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ADVANCED STUDIES ON HRBA

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Human Rights-Based Approach

Maria Socorro I. DioknoJuly 2014

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I. Objectives

Advanced Studies in HRBA is a three-month course that builds HRBA training experts and advocates among development practitioners. At the end of this course, participants should be able to:

1. DefineHRBA, compare and contrast it againstother development approaches;

2. Explain all elements of HRBA: a. Define a specific right, discuss the right’s

normative content and relate these to development and governance;

b. Identify corresponding obligations and relate these to development and governance;

c. Identify and explain human rights violations; d. Synthesize and explain the human rights

responsibilities of the private sector in the context of development and governance;

e. Interpret and explain each PANTHER principle and integrate these principles into capacity building activities.

3. Develop their own human rights tools which they can use for future capacity development activities;

4. Developspecificstrategiesfortrainingneedsanalysis,curriculum development and training management;

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5. Demonstrate basic training skills related to using multiple learner-centered methods, facilitating groups and training documentation and evaluation.

II. Outline

A. Introduction to the Course (Day 1, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon)

1. Introduction of Participants and Facilitator 2. Course Objectives and Outline 3. Required Readings 4. Templates 5. Focal Rights/Focus of Expertise 6. Note Taking

Ms. Socorro Diokno introducing the HRBA workshop.


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7. Assignments a. Take Home Assignment A:

i. Read required readings. ii. Use Template 1: The Basics of Human

Rights to organize your notes.iii. Reduce your notes into a single,

powerful message about human rights. b. Take Home Assignment B:

i. Read required readings. Based on yourreadingsandnotes,fillinthefirstthree sections of Template 2: Guide to Philippine Human Rights Framework.

ii. Choose one (1) law or instrument and prepare an outline for a 10-minute presentation/discussion before the community.

A participant presenting an outline of discussion for a human right law she has chosen.

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B. Basic Human Rights (Day 2, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment A 2. Classes of Human Rights 3. Restrictions and Limitations 4. Key Human Rights Principles 5. Human Rights Duties and Responsibilities

C. Philippine Human Rights Framework – Part 1 (Day 2, 1:00 – 4:00 pm)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment B 2. 1987 Philippine Constitution 3. Philippine human rights laws 4. Customary international human rights law

The Training proper starts with the question “What is Human Rights?” to be answered in one word or a phrase by all the participants.


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5. Take Home Assignment: a. Read required readings. b. Based on your readings and notes,

complete Template 2: Guide to Philippine Human Rights Framework.

c. Choose one (1) development issue and prepare an outline for a 15 minute presentation discussing the issue in the context of the human rights treaty before the community.

D. Philippine Human Rights Framework – Part 2 (Day 3, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment 2. ICCPR 3. ICESCR 4. CRC

One workshop group dramatized the rights of a mother and her baby.

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5. CEDAW 6. CAT 7. CERD 8. CMW 9. CRPD 10. Take Home Assignment:

a. Read required readings. Based on your readingsandnotes,fillinfirsttwosectionsofTemplate 3: Guide to Select Human Rights.

b. Together with other co-trainers who have chosen the same right as you, and as a group of experts on the selected right, prepare a 20 minute activity to introduce the right and its normative contents to the community.

A workshop group dramatizing violence against women.


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E. Rights, Freedoms and Entitlements (Day 4, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment/Activity Presentations

2. Factors that Affect Normative Elements 3. Take Home Assignment:

a. Read required readings. Based on your readings and notes, complete Template 3: Guide to Select Human Rights.

b. Together with other co-trainers who have chosen the same right as you, and as group of experts on the select right, prepare a 20 minute activity to introduce obligations associated with the right to the community.

Presentation of assignments introducing obligations associated with the right to the community.

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F. Human Rights Obligations (Day 5, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment/Activity Presentations

2. Obligations of Conduct and Result 3. Nature and Levels of State Obligations 4. Violations of Human Rights 5. Take Home Assignment A:

a. Read required readings. Based on your readingsandnotes,fillinTemplate4:GuidingPrinciples on Business and Human Rights.

Divided in 4 groups, each group of trainees made an artwork showing human rights obligations and duties.


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b. Analyze a business operating in your area by using the Guiding Principles.

6. Take Home Assignment B: a. Read required readings. Based on your

readings and notes, fill in Template 5:Quick Guide to PANTHER Principles.

G. Human Rights Duties of Other Actors (Day 6, 9:00 – 12:00 am)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment/Presentation of analysis

2. Respect 3. Protect 4. Remedy

A workshop to present problems or issues identifiable to eachPANTHER category.

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H. Human Rights (PANTHER) Principles (Day 6, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

1. Participation2. Accountability3. Nondiscrimination4. Transparency5. Human Dignity6. Empowerment7. Rule of Law

8. Take Home Assignment: a. Read required readings. b. Based on your readings and notes,

develop a skeletal framework on HRBA for mining operations in the country.

A workshop group presenting their skeletal framewok on HRBA.


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I. Human Rights Based Approach: Theory and Practice (Day 7, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Historical Antecedents 2. GenerallyAcceptedDefinition3. Dual Dimensions 4. Current Practices 5. Limitations and Constraints 6. Value Added 7. Skeletal Framework Presentations 8. Take Home Assignment:

a. Read required readings. b. Develop your own tool of analysis;

you may create an entirely new tool or you may choose and combine elements from different tools or you may adapt an existing tool.

J. HRBA Tools and Methodologies (Day 8, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Assessment and Indicator Setting 2. Goal and Target Setting 3. Strategy Development and Review 4. Monitoring and Evaluation

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5. Tool presentations 6. Take Home Assignment

K. Learner Centered Training for Human Rights and Development - Part 1 (Day 9, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment 2. Learner Centered Training Processes and

Management 3. Training Needs Analysis 4. Curriculum Development 5. Learner Centered Training Approaches and

Methods 6. Take Home Assignment

UP instructor Thelma Magcuro, discussing the topic “Training Process”.


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L. Learner Centered Training for Human Rights and Development - Part 2 (Day 10, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

1. Review of Take Home Assignment 2. Facilitating groups 3. Training Materials 4. Training Documentation and Evaluation 5. Preparation for Practicum 6. Take Home Assignment: Prepare for your

practicum.

UP Professor Leticia S. Tojos, Ph. D., lectured on the topic “Training Needs Analysis”.

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M. Practicum: HRBA in the Community (Day 11, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm)

N. Evaluation of Practicum and Closing (Day 12, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm)

1. Self-Evaluation 2. Evaluation by Co-Trainers 3. Evaluation by Facilitator and Resource

Persons 4. Distribution of Certificates of Satisfactory

Completion

PracticumwasthefinalpartoftheTraining.Onegroupconductedit in Navotas City with the people in the communities as their participants. The other group did it in the University of the Philippines with the employees and workers of the University as their participants. Photo above shows a group of practicumers discussing HRBA.


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II. Required Readings

A. Basic Human Rights:

1. Steiner, Henry J. and Alston, Phillip. International Human Rights in Context. 1996. Chapter 4: What are rights, Are they everywhere, and everywhere the same? Cultural relativism.

2. Anderlini, Sanam Naraghi and Shoemaker, Jolynn. “Human Rights.” Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action. 2004 (Updated 2007).

Another group of practicumers in Navotas discussing PANTHER principles.

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3. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. “Human Rights.” First published Fri Feb. 7, 2003; substantive revision Tue Aug 24, 2010.

4. Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

5. International Council on Human Rights Policy. Taking Duties Seriously: Individual Duties in International Human Rights Law. 1999.

B. Philippine Human Rights Framework – Part 1:

1. Steiner, Henry J. and Alston, Phillip. International Human Rights in Context. 1996. Chapter 2: International Law Concepts and Doctrinal Background Relevant to the Human Rights Movement.

2. UnitedNationsOfficeoftheHighCommissionerfor Human Rights. Fact Sheet No. 2 (Rev. 1), The International Bill of Human Rights.

3. 1987 Constitution. 4. The Magna Carta of Women. 5. Anti-Torture Act of 2007. 6. Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive

Health Act of 2012.


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7. Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012.

8. Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2012.

9. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 10. Declaration on the Right to Development. 11. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 12. Draft Guiding Principles: Extreme Poverty and

Human Rights: The Rights of the Poor. UN Doc. A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36. 24 August 2006.

C. Philippine Human Rights Framework – Part 2:

1. UnitedNationsOfficeoftheHighCommissionerfor Human Rights. Fact Sheet No. 2 (Rev. 1), The International Bill of Human Rights.

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

3. First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

4. Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.

5. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

6. Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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7. Optional Protocol on Involvement of Children inArmedConflict.

8. Optional Protocol on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

9. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

10. Optional Protocol to Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

11. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

12. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

13. International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.

14. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol.

D. Rights, Freedoms and Entitlements:

1. Right to Adequate Food

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment


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No. 12, “The right to adequate food (Art. 11).” UN Doc. E/C.12/1999/5. 1999.

b. De Schutter, Olivier. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. Building Resilience: A Human Rights Framework for World Food and Nutrition Security. UN Doc. A/HRC/9/23. 8 September 2008.

c. De Schutter, Olivier. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. Addendum. UN Doc. A/HRC/10/5/Add.2. 4 February 2009.

d. De Schutter, Olivier. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Trade and Investment Agreements. UN Doc. A/HRC/19/59/Add.5. 19 December 2011.

e. De Schutter, Olivier. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter. UN Doc. A/HRC/19/59. 26 December 2011.

f. Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security.

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g. United Nations Office of the HighCommissioner for Human Rights and Food and Agriculture Organization. The Right to Adequate Food. Fact Sheet No. 34.

h. Coomans, Fons. “Agrarian Reform as a Human Rights Issue in the Activities of the United Nations Human Rights Bodies and Specialised Agencies.” 2006.

2. Right to Adequate Housing

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 4, “ The right to adequate housing (Art. 11 (1) of the Covenant).” UN Doc. E/1992/23. 1991.

b. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 7, “The right to adequate housing (art. 11(1) of the Covenant) forced evictions.” UN Doc. E/1998/22, annex I. 1997.

c. The Pinheiro Principles. United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons.


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d. Kothari, Miloon. Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Miloon Kothari. UN Doc. A/HRC/4/18, 5 February 2007.

e. United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 18/… Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living in the Context of Disaster Settings. UN Doc. A/HRC/19/L.4. 12 March 2012.

f. Rolnik, Raquel. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living. UN Doc. A/66/270. 5 August 2011.

g. Rolnik, Raquel. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and on the Right to Non-discrimination in this Context, Raquel Rolnik. UN Doc. A/HRC/19/53. 26 December 2011.

h. United Nations Office of the HighCommissioner for Human Rights and United Nations Human Settlements

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Program (UN HABITAT). The Right to Adequate Housing, Fact Sheet No. 21 (Rev. 1). November 2009.

i. United Nations Human Settlements Program and United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Indigenous Peoples’ Right toAdequate Housing: A Global Overview. 2005.

3. Right to Education

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 11, “Plans of action for primary education (art. 14).” UN Doc. E/C.12/1999/4. 1999.

b. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 13, “The right to education (art. 13).” UN Doc. E/C.12/1999/10. 1999.

c. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 1, “The aims of education,” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. II). 2001.


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d. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 4, “Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. II). 2003.

e. United Nations Human Rights Committee. General Comment 20, “Article 7 (Prohibition of torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment).” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. I). 1992.

f. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 8, “The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia).” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. II). 2006.

g. United Nations Committee on Racial Discrimination. General Recommendation XXIX, “On article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent).” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. II). 2002.

h. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 11,

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“Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention.” UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/11. 2009.

i. Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. UN Doc. A/65/162. 23 July 2010.

j. Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. UN Doc. A/66/269. 5 August 2011.

4. Right to Highest Attainable Standard of Health

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 14, “The right to the highest attainable standard of heath (art. 12).” UN Doc. E/C.12/2000/4. 2000.

b. United Nations Committee on Discrimination against Women. General Recommendation 24, “Article 12 of the Convention (Women and health).” UN Doc. A/54/38/Rev. 1, chap. I. 1999.

c. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 4, “Adolescent health and development


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in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. II). 2003.

d. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 11, “Indigenous children and their rights under the Convention.” UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/11. 2009.

e. United Nations Committee on Discrimination against Women. General Recommendation 21, “Equality in marriage and family relations.” UN Doc. A/49/38. 1994.

f. United Nations General Assembly. Resolution 17/… The Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health. UN Doc. A/HRC/17/L.16. 10 June 2011.

g. Grover, Anand. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health. Expert Consultation on Access to Medicines as a Fundamental Component of the Right to Health. UN Doc. A/HRC/17/43. 16 March 2011.

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h. Grover, Anand. Thematic Study on the Realization of the Right to Health of Older Persons by the Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health, Anand Grover. UN Doc. A/HRC/18/37. 4 July 2011.

i. Grover, Anand. Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health. UN Doc. A/66/254. 3 August 2011.

j. United Nations Office of the HighCommissioner for Human Rights and World Health Organisation. The Right to Health. Fact Sheet No. 31.

5. Right to Social Security

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 19, “The right to social security (art. 9).” UN Doc. E/C.12/GC/19. 2007.


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6. Right to Water and Sanitation

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 15, “The right to water (arts. 11 and 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. I). 2002.

b. Guissé, El Hadji. Realization of the right to drinking water and sanitation: Report of the Special Rapporteur, El Hadji Guissé, UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2005/25, 11 July 2005.

c. de Albuquerque, Catarina. Report of the independent expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Doc. A/HRC/12/24, 1 July 2009.

d. de Albuquerque, Catarina. Report of the independent expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Doc. A/HRC/15/31, 29 June 2010.

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7. Right to Work

a. United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. General Comment No. 18, “The right to work.” UN Doc. E/C.12/GC/18. 2005.

b. United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. General Comment 11, “Adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. II). 2003.

c. ILO Convention 29, Forced Labor Convention. 1930.

d. ILO Convention 87, Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention. 1948.

e. ILO Convention 88, Employment Service Convention. 1948.

f. ILO Convention 98, Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention. 1949.

g. ILO Convention 100, Equal Remuneration Convention. 1951.

h. ILO Convention 105, Abolition of Forced Labor Convention. 1957.


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i. ILO Convention 111, Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention. 1958.

j. ILO Convention 122, Employment Policy Convention. 1962.

k. ILO Convention 138, Minimum Age Convention. 1973.

l. ILO Convention 159, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention. 1983.

m. ILO Convention 182, Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention. 1999.

E. Human Rights Obligations:

1. Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 1985.

2. Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 1997.

3. Alston, Phillip and Quinn, Gerard. “The Nature and Scope of States Parties’Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 2. May, 1987.

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4. Robertson, Robert E. “Measuring State Compliance with the Obligation to Devote the “Maximum Available Resources” to Realizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 16. 1994.

F. Human Rights Duties of Other Actors:

1. Ruggie, John. “Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights.” Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. , 7 April 2008. UN Doc. A/HRC/8/5.

2. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect,Respect andRemedy’Framework.21 March 2011. Endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 16 June 2011. UN Doc. A/HRC/17/31.

G. Human Rights (PANTHER) Principles:

1. United Nations Human Rights Committee. General Comment 25, “Article 25 (Participation


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in public affairs and the right to vote).” UN Doc. HRI/GEN/1/Rev.9 (Vol. I). 1996.

2. National Economic and Development Authority. HRBA To Development Planning Toolkit. Human Rights PANTHER Principles in Development Planning. (2010)

3. Gaventa, John. “Finding the Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis.” IDS Bulletin, Volume 37, Number 6. November 2006.

4. Luttrell, Cecilia, Bird, Kate, Byrne, Sarah, Carter, Sarah and Chakravarti, Devanshu. “The Power Cube Explained.” November 2007.

H. Human Rights Based Approach: Theory and Practice:

1. Uvin, Peter. Human Rights and Development. 2004.

2. Steiner, Henry J. and Alston, Phillip. International Human Rights in Context. 1996. Chapter 16: Development and Human Rights.

3. Overseas Development Institute. “What can we do with a rights based approach to development?” 1999.

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4. UnitedNationsOfficeoftheHighCommissionerfor Human Rights. “Primer on Human Rights in Development: Rights Based Approaches.”

I. HRBA Tools and Methodologies:

National Economic and Development Authority. HRBA to Development Planning Toolkit. 2010.

1. HRBA to Assessment 2. HRBA to Goal Setting 3. HRBA to Target and Indicator Setting 4. HRBA to Strategy development and Review 5. HRBA to Monitoring and Evaluation 6. HRBA to HIV-AIDs Programmig


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