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Human rights indicators : a guide to measurement and implementation
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- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York ; Geneva : United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, 2012
- Physical Details
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- x, 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9211541980, 9789211541984
- OCLC
- ocn857277503
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Also available on the Internet via the United Nations OHCHR website.
- Human rights and indicators: rationale and some concerns. What are human rights? -- United Nations human rights mechanisms -- Human rights indicators: notion and rationale -- Some concerns and misconceptions -- Indicators in the international legal framework -- Conceptualizing indicators for human rights. Issues to address in human rights measurement -- The conceptual framework -- Some considerations in conceptualizing the indicators -- Importance of context-specific indicators -- Methodological approaches to human rights indicators. Ethical, statistical and human rights considerations in indicator selection -- Sources and data-generating mechanisms -- Disaggregation of human rights indicators -- Illustrating the framework: indicators for some rights. Considerations in preparing tables of indicators -- Identifying the attributes -- Selecting the indicators -- Putting indicators into context and building country ownership -- Framework in practice: implementing and monitoring rights. Using indicators for human rights -- Interpreting statistical information from a human rights perspective -- Setting up human rights monitoring systems