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Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health
Suffering and powerlessness: The significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to healthJournal Article | Jan 2009
In a rights framework, participation is inextricably related to power. Through effective participation, we can challenge political and other forms of ...
Human rights and development. The discourse in the humanities and social sciences
CMI Report | Jan 1993
The aim of this study is to review central debates on human rights within the social sciences and humanities with a view to enumerating the present state ...
Human rights, Economic development, Political development, Development aid, Reporting systems
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004
Writing Rights: Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute 1984-2004Edited Book | Jan 2005
Human rights are currently an important area of research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), as they have been for the past 20 years. This anthology ...
Human rights, Economic and social rights, democracy, democratization, development, party systems, truth comissions, reconcilliation, foreign policy, courts in transition, Africa: South Africa, Zambia., Asia: Bangladesh., Americas: Latin America
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 to monitor ...
Human rights
Human Rights in Developing Countries. Yearbook 1997
Edited Book | Jan 1998
The tenth in a series of yearbooks, this edition contains articles on topical human rights issues as well as surveys of individual countries. A new feature ...
Book review of Andreassen, Bård A. and Gordon Crawford (eds.), 'Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Countries'
Book review of Andreassen, Bård A. and Gordon Crawford (eds.), 'Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Countries'Book Review | Mar 2015
Review of Andreassen, Bård A. and Gordon Crawford (eds.), ‘Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights ...
Human rights, power, civil society, General
"Legal Development and Human Rights in Uruguay: 1985-2002"
"Legal Development and Human Rights in Uruguay: 1985-2002"Journal Article | Jun 2007
This article attempts to explain why Uruguayan judges have lagged behind judges in Chile and Argentina in the prosecution of the military for human rights ...
legal development, human rights, uruguay, Uruguay
Human rights and assigned duties: Implications for corporations
Human rights and assigned duties: Implications for corporationsJournal 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, these rights ...
Human rights, business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Shades of dignity: exploring the demands of equality in applying human rights frameworks to health
Journal Article | Jan 2009
The foundational principle of human rights is that all human beings are equal in rights, dignity, and worth. Yet we live in a world ravaged by social ...
Book revew of Andreassen, Bård A. and Gordon Crawford (eds.), ‘Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Countries’
Book revew of Andreassen, Bård A. and Gordon Crawford (eds.), ‘Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Countries’Book Review | Mar 2015
Book revew of Andreassen, Bård A. and Gordon Crawford (eds.), ‘Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for ...
human rights, power, civil society, General
Rights with Bite: 20 Years of Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
Rights with Bite: 20 Years of Human Rights Research at the Chr. Michelsen Institute Ivar Kolstad a
Human rights
Pakistan
Book Chapter | Jan 1994
The chapter gives a broad overview of the state and trends of human rights in Pakistan up to 1993. It covers both civil and political rights and economic, ...
human rights, governance, development, political participation, Pakistan, South Asia
Critiques of Human Rights
Journal Article | Jan 2018
Empirical critiques of human rights have reached a crescendo. Despite their centrality in late modernity, human rights face claims of irrelevance and ...
Human Rights and Assigned Duties: Implications for Corporations
Human Rights and Assigned Duties: Implications for CorporationsCMI 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, these rights ...
Human rights, Duties, Business ethics, Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Aid for Human Rights and Democracy: Challenges of Design, Management and Evaluation
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
Aid for Human Rights and Democracy: Challenges of Design, Management and Evaluation Gunnar M. Sørb
Development aid, Human rights
Human Rights in Development. Yearbook 1998. Global Perspectives and Local Issues
Human Rights in Development. Yearbook 1998. Global Perspectives and Local IssuesEdited Book | Jan 1999
The yearbook is an on-going project between a number of research institutes, mostly in Europe. The edition is the 11th in the series. It contains articles ...
Human rights
Nepal
Book Chapter | Jan 1993
The chapter gives an overview of the state and trends of human rights in Nepal up to 1992. It covers the full range of rights from civil and political ...
Human rights, development, governance, yearbook, Nepal, South Asia
Human rights and positive corporate duties: The importance of corporate state interaction
Human rights and positive corporate duties: The importance of corporate state interactionJournal Article | Jan 2012
While it is commonly accepted that corporations have negative duties to respect human rights, the question of whether rights also imply positive duties ...
human rights, duties, obligations, responsibility, Ruggie reports, corporate social responsibility (CSR), Angola
Prospects for peace, security and human rights in Africa's Horn
Prospects for peace, security and human rights in Africa's HornEdited Book | Jan 2004
This book deals with the prospects for peaceful change, human rights and state-building in the Horn of Africa. There are few regions in the world that ...
Peace, Peace keeping, Human rights, Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda
Social Consequences of Development in a Human Rights Perspective: Lessons from the World Bank
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
Social Consequences of Development in a Human Rights Perspective: Lessons from the World Bank Alf
Human rights, Social aspects, World Bank