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Human Rights Indicators
Oct 2013Women's Rights Are Human Rights
Feb 2015Attaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women are fundamental human rights and United Nations values. Women around the world nevertheless regularly suffer violations of their human rights throughout their life and realizing women’s human rights has not always been prioritized. Achieving equality between women and men requires a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which women experience discrimination and are denied equality so as to develop appropriate strategies to eliminate such discrimination. This publication provides an introduction to women’s human rights beginning with the main provisions in international human rights law and going on to explain particularly relevant concepts for fully understanding women’s human rights.
Human Rights and Constitution Making
Jul 2018This publication explores human rights in the context of constitution making. It notes the important role of participatory processes which should be designed to ensure that consultations with a wide variety of interest groups and vulnerable parts of the populations take place when a new constitution is drafted. It also focuses on what human rights and fundamental freedoms should be included in a constitution including civil and political rights as well as economic social and cultural rights. In addition it addresses how the rights of women children the disabled minorities and indigenous peoples can be expressed in a new constitution. Examples from over fifty different constitutions are used to illustrate how these rights can be expressed. The publication is designed for drafters of future constitutions as well as to all those who want to ensure that human rights are protected constitutionally.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
May 2013Gender Equality and Human Rights
Jul 2015There is a strong commitment to equality between women and men in international human rights law. The various actors within the treaty system who are tasked with elaborating on the meaning of human rights in international law have given close attention to gender equality. This work evaluates these elaborations against a conception of equality that is substantive. The achievement of substantive equality is understood here as having four dimensions: redressing disadvantage; countering stigma prejudice humiliation and violence; transforming social and institutional structures; and facilitating political participation and social inclusion. The publication suggests that there is a growing consensus at the international level on an understanding of substantive equality that reflects the four dimensions set out here. Making this understanding explicit will assist in addressing through a range of means the challenges of gendered inequality.
Realizing Human Rights through Government Budgets
Aug 2017This publication explores the linkages between obligations under international human rights law and budget policies and processes. It seeks to sensitize government officials to better understand their human rights obligations as they decide budget allocations implement planned expenditures and assess the budget’s impact on the realization of human rights. And it aims to provide non-governmental actors with information about the relationship of human rights to budget processes and specific budget decisions so that they are better able to hold their governments to account. This is especially important for the poorest and most marginalized groups because they are more dependent on government programmes to realize their rights than those who are better off.
World Programme for Human Rights Education
Sep 2017Human rights education makes an essential contribution to the realization of all human rights. In 2004 the General Assembly proclaimed the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing) with a view to support and encourage national action and strengthen partnerships and cooperation. The third phase (2015-2019) of the World Programme focuses on strengthening implementation of the first two phases and promoting human rights training for media professionals and journalists; adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2014 this plan of action provides practical guidance for implementing this phase nationally. It targets all stakeholders including governments national human rights institutions civil society organizations higher education institutions as well as intergovernmental organizations.
Human Rights Regimes in the Americas
Oct 2013Report of the Human Rights Committee
Feb 2019This is the official report of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly on an annual basis. This report covers the 120th (3-28 July 2017) 121st (16 October-10 November 2017) and 122nd (12 March-6 April 2018) sessions.
Report of the Human Rights Committee
Oct 2019This is the official report of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly on an annual basis. This report covers the 123rd (2-27 July 2018) the 124th (8 October-2 November 2018) and the 125th (4-29 March 2019) sessions.
Ageing, Human Rights and Public Policies
Sep 2011The book sets out the framework of rights-based social protection policies and how they apply to the particular situation of the elderly population and looks at the status of older persons in terms of income security access to health and inclusive environments. It also examines the impacts of population ageing on social protection systems pensions health and social services— and gives a general overview of the state of play of older persons’ rights in national legislations and public policies implemented in the region. The publication concludes with a summary of the main challenges that population ageing poses to the building of democratic and inclusive societies and emphasizes the need to move forward in adapting policy responses to the demographic panorama of the coming decades.
Report of the Human Rights Committee
Feb 2021This is the official report of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly on an annual basis. This report covers the 126th session (1–26 July 2019) 127th session (14 October–8 November 2019) 128th session (2–27 March 2020).
Guiding principles on business and human rights
Dec 2011The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
Dec 2012How to Develop a Human Rights Policy
Oct 2015Human Rights and Traditional Justice Systems in Africa
Aug 2016Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking
Oct 2013Integrating a Gender Perspective into Human Rights Investigations
Feb 2019This publication provides practical guidance on the integration of a gender perspective throughout the work of investigative bodies or entities from the planning phase to the investigations and to writing the report and presenting its findings. It should be read in conjunction with existing OHCHR guidance in the Manual on Human Rights Monitoring and Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-finding Missions on International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Guidance and Practice. The publication specifically aims to strengthen the content of human rights reports in order to accurately depict the different experiences of women men girls and boys. It is primarily aimed at United Nations Human Rights Officers especially those performing investigative functions including with CoIs/FFMs. It may also be used as a reference material for the human rights monitoring analysis and reporting performed by OHCHR field presences or as part of peace operations mandated by the Security Council and overseen managed and supported by OHCHR. States Parties regional mechanisms national human rights institutions national commissions of inquiry civil society organizations and others could also benefit from guidance on how to integrate a gender perspective into monitoring and investigating human rights violations and abuses.