This Opinion asks why children's rights remain largely 'invisible' on the international agenda and sets out measures to address this invisibility. All but two countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but the Opinion questions the significance of this apparent consensus and calls for more resources to monitor and implement child rights.
The suggestion that trade should be considered a human right is interesting, but to be useful it needs to be developed much further. In particular it is necessary to address two key questions: What favourable features of trade would considering it as a human right help to highlight? And is it possible to identify compliant and non-compliant behaviour?
This Briefing Paper explores how social sciences methods, including the application of economic models, can help to assess government compliance with obligations on economic, social and cultural rights.
The objective of this study is to help establish more common ground between human rights and economic agendas and, more specifically, to facilitate a clearer understanding of the perspective of development economists’ regarding the relationship between human rights and pro-poor growth. The study draws on experience from country level work and realities as far as possible through interviewing key academics and practitioners.
This synthesis report pulls together the findings of a joint donor evaluation of support to citizen voice and accountability and seeks to identify common themes and lessons, core principles and key recommendations for improved donor practice, and areas worthy of further research.
This report describes how the flood management/DRR ‘sector’ in Honduras has been ‘scoped’ using tools of analysis to investigate how well (or inadequately) poor populations at risk are being served by current laws, policies and institutions.
The objective of this paper is to identify policies, programmes and legal instruments that address school violence in the developing world, and to draw implications for policy, practice and research.