Incorporating Human Rights: Lessons Learned, and Next Steps

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gerard Ruggie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Lessons Learned

What Went Wrong and Why – An Essay on Post-Hussein Iraq

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Michael Popejoy
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Constitutional Rule ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Form Of Government

Analyzing the lessons learned in Iraq, the author of this article explores whether the American experience embracing our fundamental beliefs on human rights and other related ideologies, including separation of church and state, freedom of individuals to choose their leaders and their form of government through a democratic forum, authority of a constitutional rule of law, and a concept of impartial justice, is an exportable commodity.

Youth and the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons learned from a human rights-based prevention programme for youths in São Paulo, Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Vera Paiva ◽  
Marcos R. V. Garcia ◽  
Ivan França-Jr ◽  
Cristiane Gonçalves da Silva ◽  
L. G. Galeão-Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Prevention Programme ◽  
São Paulo

Advancing Socioeconomic Rights Through Interdisciplinary Factfinding: Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Knuckey ◽  
Joshua D. Fisher ◽  
Amanda M. Klasing ◽  
Tess Russo ◽  
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Science Volume ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Socioeconomic Rights ◽  
Human Rights Movement

The human rights movement is increasingly using interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, mixed-methods, and quantitative factfinding. There has been too little analysis of these shifts. This article examines some of the opportunities and challenges of these methods, focusing on the investigation of socioeconomic human rights. By potentially expanding the amount and types of evidence available, factfinding's accuracy and persuasiveness can be strengthened, bolstering rights claims. However, such methods can also present significant challenges and may pose risks in individual cases and to the human rights movement generally. Interdisciplinary methods can be costly in human, financial, and technical resources; are sometimes challenging to implement; may divert limited resources from other work; can reify inequalities; may produce “expertise” that disempowers rightsholders; and could raise investigation standards to an infeasible or counterproductive level. This article includes lessons learned and questions to guide researchers and human rights advocates considering mixed-methods human rights factfinding. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 17 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Don't Let Kellys Go to Hell

2021 ◽  
pp. 284-308
Author(s):  
Manuel Lozano Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Job Applicant ◽  
Digital Plane ◽  
Global Events

This chapter aims to make the most of the lessons learned due to the Spanish cleaning ladies' crisis in order to bring useful recommendations abroad. Spain has been the cradle of Las Kellys, a cleaning women union turned into a social movement that has disclosed the outsourcing-driven precariousness that preys on thousands of women. This chapter uses those maids' struggle for dignity at work to expose how oppression hides even in very highly developed countries. Oppression may crouch behind a gender gap or sit in a manager's desk when a job applicant is discriminated against by her nationality or gender. And, of course, oppression may appear in the digital plane as it engulfs labor dignity everywhere. Apropos of global events, this chapter will focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the maids' lives and on their brave stand against rising discrimination, aggravated vulnerability, and belittled human rights. Finally, this chapter gathers the opinions of two vet Kellys about their situation in order to better illustrate its content.

scholarly journals Human rights and the clean development mechanism: lessons learned from three case studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Obergassel ◽  
Lauri Peterson ◽  
Florian Mersmann ◽  
Jeanette Schade ◽  
Jane Alice Hofbauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Clean Development Mechanism ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Mechanism

scholarly journals An Analysis of Public Order Policing in the Gauteng Province, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1320-1332
Author(s):  
Zephania Mqedi Mkhwanazi ◽  
Dee Khosa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
South African Police Service ◽  
Service Training

Background: Public order policing (POP) has attracted considerable interest from the academic community due to public protests in South Africa. This is not surprising given that it represents an important component of police work. As South Africa’s democracy has been maturing, the democratic dispensation brought the promise of civil liberties and a human rights culture. Although these parallel developments brought prospects of accountability and legitimacy by the South African Police Service (SAPS), the restoration of public order, especially during public protests, has remained a challenge for the SAPS. Purpose: The objectives of this research were threefold: to explore the role of the POP unit; to explore its capacity to respond to public protests; and to determine the effectiveness of the integrated interventions of the relevant stakeholders to restore engagement and order. Methods: A qualitative research approach employing semi-structured interviews was utilised. To understand the policing of public protests, purposeful sampling was utilised to select 25 participants comprising community members, municipal officials, and POP members. These participants were selected since they are directly involved either in responding to public order or being part of protests, and it was therefore envisaged that their contribution would assist in understanding how protests are responded to. Conclusion: The findings indicate that when the POP units that are mandated to fulfil these goals are not effective, disruptions of public order are minimised and the destructive consequences of those that do occur are contained. The results illustrate that the restoration of public order necessitates regenerating public order characterised by low expectations of violence and a heightened respect for human rights. Recommendations: This article recommends that the relevant stakeholders in collaboration with the POP unit must respond adequately to the maintenance of safety and security during protests. The relevant stakeholders and the POP unit should enhance the effectiveness of the current strategies to be able to deal with anticipated public violence and disorder, improvement of the intelligence-gathering process to plan properly, adequate and proper training facilities, reviewing and updating of training manuals, and methods based on lessons learned and best practices to ensure that the training is relevant. POP members must undergo regular training and in-service training to maintain their fitness levels, standards, proficiency, and competencies.

scholarly journals Legal instability in cyberspace and OSCE’s mitigation role

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adina PONTA
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Due Diligence ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Key Steps

After the international legal community widely endorsed the application of international law to cyberspace, many open questions remain on the concrete interpretation of existing rights and obligations to the cyber realm. In pursuit of its mandate to promote human rights and conflict prevention, the OSCE can play a major role to support operationalization of international law and application of existing principles to cyberspace. This paper examines some key steps in the aftermath of the creation of norms of behavior, and transparency and confidence-building measures. After a brief analysis of the normcreation process, this piece identifies several pressing cybersecurity challenges on the international landscape, and offers suggestions for consolidating the voluntary non-binding norms States agreed upon. Using lessons learned from other domains, the analysis will focus on mechanisms of building further stability and transparency in cyberspace, in particular by reference to the due diligence principle and States’ human rights obligations.

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