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Human Development Report 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Governance and MDG, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, UNDP ProducedThis year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people’s well-being. Indeed, human development is an evolving idea—not a fixed, static set of precepts—and as the world changes, analytical tools and concepts evolve. So this Report is...
State of the Union: South Africa Report
Africa, Civil Society, Democracy, Human Rights, Report, Civil SocietyProduced by the State of the Union Project, this 2010 report is one of ten country studies that assess the performance of Member States against key governance, economic, social, civil and political policy standards, and rights instruments. Although, a historical approach has been used, the period under review is 2007-2009. The State of the Union project tracks and...
The State of the World’s Children Special Edition: Celebrating 20 Years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Other UN AgencyIn commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November 2009, UNICEF is dedicating a special edition of its flagship publication The State of the World’s Children to child rights. The report broadly assesses the Convention’s impact on children’s well-being and human development during the past two decades,...
Freedom in the World 2010: erosion of freedom intensifies
Book, Human Rights, Civil SocietyIn a year of intensified repression against human rights defenders and democratic activists by many of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, this index from Freedom House unsurprisingly asserts to have found a continued erosion of freedom worldwide. The index details a number of key findings including: ...
UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2008
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Other UN AgencyUNHCR systematically gathers and reports statistics on populations of concern, including numbers, locations, demographic characteristics, as well as legal and physical protection needs. Such information is required to design programmes that bring protection and improved welfare to refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and others of concern. The Statistical...
The State of the World's Human Rights
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Civil SocietyAmnesty International's 2010 report documents abuses in 159 countries and shows how powerful governments are blocking advances in international justice by standing above the law on human rights, shielding allies from criticism and acting only when politically convenient. Between January and May 2009, some 300,000 Sri Lankans were trapped on a narrow strip of land between the retreating...
Scoring for Africa
Africa, Civil Society, Conflict, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationAhead of the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup on Friday, former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador and football star Didier Drogba will today publish ‘Scoring for Africa – An Alternative Guide to the World Cup’. Set out in the form of a ‘grudge-match’ report, the...
Strengthening African Governance: index of african governance results and rankings
Africa, Conflict, Electoral Systems, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Justice, Report, Academic/Think TankThe Index of African Governance is compiled and updated annually by a team of researchers at Harvard University and across Africa, under the leadership of Robert I. Rotberg and Rachel M. Gisselquist. The 2007 and 2008 editions of the Index were published as the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. In the first edition, published in 2007, Rotberg and Gisselquist set out the Index’...
Nations in Transit 2011
Corruption, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Justice, Media, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyNations in Transit is Freedom House’s comprehensive, comparative study of democratic development in 29 countries from Central Europe to Eurasia. The 2011 report - covering events of 2010 suggests that the authoritarian countries of the former Soviet Union have built governance systems that are resistant to reform and therefore increasingly vulnerable to unpredictable...
2010 State of the Union Continental Report - Deliver the dream: Time to close the gap between continental promises and the reality of African people
Africa, Civil Society, Democracy, Governance and Gender, Human Rights, Public Administration, Report, Civil SocietyThis reports finds an alarming gap between AU legal instruments and policy standards, the policies and practises of most Member States. Unless there is a change in the behaviour of both African Union organs and Member States, the many important decisions being taken at continental levels risk the danger of not being implemented. This will continue to have devastating consequences for the...