Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding.

Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding.

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Author / Creator:Steinberg, Gerald M.
Imprint:Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (224 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Human rights -- Evaluation.
Non-governmental organizations.
Human rights -- Evaluation.
Non-governmental organizations.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148212
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Other authors / contributors:Herzberg, Anne.
Berman, Jordan.
ISBN:9789004218123
9004218122
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:This work outlines available resources and proposed standards for international NGO fact-finding missions. Chapter One presents an introduction to the issue of NGO fact-finding. Chapter Two discusses the problems caused by the lack of any generally-accepted guidelines for NGO fact-finding, in contrast with contexts where NGOs have achieved consensus. Chapter Three surveys proposed guidelines for human rights and humanitarian NGOs. In addition, this section examines United Nations fact-finding standards, as well as examples of internal fact-finding standards for major NGOs. Chapter Four analyz.
Other form:Print version: Steinberg, Gerald M. Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004218116
Table of Contents:
  • Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; About NGO Monitor; Acknowledgements; I Introduction; II The Need for Standardized Fact-Finding Methodology; III Guidelines for NGOs; IV Fact-Finding Case Studies; A) Documenting Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Kosovo (1999)
  • The International Crisis Group; B) The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (2008); C) Democratic Republic of Congo Mapping Exercise (1993-2003)
  • UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  • D) The Work of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch: Evidence from Colombia (1988-2004)
  • Conflict Analysis Resource Center/University of LondonE) Human Rights Watch and the Lebanon War (2006); V Analysis and Conclusions; Appendices; Proclamation of Teheran, Final Act of the International Conference on Human Rights (1968); UN General Assembly Resolution 35/176 (1980); Belgrade Minimal Rules (1980); UN General Assembly Resolution 46/59 (1991); Rules of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (1992).
  • Guidelines for the Conduct of UN Inquiries into Allegations of Massacres (1995)Methods of Work of the Special Rapporteur on Torture (2001); International Non-Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter (2006); Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-Holders of the Human Rights Council (2007); The Lund-London Guidelines (2009); Human Rights Fact-Finding: Some Legal and Ethical Dilemmas (May 2010)
  • Geoffrey Robertson, Keynote address at the launch of the Lund-London Guidelines (International Bar Association Human Rights Institute); Bibliography; Index.

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