Escaping Victimhood
Edited by
Albrecht Schnabel & Anara Tabyshalieva
This publication draws on experiences from post-conflict environments in different parts of the world. The authors examine the proactive roles of girls and boys in promoting security for themselves and their families. The publication focuses on children’s suffering and their specific vulnerabilities during and after a war. It also looks into the international legal frameworks created to protect and empower children and youth in post-conflict environments, and gives examples of initiatives to help young people escape victimhood and voicelessness. As the young post-war generation will become the next leaders, parents and teachers, ensuring children and youth’s active role in post-conflict peacebuilding today could be among the most effective means of building sustainable peace tomorrow. Publisher: United Nations University Publication Date: March 2013 ISBN: 9789280812114 Pages: 328 Price: $37.00
HUMAN RIGHTS AN D GE N D ER S T U D I ES
Children, Youth and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Escaping Victimhood: Children, Youth and Post-conflict Peacebuilding
Human Rights and Conscientious Objection to Military Service
This publication addresses selective conscientious objection to particular wars, for those who volunteered to serve in the armed forces and in the reserves. For those who are or may be conscripted into the armed forces, this book specifies issues relating to their right to know their rights and applicable procedures, decision-making processes in dealing with applications, and the requirements for fair and impartial procedure. Concerning alternative service to military service, this book addresses the difference between non-combatant alternative service and civilian alternative service, as well as the conditions of alternative service and under what circumstances they may be different from the length and conditions of military service. Publisher: Office of the High Comissioner for Human Rights Publication Date: March 2013 ISBN: 9789211541960 Pages: 100 Price: $14.00
Women and the Right to Adequate Housing
Despite the right to adequate housing being recognized in international human rights law, over a billion people live in precarious conditions — many of them women. This publication sheds light on this plight and offers guidance on measures to prevent and eradicate discrimination against women with respect to housing rights. The first chapter describes the international legal and policy frameworks for women’s right to adequate housing. Chapter II outlines the underlying causes -- from discriminatory statutory laws to customary laws and practices, and lack of access to legal and other rememdies. Chapter III elaborates on issues such as forced evictions, degraded living conditions, and cultural and religious recognition of women’s rights. Publisher: Office of the High Comissioner for Human Rights Publication Date: January 2013 ISBN: 9789211541922 Pages: 100 Price: $12.00
Selected Decisions of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
This first volume presents a selection of 32 of the Committee’s most significant decisions on individual cases, addressing the issue of racial discrimination in relation to civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights. Throughout its existence, the Committee has established and developed its own jurisprudence on the admissibility criteria under the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Committee has addressed a variety of issues concerning different forms of discrimination. The index -- by article of the Convention, by subject, and by author and victim -- aims at facilitating the reader’s access to the relevant jurisprudence. Publisher: Office of the High Comissioner for Human Rights Publication Date: October 2012 ISBN: 9789211541953 Pages: 218 Price: $38.00
Basic Training Manual on Investigating and Prosecuting the Smuggling of Migrants
Migration is one of the great driving forces of human progress and development. The movement of people around the globe has contributed many stories to the shared history of humanity. People have moved all over the world for a variety of reasons: to increase economic opportunities, to provide their children with an education, to find a family, to embark on an adventure or to seek protection. In turn, migration has led to the proliferation of languages, cultures, cuisines and ideas throughout the world. Global migration today is one of the great by-products of globalization, and yet the exploitation of it by profit-seeking criminals represents a darker side of the phenomenon. Publisher: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Publication Date: October 2012 ISBN: 9789211302981 Pages: 202 Price: $42.00
Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-conflict Peacebuilding
Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies. Opportunities for sustainable peacebuilding are lost and sustainable peace at risk when significant stakeholders in a society’s future peace are excluded from healing the wounds of war, and building a new society and State. The contributors to this book draw on comparative case and country studies from post-conflict contexts in different parts of the world to offer insights into frameworks for understanding women as both victims and peacebuilders; to trace the road that women take from victimhood to empowerment and to highlight the essential partnerships between women and children and how they contribute to peace. Publisher: United Nations University Publication Date: September 2012 ISBN: 9789280812015 Pages: 408 Price: $38.00
Inclusive Social Protection in Latin America: A Comprehensive, Rights-based Approach
This publication examines the main debates under way on social protection and co-responsibility transfer programmes. It identifies the role played by these programmes and considers the conceptual elements, needs and the challenges that will have to be overcome to consolidate comprehensive social protection systems in Latin America. The authors argue that these should be solidarity-based systems that provide universal coverage and are essentially egalitarian in the guarantees established as citizens’ rights. Citizenship as a whole is thus becoming part of protection policies as the region moves towards all-encompassing social policies that combine the complementary principles of targeting as the instrument and universality as the end. Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: August 2012 ISBN: 9789210210850 Pages: 264 Price: $25.00 un.org/publications
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