In October 2007, the Youth Coalition collaborated with CREA and CWGL (Centre for Women’s Global Leadership) to organize an international multigenerational dialogue, entitled Listening to Each Oth…
Pada dasarnya setiap pelanggaran hukum (pidana) yang dilakukan sipil atau aparat negara termasuk bentuk pelanggaran HAM. Namun demikian dalam Hukum HAM, negara secara jelas dikenakan sebagai pelang…
Human Rights and Health Professionals: An Education Program in the Asian Region document a holistic training seminar for health professionals engaged in human rights work and the care of torture vi…
The state of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been criticized both by Iranians and international human right activists, writers, and NGOs. The United Nations General Assembly and th…
On December 7, 2006, the Constitutional Court finally gave its decision on two petitions for a judicial review of Act No. 27/2004 on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (from hereon referred to…
The report presented here is designed to assist NHRIs to measure their own effectiveness. It was prepared through a participatory process involving members of NHRIs and establishes measurement benc…
The 4th Informal ASEM Seminar on Human Rights in Bali, Indonesia from 12th-13th July, 2001 was sponsored by France, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (Sweden) and the Asia-Europe Foundation with the s…
Sixty-six years after the founding of the United Nations, human rights looks like an insular world unto itself: A system with its own standards, institutions and mechanisms, a world of experts stil…
Reformasi 1998 adalah tonggak bersejarah untuk memancangkan kembali HAM di Indonesia, namun seberapa dekat kah kedua isu tersebut sehingga bisa berjalan beriringan dalam kehidupan masyarakat Indone…
Julie Mertus' highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system. Today, virtually all UN bodies and spe…
National institutions must be accessible, especially to people who are exposed to human rights violations or non-fulfilment of their rights. Depending on the national context, these are likely to i…
Human rights are norms that aspire to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. Examples of human rights are the right to freedom of religion, the right to a fa…
This short, practical manual is intended for documentalists and information workers of human rights organisations. It provides an overview of the subject of human rights monitoring by first discuss…
The Human Rights Fact Sheet series is published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva. It deals with selected questions of human ri…
On December 10, 2009, the day that commemorates the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued the judgment on the "Cotton Field" Cas…
Mercenaries are not a new phenomenon but have existed in a variety of forms from time immemorial. Their image has not always been as inglorious as that emerging from recent statements by the intern…
CREA empowers women to articulate, demand and access their human rights by enhancing women's leadership and building networks at the local, regional and international levels through training, advoc…
Australia’s accession to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 2008 offers a new way in which women’s human rights can be ad…
This manual is about women's human rights in practice. It describes in simple language and in a practical manner the concept and content of human rights law and its application to women and the rig…
The European Union is based on a set of shared values, including fundamental rights, democracy, and the rule of law.1 These are the bedrock of our societies and common identity. No democracy can th…