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This Report examines and provides analysis on the critical elements of effectively fostering industrialisation and hence structural transformation based on extensive review of experience with...

The present report, submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Assembly resolution 48/141, highlights some of the main achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

This is the official report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its forty-eighth and forty-ninth sessions during the period of 30 April to 18 May 2012 and 12 to 30 November...

The Yearbook series is a result of collaborative efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries, as well as the...

This book includes perspectives from a broad range of victims. including family members of the crime victims; convicted persons whose rights are violated by the justice system through wrongful...

This is the official record of the Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Eighty-fifth session (11-29 August 2014) and Eighty-sixth session (27 April-15 May 2015

The present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 48/141, provides an overview of the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at...

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee against Torture on the Fifty-third session (3-28 November 2014) and the Fifty-fourth session (20 April-15 May 2015)

This publication feeds into ongoing global efforts to better align the international investment regime with international human rights standards. It focuses on contracts between State entities and...

How to Develop a Human Rights Policy: A Guide for Business seeks to outline why companies should respect human rights, the principal reasons for adopting a human rights policy, its key components and...

Capital punishment is irrevocable. It prohibits the correction of mistakes by the justice system and leaves no room for human error, with the gravest of consequences. There is no evidence of a...

This is the official report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its fiftieth and fifty-first sessions during the period of 29 April to 17 May 2012 and 04 to 29 November 2013.

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee against Torture on the Fifty-first session (28 October–22 November 2013) and the Fifty-second session (28 April–23 May 2014).

This publication examines how the three elements of regional integration, innovation and competitiveness are interlinked. It explores the prospects for harnessing them within the framework of Africa’s...

This 4th edition of the African Governance Report provides a critique of perception-based measurements of corruption as well as an assessment of existing alternative, mostly mixed, measures of...

The 2016 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2016) focuses on greening industrialization and highlights sustainable and people-centred industrialization. Given the impacts of climate change...