Human Rights-Based Change: The Institutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367076627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 122 str.

Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso; Hans-Otto Sano

Opis

This volume seeks to provide insight into how human rights-based approaches contribute to change. It examines ways of mainstreaming and institutionalising human rights in judicial, bureaucratic and organisational processes in development work. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Failures and Successes of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Towards a Change Perspective 2. Participatory Approaches to Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication: Tentative Lessons from South African Evictions Law 3. Modernisation of Maternity Care in Malawi 4. Education in Pursuit of the Development Dream? Effects of Schooling on Indigenous Development and Rights in Bolivia 5. Mainstreaming Human Rights in Development Programmes and Projects: Experience from the Work of a United Nations Agency 6. Evidence in Demand: An Overview of Evidence and Methods in Assessing Impact of Economic and Social Rights