Universal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development: General Survey concerning the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202)
Resources - Author: ILO / Year: 2019
The ILO’s General Survey 2019 , compiled by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR). The Survey (published under the title Universal social protection for human dignity, social justice and sustainable development) focuses on the ILO’s Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), which calls for...
Read MoreThe Aarhus Convention: an implementation guide
Resources - Author: Fiona Marshall, Helmut Gaugitsch, Jerzy Jendroska, Jonas Ebbesson, Stephen Stec / Year: 2014
The Aarhus Convention, which is open for global accession, offers powerful twin protections for the environment and human rights. It provides an effective model for ensuring public input in defining and implementing green economy programmes, in choosing the most appropriate road maps to sustainability and for increasing transparency and...
Read MoreConvention on Access to Information, Public Participation and Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
Legal depository - Year: 1998
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters was adopted on 25 June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus (Århus) at the Fourth Ministerial Conference as part of the “Environment for Europe” process. It...
Read MoreThe Need for Transparency: Designing Rights-Based and Accountable Social Protection Systems
Expert commentaries - Date: 12 April 2018 / Author: Rasmus Jensen Schjødt
A human rights-based approach to social protection requires transparency, accountability and accessibility to be an integral part of the design of policies and programmes. However, policy makers often do not consider whether social protection programmes enable or hinder human rights; focusing instead on issues such as cost effectiveness, distributional...
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Universal Periodic Review Sexual Rights Database
Resources - Year: 2017
The Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council is a process to review each of the 193 Member States of the UN on its entire human rights record every four and a half years. This database allows you to access and search all the sexual rights...
Read MorePartnership Schools for Liberia: a critical review
Resources - Author: Tyler Hook / Year: 2017
This report reviews and analyses documents related to the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) pilot. It particularly highlights the Baseline Report conducted by Innovations for Poverty Actions (IPA) (2017), and the Coalition for Transparency and Accountability in Education (COTAE) monitoring report (2017). The analysis focuses on three key areas:...
Read MoreLey 26.873
Legal depository - Country: Argentina / Year: 2013
Establece acciones de promoción de la lactancia materna exclusiva y prácticas óptimas de alimentación en niños hasta los seis meses de edad, así como también la promoción de la lactancia materna continuada y alimentación complementaria oportuna para niños de hasta dos años de vida. Dentro de la ley se...
Read MoreAffordable Housing in South Africa
Legal depository - Country: South Africa / Body: Guateng Division, High Court of South Africa / Year: 2015
Nature of the Case: The case concerns a landlord’s profit-making by levying electrical service charges on tenants over and above the rent and the actual cost of electricity they consumed. The court characterized the Rental Housing Tribunal’s ruling in the initial complaint as administrative action and reviewed it to...
Read MoreEqual access to health and family planning information for all women in Hungary
Legal depository - Country: Hungary / Body: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women / Year: 2006
The communication was filed with regards to the alleged forced sterilization of an ethnic Roma woman by medical staff pursuant to an emergency caesarian section that was required to remove a deceased fetus. The Committee found that previous medical care, the poor medical condition of the victim, A.S., upon...
Read MoreThe Human Rights Approach to Social Protection
Resources - Author: Carly Nyst, Magdalena Sepúlveda /
This report sets out to elaborate and promote a human rights framework for social protection, identifying best practices and disseminating lessons learned. It provides an in-depth analysis of the application of central human rights principles of the human rights framework – equality and non-discrimination (including accessibility, acceptability, affordability and the incorporation...
Read MoreA Rejoinder to ‘Pro-Poor and Pro-Development Transparency’
Expert commentaries - Date: 15 Apr 2014 / Author: Charles Lwanga-Ntale
Charles Lwanga-Ntale, Africa Regional Director at Development Initiatives
Read MoreAccess to information about beneficiaries to ensure social accountability of state decisions
Legal depository - Country: Argentina / Body: Argentina - Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación), Supreme Courts / Year: 2014
Summary: CIPPEC (Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento ) has been denied access to information concerning the beneficiaries of subsidies and social cash transfer programs in 2006 and 2007. The Supreme Court considered that accessing such data has a clear public interest, since it enables...
Read MoreEnsure Transparency and Access to Information
Element (5) of the Framework for Human Rights-Based Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Social Protection Programmes
Read MoreForced evictions and violations of rights recognized by regional and international instruments in Kenya
Legal depository - Country: Kenya / Body: Other Domestic Courts / Year: 2011
Summary: The case was brought before the High Court of Kenya by Hakijamii, a human rights organisation in Nairobi, based on the request of over 1,000 individuals. They included women, children and older persons who reported having been evicted from their homes in Garissa municipality. The homes were built...
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