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What’s in a Name?: Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Dignity
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David L. Richards Over the past decades, the terms ‘human rights’ and ‘human development’ have been characterized as being: complementary to one another, purposefully distinct from one another, or synonymous for one another...

Capitalism Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development
Blog
Interview with David Richards – How to Measure Human Development?

21 September 2012 The intricate dynamic between foreign aid to Africa, democratic transitions and consolidation is the topic of a series of research papers being published under the ReCom Governance & Fragility theme ...

Economic development Poverty measurement Methodology (Economics)
Blog
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment Workers
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Alisa DiCaprio Innovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade...

Employee rights Human rights Labour law
Book Chapter
Työntekijöiden oikeudet ja sosiaaliturva Kambodzassa

A Book Chapter in Joona Pietarila (ed.) Kambodza kriisien jälkeen. Kirjoituksia yhteiskunnan kehityksestä ja tulevaisuuden haasteista...

Human rights Social security
Working Paper
The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning Economy: Lessons for Developing Countries

Although Denmark shares with the other four Nordic countries certain attributes, such as pragmatic protestant religion, small and homogenous population, strong social democratic parties and ambitious welfare states, it also has its own characteristic...

Economic development Economic growth Economic policy
Book Chapter
The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid

From the book: Making Peace Work

Conflict management Economic development projects Equality and inequality
Policy Brief
Can We Eradicate Hunger?

World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the world by 2015...

Food security Human rights Hunger
Book
Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Do we have a right to food?...

Agriculture Food security Human rights
Book Chapter
Realizing the Right to Food in South Asia

From the book: Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Agriculture and state Food security Food supply
Book Chapter
The Right to Food as a Fundamental Human Right: FAO's Experience

From the book: Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Food security Human rights International agencies
Working Paper
Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in Delivering the Expected Outcome

Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus...

Food security Government accountability Human rights
Working Paper
Realizing the Right to Food in South Asia

Basic human rights recognize the intrinsic value of freedom, only not for the value of freedom itself, but also for its instrumental role enabling an individual to choose a bundle of commodities and wellbeing...

Agriculture and state Food security Food supply
Working Paper
The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid

Based on analysing World Bank and other donor post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) loans and grants from rights-based, macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives, we conclude that few PCR projects identify or address gender discrimination issues...

Conflict management Economic development projects Equality and inequality
Working Paper
State Recognition of the Right to Food at the National Level

This paper considers to what extent the human right to food has been recognized by countries in the world, by analysing international obligations and constitutional provisions, bearing in mind that the right to food may be either explicitly or implic...

Food security Human rights International law
Book Chapter
Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking and Organized Crime

From the book: Poverty, International Migration and Asylum

Emigration and immigration Human rights Corruption
Book Chapter
Iraqi Asylum Migrants in Jordan: Conditions, Religious Networks and the Smuggling Process

From the book: Poverty, International Migration and Asylum

Emigration and immigration Human rights Religion
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