Human rights imply duties. The question is, duties for whom? Without a well-defined scheme for assigning duties correlative to human rights, ...

This article commends the concise and useful analysis of courts and the legal enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights given in Christian ...

Guatemala suffers from high levels of undernourishment and malnutrition despite a strong political commitment to the right to food. Yet, there ...

The project analyses the strategic use of rights and law in battles over abortion rights in Latin America – and the various effects of ...

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.

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.

This report recommends that Human Rights in Developing Countries adopt a radically new approach to monitoring human rights. The "old way" is ...

This edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners to address the question as to whether, in our globalised world, the protection ...

Human rights imply duties. The question is, duties for whom? Without a well-defined scheme for assigning duties correlative to human rights, ...

This article aims to organize thinking around human rights-based approaches to development (HRBAs) and to review available empirical evidence ...

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian ...

Operationalizing a rights-based approach to health service delivery (RBA-healthdelivery) is a joint effort by CMI, The World Bank Institute ...

Right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy? The project investigates whether litigation can ...

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. ...

This chapter explores how women’s rights and obligations are understood and negotiated within the context of an Islamic state in Sudan. ...

Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social ...

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. ...

In a rights framework, participation is inextricably related to power. Through effective participation, we can challenge political and other ...

While it is commonly accepted that corporations have negative duties to respect human rights, the question of whether rights also imply positive ...

In response to the incremental creation of an expansive constitutional right to health in Costa Rica, the country’s rights-friendly constitutional ...