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Human rights and assigned duties: Implications for corporations
Journal Article | Oct 2009
Human rights imply duties. The question is, duties for whom? Without a well-defined scheme for assigning duties correlative to human rights, ...
Human rights, business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Legal enforcement of social rights: Enabling conditions and impact assessment
Journal Article | Jan 2010
This article commends the concise and useful analysis of courts and the legal enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights given in Christian ...
Why hungry Guatemalans don't claim their food rights in court
CMI Brief | Oct 2011
Guatemala suffers from high levels of undernourishment and malnutrition despite a strong political commitment to the right to food. Yet, there ...
food litigation, Guatemala
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Project | Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...
Abortion, lawfare, legal mobilization, right to life, right to health, religion, transnational activist networks, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, El Salvador
Strengthening human rights in Ethiopia
News | 28 Jan 2014
Ethiopia has great success in its work to eradicate poverty. Yet, the human rights situation in the country makes cooperation a challenging task for the international community. Norway should support the country´s human rights work by strengthening Ethiopia's internal debates on human rights, says CMI-researchers. -The best way to do this is through institutional cooperation, and close collaboration with Ethiopian partners.
Promoting human rights in ever changing contexts
News | 31 Mar 2014
Uganda's new anti-homosexuality law has disheartened the international human rights community. Would it have been possible to foresee Museveni's approval of the law? In an ideal world, actors promoting human rights can design projects and interventions and see them through with norms and laws in mind. In the real world, where politics and erratic decisions come into play, human rights work is extremely challenging.
Human rights self-monitoring: A proposal for the Northern European democracies
CMI Report | Jan 1996
This report recommends that Human Rights in Developing Countries adopt a radically new approach to monitoring human rights. The "old way" is ...
Human rights
Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers
Edited Book | Dec 2007
This edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners to address the question as to whether, in our globalised world, the protection ...
Human rights, Developing countries
Human Rights and Assigned Duties: Implications for Corporations
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2007
Human rights imply duties. The question is, duties for whom? Without a well-defined scheme for assigning duties correlative to human rights, ...
Human rights, Duties, Business ethics, Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Human rights-based approaches to development: Concepts, evidence, and policy
Journal Article | Oct 2012
This article aims to organize thinking around human rights-based approaches to development (HRBAs) and to review available empirical evidence ...
human rights, development, courts
Citizenship, statelessness, and human rights protection in Sudan's constitutions and post South Sudan secession challenges
Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian ...
Sudan, South Sudan
Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery
Project | Dec 2013 - Dec 2015
Operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery (RBA-healthdelivery) is a joint effort by CMI, The World Bank Institute ...
right to health, health system reform, right based approach, health care delivery
Litigating the Right to Health
Programme | Jan 2008 - Jan 2012
Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy?
The project investigates whether litigation can ...
Health rights, courts, health rights litigation, public interest litigation, social rights jurisprudence, health policy, health economics, medical ethics, priority setting, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, South Africa
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004
Project | Jan - Dec 2004
Human rights have been an important area of research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) for the past 20 years, and continue to be so today. ...
Human rights
Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity
Book Chapter | Jan 2013
This chapter explores how women’s rights and obligations are understood and negotiated within the context of an Islamic state in Sudan. ...
Sudan
The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform (COST Action IS 0702)
Project | Jan 2009 - Dec 2012
The United Nations is involved in the promotion of human rights in a number of areas, particularly through the Office of the High Commissioner ...
European Union, United Nations, Human Rights, Global
When "participation" isn't participatory: current health reforms in colombia
Journal Article | Jan 2009
Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social ...
The Human Right to Water: Theory, Practice and Prospects
Edited Book | Jan 2017
In a short space of time, the right to water has emerged from relative obscurity to claim a prominent place in human rights theory and practice. ...
Children's Rights in Norway
Book | Jan 2019
Norway tops international indexes on children’s rights but continues to attract criticism for its level of compliance with the Convention ...
Children's rights, Human rights
Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health
Journal Article | Jan 2009
In a rights framework, participation is inextricably related to power. Through effective participation, we can challenge political and other ...