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Human rights

Websites
Human rights in 10 minutes short film
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT): Human Rights
Australian Agency for Interntional Development (AusAID): Human Rights
Australian Human Rights Commission
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International

Information sheets
ACFID information sheet: Human rights and development
ACFID information sheet: International law and human rights
United Nations Development Program, A practice note on poverty reduction and human rights

Human rights-based approach

Web portals
United Nations Development Group: Human rights-based approach to development programming
UN Practitioners Portal on human rights-based approach
Governance and Social Development Resource Centre on Human Rights

Guidelines
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Frequently asked questions on a human rights-based approach (2006)
United Nations Inter-Agency, Undertaking a Human Rights-based Approach: Lessons for Policy, Planning and Programming (2008)
United Nations Development Program, Human rights and the Millennium Development Goals (2007)

Case studies
United Nations, Lessons learned from rights-based approaches in the Asia-Pacific region (2005)
Oxfam/Care, Rights-based approaches: learning project (2008)

Effectiveness
United Kingdom Interagency Group, The impact of rights-based approaches to development (2007)
Overseas Development Institute, Aid effectiveness and human rights (2006)

Research papers
OECD DAC, Donor Experiences on Integrating Human Rights into Development (2005)
Oxfam, Challenges and opportunities in implementing a rights based approach to development: An Oxfam America Perspective (2003)

Programming tools on the human rights-based approach

Implementing a human
rights-based approach in programs
The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Applying a rights-based approach: an inspirational guide for civil society (2007)
UN Practitioners Portal on human rights-based approach

Human rights situation analysis
Save the Children, Child Rights Situation Analysis (2008)
Overseas Development Institute, Mapping Political Context (2006)

Empowerment
Intercooperation and Overseas Development Institute, Linkages between human rights-based approaches and empowerment (2007)
Poverty Wellbeing net on empowerment

Budget analysis
Fundar, Dignity counts: a guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights (2004)
Dialogue on Globalisation, Social and human rights budgeting (2008)
Overseas Development Institute, What’s behind the budget? (2002)

Monitoring and evaluation
Human Rights impact resource centre
The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human rights indicators at program and project level (2006)
United Nations Development Program, Indicators for human rights-based approaches (2006)

Training resources on the human rights-based approach

Training manuals
Dignity International, From Poverty to Dignity: a learning manual on human rights-based development (2007)
ICIMOD, Advocacy strategies and approaches (2008)
Canadian Human Rights Foundation, Training for human rights trainers (2001)
United Nations Philippines, Rights-based approach to development programming: training manual (2002)

PowerPoint presentation
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