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Independent legal professionals play a fundamental role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need to have access to information on the...

The publication presents human rights training methodology developed on the basis of the experience gained by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) throughout the...

This manual is one component of a two-part package of materials for training on human rights monitoring for UN human rights officers and other human rights monitors. This training manual provides...

This Trainer’s Guide provides session outlines on a full range of human rights topics, group exercises, and instructions and tips for trainers. It also includes a number of training tools such as...

The 2017 Commodities and Development Report investigates the transmission channels through which commodity dependence affects micro- and macro-level development outcomes, examines long-term commodity...

Smallholder farmers constitute the largest contingent of the poor and yet they produce more than 80 per cent of the world's food, in value terms. Though there are marked differences by country and...

The Commodities and Development Report 2012, released during the 13th session of UNCTAD, shows that developing countries suffer from high prices for commodities and food, in particular Least Developed...

This report highlights pathways to economic diversification in commodity-dependent developing countries in an environment where decarbonization of the global economy has become the overarching...

This Training Guide seeks to assist States parties in meeting their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the rights enshrined in the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced...

This guide was developed in the context of the OHCHR Treaty Body Capacity Building Programme, established by General Assembly Resolution 68/268 to support States parties in building their capacity to...

If effectively designed and implemented, human rights training builds the capacity of individuals, groups and institutions for greater human rights protection. Based on its expanding training practice...

This guide was developed in the context of the OHCHR Treaty Body Capacity Building Programme, established by General Assembly Resolution 68/268 to support States parties in building their capacity to...

This Manual provides in-depth information on sources, systems and standards for human rights relating to the work of prison officials, practical recommendations, topics for discussion, case studies...

This Compilation is one component of the four-part publication Human Rights and Prisons—a human rights training package for prison officials. The four components are designed to complement each other...

This Pocketbook of International Rights Standards is designed to be a readily accessible and portable reference for prison officials, containing a comprehensive collection of point-form standards...

This Trainer's Guide is one component of the four-part publication Human Rights and Prisons: a human rights training package for prison officials. The four components are designed to complement each...

This handbook’s aim is to assist national human rights institutions in the development of policies, processes and skills to integrate economic, social and cultural rights further into their work. It...

Commodity dependence is a trap: once a country is commodity dependent, it is difficult to develop a productive sector out of commodities and export non-commodity products. This publication argues that...

With hundreds of references to the jurisprudence of United Nations human rights mechanisms, this handbook provides human rights and electoral practitioners with a clear picture of the close interplay...

This report explores key aspects of the two-way relationship between commodities and climate change, discusses the concept of natural resource conversion and explores its application to renewable and...