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A Guide for Non-Governmental Agencies Reporting to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 1998, Children Rights Information Network
This guide provides detailed recommendations for Non-Governmental Organization on how to prepare effective national reports for the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The guide was produced with the financial assistance of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

A Guide for Non-Governmental Organizations on the Implementation of the United Nations Migrant Workers' Convention. 2005, December 18 Network
This guide aims at enabling national or regional non-governmental organizations, coalitions and individual organizations to effectively use the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families as a tool for the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant workers and their families.

A Guide to Jurisprudence on Torture and Ill-treatment: Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights. 2002, Association for the Prevention of Torture
This brochure is the first in a series of five publications, which will form a guide to the main jurisprudence in international law concerning torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment. It aims to give an in-depth commentary on the leading jurisprudence and approach taken by the judicial and quasi-judicial bodies.

A Handbook on State Obligations Under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. 2002, Association for the Prevention of Torture
This handbook aims to provide easily accessible, yet comprehensive information about the substantive provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to people concerned with the issue of torture.

A Handbook on Working with Political Parties . 2004, United Nations Development Programme [ UNDP Publication ]
This handbook assesses the rationale for working with parties, and looking at the evolution of party assistance, inside and outside UNDP. It offers basic information for understanding political systems, from their mechanics to the challenges faced by parties, with passages as well on post-conflict scenarios and local governance.

A Manual for Integrating Gender into Reproductive Health and HIV Programs: From Commitment to Action [in French]. 2003, United States Agency for International Development
This Manual aims to orient program managers and technical staff on how to integrate gender concerns into program design, implementation, and evaluation. It promotes greater understanding of how gender relations and identities affect individuals’ and groups’ capacity to negotiate and obtain better RH/HIV/AIDS decisions and outcomes.

A World Fit for Children. 2002, United Nations' Children Fund
The documents in this small book constitute an essential guidebook for all those working to improve the lives of children and young people. These documents are a resource for all those working for peace and security, as children are at the heart of those efforts as well.

Accelerating Change: Resources for Gender Mainstreaming. 2000, Candadian International Development Agency
This manual is the tangible resource that emerged from the proceedings of the Technical Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming, Sanur, Indonesia, February 20-25, 2000. The manual is intended to be a practical resource for those engaged in mainstreaming gender equality in a variety of contexts.

Accelerating Progress in Girls' Education. 2003, United Nations' Children Fund
This booklet describes how the United Nations' Children Fund (UNICEF) is concentrating resources, intensifying interventions and working closely with national governments and a wide range of partners to reach out-of-school girls in 25 'acceleration' countries.

Achieving Dignity: Campaigner's Handbook for the Migrants Rights Convention. 1998, December 18 Network
This handbook aims to help organizers take action to build local and national activities and campaigns to ensure that basic international human rights standards are implemented country by country to protect the lives and dignity of migrants.

Adolescence: A Time that Matters. 2002, United Nations' Children Fund
Adolescence is one of the most complex transitions of life. During adolescence, young people establish their emotional and psychological independence, learn to understand and manage their sexuality and consider their future role in society. This booklet provides valuable insight on the importance of a supportive and healthy environment for adolescents along with recommendations on how to provide this type of environment.

An Information Guide - Preventing Discrimination, Exploitation and Abuse of Women Migrant Workers. International Labour Organization
This Information Guide aims to enhance knowledge and understanding of the vulnerability of migrant workers, especially women, to discrimination, exploitation and abuse and to promote and improve legislation, policies and action to prevent such discrimination.

An Overview of Proposals Addressing Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons. 2001, European Council on Refugees and Exiles
This document provides an overview of proposals addressing migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons.

Association for the Prevention of Torture's Guidelines for National Non-Governmental Organizations on Alternative Reporting to United Nations Treaty Bodies, including the Committee Against Torture. 2004, Association for the Prevention of Torture
These guidelines aim to facilitate the elaboration of documents, which are intended to influence the reporting process of treaty bodies. The use of these guidelines can make it easier to achieve effective reports.

Beyond Child Labor, Affirming Rights. 2001, United Nations' Children Fund
Child labour is a human rights violation on many different levels. A result and also a cause of poverty, child labour is a prison that withers both capabilities and potential. Beyond Child Labour shows how the United Nations' Children Fund (UNICEF) and its major partners are working to end child labour.

Bringing Equality Home: Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. 1998, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This booklet provides a collection of ‘snapshots’ of a dynamic process currently taking place around the world as societies explore ways of using the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to bring concrete improvements to women’s daily lives.

Child Protection: A Handbook for Parliamentarians. 2004, United Nations' Children Fund
This Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)/ United Nations' Children Fund (UNICEF) co-publication, launched at the IPU's 110th International Assembly in April 2004, serves as a catalyst for action, providing examples of parliamentarians' responses to the challenges of child protection and addressing 10 specific protection issues.

Combating Torture: A Manual for Action. 2001, Amnesty International
This manual brings together the standards and recommendations of the United Nations, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and other sources from around the world, as well as Amnesty International’s recommendations, concerning the prevention of torture and ill-treatment. There are chapters on the prohibition of torture under international law, safeguards in custody, conditions of detention, torture in other settings, and overcoming impunity.

Constraints on the Waging of War: An Introduction to International Humanitarian Law. 2001, International Committee of the Red Cross
The present book aims to provide some basic information about the origin, character, content and current problems of the International Humanitarian law.

Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Made Easy: Question and Answer Booklet. 2004, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This booklet provides a snapshot view of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It aims to raise awareness of the rights to which women are entitled under CEDAW so that you can use the Convention to bring about concrete improvements in the lives of Caribbean women.

Early Childhood Matters: Responses to Young Children in Post-Emergency Situations. 2005, Bernard Van Leer Foundation
Early Childhood Matters is a journal about early childhood. It looks at specific issues regarding the development of young children, in particular from a psychosocial perspective. This issue is meant to bring important information to organizations facing the needs of young children in emergency situations who otherwise would not have access to it.

Finance Development: Invest in Children. 2002, United Nations' Children Fund
This booklet shows why development efforts must focus first and foremost on freeing children from poverty. Since the foundation of an individual's health and well-being is laid during the first years of life, early childhood is the most opportune time to break the poverty cycle.

Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Women in the Public Sphere. 2004, World Bank
This book seeks to advance the gender equality discussion in the region by framing the issues in terms of economic necessity. It analyzes the potential for women’s greater economic contribution to the region’s new development model and identifies key economic and sociopolitical impediments to women’s increased labor force participation and empowerment, and it suggests a way forward in developing an agenda for change.

Gender and Development Information Kit. 2002, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This kit provides basic background information on gender, a glossary of gender terms, a concise description of gender analysis models as well as an annotated bibliography on gender for further reading. It also includes a list of Training and Research Institutes that are capable of administering research and training in this field.

Gender and Media Handbook. 2005, Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies
This manual contains critical background on the current challenges and opportunities around gender and media issues (representation, employment, ownership, and so on); contemporary activist and academic thinking on how gender issues are linked to questions around media power and social change; and advice on how to address gender issues in media institutions in order to transform organizational structures, policies and professional associations.

Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals - A Handbook for Policy Makers and Other Stakeholders. International Development Research Center
This book brings together arguments, findings and lessons from the development literature that are relevant to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from the standpoint of gender equality.

Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual. 2000, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This report combines comprehensive background information on the epidemic with step-by-step training for community members. It also responds to the demand of HIV/AIDS gender-specific requirements by helping trainers enhance their understanding about the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS.

Guide to the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. 2003, United Nations' Children Fund
This Guide is intended to assist non-governmental organizations, child protection agencies, other child rights advocates and government officials in their efforts to ensure ratification of or accession to the Optional Protocol and the treaty’s full implementation.

Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. 1999, Relief Web
This handbook aims to draw international attention to the needs of internally displaced persons, enhance protection for them, measure conditions on the ground, train staff in working with the displaced and promote compliance by governments and non-state actors with the provisions of the Guiding Principles.

Handbook for Emergencies. 2000, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This handbook provides useful guidance as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to cope with the swift and increasingly dangerous nature of fresh displacement. It stresses the importance of pre-emergency planning, as well as planning throughout every stage of a crisis and focuses on setting coordination priorities, as well as contingency and operational planning.

Handbook for Working with Refugees Who May be Torture or War Trauma Survivors. 2001, Center for Victims of Torture
This handbook provides basic content in addressing the implications of torture and war trauma experiences for refugees who are clients or workers, as well as a “starter set” of Twin Cities/metropolitan agency referrals for traumatized refugees that agencies can use in order to supplement their work.

Handbook on Integration for Policy-makers and Practitioners. 2004, Migration Policy Group - European Migration Dialogue
This handbook depicts best practices and offers lessons drawn from practices in Member States of the European Union on two kinds of integration programmes, namely introduction courses for newly arrived immigrants and recognized refugees and civic participation.

Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. 1992, The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Handbook is meant for the guidance of government officials concerned with the determination of refugee status in the various Contracting States. The segment of this Handbook on the criteria for determining refugee status breaks down and explains the various components of the definition of refugee set out in the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol.

Handbook on Voluntary Repatriation: International Protection. 1996, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This handbook, which is intended to be used with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Training Module on Voluntary Repatriation, aims to provide field staff and UNHCR partners with a practical protection tool, and to promote consistency in international refugee protection and in the practice of agencies working in this area.

Healing the Hurt: A Guide for Developing Services for Torture Survivors. 2005, Center for Victims of Torture
This publication is a multidisciplinary guide that addresses some basic considerations when working with torture survivors. It presents options for providers along a continuum of services, from implementing a helpful service component to developing a full-service torture rehabilitation program.

Helping Refugee Trauma Survivors in the Primary Care Setting. 2005, Center for Victims of Torture
This is a clinical resource that is meant for primary health care providers working with refugees or other survivors of war trauma and torture to help them ease refugees’ suffering and help them to begin the process of healing.

Human Rights in Tunisia: Options and Accomplishments - Women's Rights. 1987, TunisieINFO.
Chapter 3 of the declaration of human rights of November 7, 1987 covers the human rights of the Tunisian women.

Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors [in Arabic]. 2006, United Nations Development Programme - Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR) [ POGAR Publication ]
This guide contains all international stipulations and fundamental principles, whether at the United Nations level or at the regional level, that could be of importance to prosecutors all over the world.

International Agenda for Migration Management: Common Understandings and Effective Practices for a Planned, Balanced, and Comprehensive Approach to the Management of Migration. 2004, International Organization for Migration
The International Agenda for Migration Management offers a comprehensive overview of migration issues that need to be considered when developing a migration policy.

International Humanitarian Law: Answers to Your Questions. 2002, International Committee of the Red Cross
This publication aims to define, explain and clarify the term “International Humanitarian Law”. It seeks to explain how this law deals with conflict, provides aid to victims of conflict, and protects refugees and internally displaced persons.

Making a Difference: Strategic Communications to End Violence against Women. 2003, United Nations Development Fund for Women
The purpose of this toolkit is to share the learning of the workshop series with women’s organizations working to end violence against women around the world. Recognizing that advocacy cannot be effective without a solid communications strategy, and acknowledging the power of communications in showcasing and magnifying the effects of innovative work, this kit is intended to support advocates for ending violence against women.

Manual on Refugee Protection and the European Convention on Human Rights. 2003, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The purpose of this document is to provide the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff and partners in Europe and beyond with a convenient and practical compilation of material relating to the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (the ECHR) as it is relevant to the international protection of refugees.

Meeting the Challenges of Migration: Progress Since the International Conference on Population and Development. 2004, United Nations Population Fund
This joint publication by the International Migration Policy Programme and the United Nations Population Fund provides readers with an overview of the salient developments in migration, primarily international migration, since the adoption of the International Conference on Population and Development Plan of Action 10 years ago. It also points to some of the challenges ahead in the coming years.

Migration-Trafficking Nexus: Combating Trafficking Through the Protection of Migrants' Human Rights. 2003, Anti-Slavery International
This publication seeks to look at the issue of trafficking within a broader migration framework and to propose policies which would be effective in reducing trafficking and in preventing the human and labour rights violations to which migrant workers are so often subjected today.

Monitoring Places of Detention – A Practical Guide [in Arabic]. 2006, United Nations Development Programme - Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR) [ POGAR Publication ]
The guide is prepared for dealing with monitoring of any place of incarceration, with special focus on prisons and police stations.

Monitoring Places of Detention: A Practical Guide. 2004, Association for the Prevention of Torture
This guide aims to promote effective domestic visiting bodies, newly established or existing ones, by increasing their professionalism and thus their impact in preventing torture and improving conditions of detention. It provides advice on how to monitor in a manner that enhances effectiveness and gives guidance on issues requiring special attention, such as medical services or protection measures.

National and International Remedies for Torture: A Handbook for Sudanese Lawyers. 2005, Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
This handbook suggests a series of practical ways in which lawyers and others may meet the numerous challenges within the local justice system to access civil and criminal remedies, including legal and practical obstacles in the investigation and prosecution of torture cases and other legal impediments to the resolution of torture cases.

Operations Management Handbook for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Partners. 2003, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This new edition of Partnership: A Programme Management Handbook for The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Partners, that replaces the first edition (March 1996), is intended to provide all the necessary information to ensure an effective and efficient working partnership with UNHCR. This handbook aims to ensure a more results-oriented, integrated, effective and comprehensive approach to operations management.

Pathway to Gender Equality: The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Beijing and the Millennium Development Goals. 2004, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This booklet details in particular that gender inequalities are closely intertwined with every development challenge the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are attempting to address. It also underlines, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women must be the touchstones for realizing the potential held out by the MDGs.

Presentation, Analysis and Commentary: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Establishing the Court. 2000, Association for the Prevention of Torture
This brochure aims to provide information to the public on the existence of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and of its content as a tool that my lead its adoption, and in-turn, the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Prevention of Torture in Europe: Collected Texts. 1997, Association for the Prevention of Torture
The present brochure is the first in a series of ten booklets and a compilation of texts useful for understanding the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, such as the Convention and Protocols, the explanatory report and the rules of procedure.

Prevention of Torture in Europe: International, European and National Mechanisms to Combat Torture. 1998, Association for the Prevention of Torture
The present brochure, the second in a series of ten, aims to place the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture’s work on a broader basis and introduce existing International, European and National Mechanisms in the fight against torture.

Prevention of Torture in Europe: The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture: History, Mandate and Composition. 1999, Association for the Prevention of Torture
The present brochure, the third in a series of ten, aims at providing an overview of the work of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. It shows the specificity of this mechanism through its fundamental characteristics and its mandate and it presents the composition as well as the functioning of the Committee.

Prevention of Torture in Europe: The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture's Modus Operandi. 2002, Association for the Prevention of Torture
The present brochure, the fourth in a series of ten, aims to describe how the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture functions in the preparation, conduct and follow-up of visits to the countries.

Prevention of Torture in Europe: The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture's Standards on Police and Pre-trial Custody. 2001, Association for the Prevention of Torture
The present brochure, the fifth in a series of ten, describes the standards on police and pre-trial custody developed by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. It aims to identify fundamental and procedural safeguards for detainees and then goes on to describe standards relating to conditions generally.

Prevention of Torture in Europe: The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture's Standards Regarding Prisoners. 2001, Association for the Prevention of Torture
The present brochure, the sixth in series of ten, aims at giving an overview of the standards regarding prisoners and prison conditions developed by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture over the years.

Protecting Refugees: A Field Guide for NGOs. 1999, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Field Guide illustrates how protection concerns can follow refugees through every phase of their lives as refugees. In doing so, the Field Guide alerts NGO field workers to signs of possible protection problems during each phase of a refugee’s life and suggests specific actions that could be undertaken to address those problems.

Quality Education for All: From a Girl's Point of View. 2002, United Nations' Children Fund
This booklet explores questions regarding girls and education, major among them are: How does the content of curriculum and learning materials include or exclude girls? What healthy, safe, protective and stimulating learning environments girls to achieve? And what outcomes of basic education should be expected from girls?

Refugee Protection in International Law. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The different parts of this book address nine key legal themes of contemporary relevance to the international refugee protection regime and in particular the interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. It focuses in a detailed manner on discrete legal issues of interpretation of the 1951 Convention, bringing together expert papers on the issue.

Refugee Protection: A Guide to International Refugee Law. 2001, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This handbook aims to inform parliamentarians about the founding principles and challenges of international refugee law and also to mobilize them, as policy makers, in the implementation of the law for securing adequate protection of refugees.

Resource Guide for Gender Theme Groups. 2005, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This guide highlights many examples where Gender Theme Groups (GTGs) are providing effective and creative support to United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs). United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has prioritized mainstreaming gender in coordination mechanisms and has seen, on the ground, that where GTGs have strong leadership and consistent support from the UNCT, they can make a valuable contribution.

Standing Up for Ourselves: A Study on the Concepts and Practices of Young People's Rights to Participation. 1999,
This book is about the child's right to participate-the least understood of all children's rights. It is a guide to young people and adults so that they may increase and deepen their involvement in realizing children and young people's rights.

State of the World's Refugees 1993: The Challenge of Protection. 1993, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This book illuminates the problems of human displacement and their causes with informed analysis, detailed charts, and discussions of policy alternatives. It is also an appeal for early intervention by the international community, whose peacemaking efforts could prevent further crises before they start, and could enable millions of refugees to return safely to their homes once again.

State of the World's Refugees 1995: In Search of Solutions. 1995, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
This book examines the origins of the current crisis of human displacement and provides a comprehensive account of the way in which approaches to the problem of have changed since the end of the Cold War.

State of the World's Refugees 1997: A Humanitarian Agenda. 1997, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
In this book, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides a topical and detailed examination of the problem of forced displacement, focusing on the different groups of people who are protected and assisted by the organization and setting out a wide-ranging agenda for action.

State of the World's Refugees: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action. 2000, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Few historians have focused specifically on the issue of forced human displacement and on the development of international approaches to the problem of refugee protection and humanitarian assistance. This book attempts to address this issue by looking at the history of forced displacement in the second half of the 20th century.

Statistical Report on the Status of Egyptian Women [in Arabic]. 2004, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This book aims to provide policy and decision makers with a good tool for improving the situation of women in Egypt in the near future.

Strengthening Women's Position in Political Parties. 2003, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
This manual is based on a Training of Trainers workshop “Nominating for Change: Strengthening Women’s Position in Political Parties” delivered in Jakarta, Indonesia in March 2003. It aims to support other programs, which promote women’s political participation – through the nomination process or otherwise.

Taking Duties Seriously: Individual Duties in International Human Rights Law. 1999, International Council on Human Rights Policy
This publication aims to contribute to the debate on individual duties and human rights by collating and organizing in a readable way the various references to notions of individual duties and responsibilities in international human rights standards.

Tales from the Dark: Testimonies About the Communist Terror. 2003, Assistance Centre for Torture Survivors
This book contains authentic experiences of people who survived the Communist Concentration Camps, forced displacement, exile and depravation of their basic rights. It is a part of the Assistance Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors’ (ACET) efforts to break the silence about the torture and terror under Communism.

Torture Reporting Handbook. 2000, The University of Essex
This handbook seeks to enable small Non-Governmental Organizations to produce high-quality information on both individual incidents and patterns of torture, with a view to maximizing the utility of the information to the international bodies, as well as assisting those NGOs to select the most appropriate procedure or procedures to which to address the information in light of their own desired result.

Torture: Stories of Survival. 2005, Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
This book is based on an exhibition titled “Torture: Stories of Survival” that aimed to challenge the preconceptions that torture is an unthinkable event, affecting a minority of persons exposed to extreme political regimes “ far away” .

Trafficking in Persons: A Gender and Rights Perspective. 2002, United Nations Development Fund for Women
This kit is an invitation to all practitioners addressing the issue of trafficking in persons to revisit and rethink their efforts from a gender and rights perspective.

UNICEF's Priorities for Children 2002-2005. 2002, United Nations' Children Fund
This booklet is an overview of the United Nations' Children Fund (UNICEF) Medium-term strategic plan for the period 2002-2005. UNICEF is organizing its programmes, partnerships, alliances, advocacy work and internal operations around five organizational priorities — girls' education, integrated early childhood development, immunization 'plus', fighting HIV/AIDS, and protecting children from violence, abuse, exploitation and discrimination.

Women 2000 and Beyond: Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: United Nations Response. 1998, United Nations’ Division for the Advancement of Women
This issue of women 2000 focuses upon some of the developments taken to address sexual violence against women during armed conflict. It provides consideration to the failure of the international community to address the issue of war-time sexual violence during the early years of the UN and examines the manner in which sexual violence during armed conflict emerged as an item of serious concern within the UN.

Working Women's Rights Manual [in Arabic]. Arab Association for Human Rights
This manual seeks to inform male and female workers of their rights at work and to raise their awareness of these rights. It also aims to raise awareness that leads to improving women's status at the workplace and contributes to obtaining their rights.

World Migration 2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration. 2005, International Organization for Migration
World Migration 2005 analyses the effects of globalization, trade liberalization, economic integration and the widening gap between rich and poor nations on migration flows.