pleased to announce the Spanish language release of its second report on corruption, titled: “Integrating Human Rights in the Anti-Corruption Agenda : Challenges, Possibilities and Opportunities”.
There was a launch event hosted by the University Of Chile, Faculty of Law (Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile) on November 7th, 2011.
The event was an excellent forum for debate and conversation on the relations between corruption and human rights, with a particular focus on Latin America. (...) Continue
We make a difference 07 November 2011
Colloquium on Human Rights in the Global Economy: Convening Strategic Conversations
In January 2010, the ICHRP, in collaboration with Realising Rights, brought together macroeconomists and human rights advocates from around the world in a unique high-level discussion on human rights and economic policy in the light of the financial crisis with senior representatives from the ILO, OHCHR, UNCTAD, UNDESA, World Bank and the World Trade Organization.
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Longitudinal value of our work
Our work on NHRIs (2000 & 2005), published with OHCHR, continues to be widely used in their field offices in working with/establishing NHRIs, and is being jointly updated.
Similarly our work on business and human rights (2002) and decentralisation and local government (2002 & 2005), to take just two examples, generated path-breaking reports that remain relevant.
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Performance & Legitimacy
Assessing the Effectiveness
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Decentralisation and Human Rights
Doing Good Service Continue
Research Workshop: Towards redefining approaches to assessing and evaluating Human Rights work 04 November 2011
On the 3rd and 4th October 2011, ICHRP organised a research and practice workshop focusing on the challenges of understanding, describing and assessing what are variously described as the contributions, impacts, outcomes, results, value, etc., of human rights work. Continue
Integrating Human Rights in the Anti-Corruption Agenda – Spanish translation release in Chile 02 November 2011
The ICHRP is pleased to announce the Spanish language release of its second report on corruption, titled: Integrating Human Rights in the Anti-Corruption Agenda : Challenges, Possibilities and Opportunities. Continue
Discussing social policy and autonomy of people living in poverty 26 October 2011
On 25 October 2011 at the UN Headquarters in New York, the ICHRP in collaboration with ATD Fourth World, the Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations and the NGO Sub-Committee for the Eradication of Poverty coordinated a side event hosted by the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on Punishing the Poor: Exploring Measures in Social Policy that Penalise, Segregate, Control or Undermine the Autonomy of People Living in Poverty. Continue
We make a difference 16 September 2011
Climate Change
Our work on human rights and climate change has been profoundly influential in framing what is now a vibrant debate. It has informed the work of the OHCHR, numerous NGOs, the World Bank and country submissions to the UN Human Rights Council.
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Technology policy and human rights
A Rough Guide
Corruption
Our work on corruption has lead to the mainstreaming of human rights concerns within the work of Transparency International (TI) who have now co-published both our reports on corruption. Our reports provided a conceptual human rights basis to TI’s policy-making and aligned it more closely with the human rights framework.
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Integrating human rights in the anti-corruption agenda
Making the connection
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HRC Side-event on Perspectives on Human Rights and Climate Change 13 September 2011
On 13th September, the Geneva Missions of the Maldives and Ireland sponsored a Human Rights Council side-event on Perspectives on Human Rights and Climate Change. The Executive Summary for the upcoming report Climate Technology Policy and Human Rights: Protecting Rights in a Climate-Constrained World (see project) was released during this high-profile event. Continue
We celebrate the contributions of women 07 March 2011
The ICHRP recognizes the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Whether it is in direct relation to gender and sexuality or a component of corruption, poverty, social control and other human rights issues, women play a large role in forging the ICHRP’s broad understanding of human rights policy.
On March 8, we therefore join with others in celebrating International Women’s Day 2011. Continue
