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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...

Part of the Professional Training Series (No. 23), this Guide aims to assist States parties by facilitating an understanding of the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and...

This training guide is designed to enable participants to understand the human rights perspective on migration, and how human rights laws and standards can be operationalized to make migration safer...

Although international human rights and humanitarian law consistently prohibit torture under any circumstance, torture and ill-treatment are practiced in more than half the world's countries. This...

This publication, the first in the series, has been developed with the specific purpose of adding to the knowledge and understanding of this important professional group in all aspects of human rights...

Elections are recognized as human rights events involving far more than ballot boxes, voter registers and campaign posters. In order to hold free and fair elections, countries sometimes seek...

This Handbook is designed to increase awareness of the international standards relating to pre-trial detention, as well as of interpretive material relating to those standards. It also provides...

This is a joint publication of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office on Counter-Terrorism. This Trainer’s Guide seeks to help trainers prepare, organize and deliver...