A Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation and Advocacy
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This manual provides guidance on how to use a human rights framework to work for social change in the United States. The manual walks practitioners through every step in the human rights documentation process, from establishing the project and objectives to setting up the interviews to writing a report and making recommendations. Each section goes in-depth, posing questions and considerations to readers so they can best structure the process to suit their needs and resources. The manual also helps practitioners plan how to push forward recommendations using strategies from education and lobbying to litigation and international human rights mechanisms. Finally, the manual helps organizations understand how they can use human rights in their work for social change. The Advocates produced this manual at the request of the US Human Rights Network and with funding from the U.S. Human Rights Fund.
Cost: $25.00
Discover Human Rights: A Human Rights Approach to Social Justice
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A growing segment of U.S. civil society is turning to human rights to secure social, policial, and economic objectives that they have sought for decades. To strengthen the capacity of all organizations to use human rights to combat entrenched poverty, discrimination, and injustice, The Advocates for Human Rights has developed this manual and accompanying training. Discover Human Rights: A Human Rights Approach to Social Justice helps advocates and activists translate the international human rights framework into practical reality. Intended for U.S.-based social justice advocates and activists, Discover Human Rights provides concrete steps for integrating international human rights principles into social justice work.
Cost: $25.00 for hard copy, available free for download
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Global Child Survival: A Human Rights Priority: Case Studies of Uganda, Mexico, and United States
In developing and developed countries alike, more than 12 million children under the age of five die each year as a result of inadequate health services, violence, malnutrition, unsafe water, and lack of other basice necessities. These deaths constitute an unspeakable tragedy and must be recognized as a gross violation of fundamental human rights. This report tackles the serious issue of preventable child mortality and emphasizes that all rights -- civil, political, economic, social and cultural -- must be promoted and protected in order to ensure the health and survival of children. 1999 Cost: $15.00
0-929293 35-5 Handbook on Human Rights in Situations of Conflict This Handbook is a valuable resource for attorneys, educators, and United Nations and other human rights professionals. It serves as a guide for using human rights norms and methods to prevent the escalation of conflict. The annexes comprise over 200 pages of the book, including a comprehensive overview of the UN, regional organizations and multilateral arrangements, and a directory of human rights organizations around the world. 1997 Cost: $15.00
No ISBN International Law and Non - Intervention: When Do Humanitarian Concerns Supersede Sovereignty? 1993 Cost: Free
No ISBN The Minnesota Plan: Recommendations for Preventing Gross Human Rights Violations in Kosovo Details the severe repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and gives recommendations for the international community to prevent an escalation of conflict and further abuses of human rights in this region of the former Yugoslavia. 1993 Cost: $5.00
92-1 130142-4 Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (Minnesota Protocol) The result of several years of analysis, research and drafting undertaken because of the extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions throughout the world. The manual, greatly facilitated by The Advocates, provides technical advice for meaningful implementation of the Principles adopted by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in the February 1990 session in Vienna. 1991 Hard copies available in Arabic and French. Cost: $7.50
No ISBN Human Rights In the World Community: Issues and Action Book Review. 1990 Cost: Free
No ISBN Assisting Indigent Political Asylum Seekers in the United States: A model for volunteer legal assistance Reprint of article published in the Hamline Law Review by Barbara Frey. 1990 Cost: Free
No ISBN The Minnesota Center for Victims of Torture: Setbacks and Advances for a Proposed American Model Treatment Program Reprint of article in Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy by Barbara Frey. 1987 Cost: Free