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Measuring human rights and democratic governance : experiences and lessons from metagora / edited by Claire Naval, Sylvie Walter and Raul Suarez de Miguel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff, Corporate Author.
- Series:
- OECD Journal on Development: Volume 9 Issue 2
- OECD journal on development ; v. 9, no. 2 (2008)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Developing countries.
- Democracy.
- Human rights--Developing countries.
- Human rights.
- Economic assistance--Developing countries.
- Economic assistance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Other Title:
- French title on t.p. verso: Mesurer les droits de l'homme et la gouvernance democratique : experiences et enseignements de metagora
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On the occasion of the 60 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this special issue of the OECD Journal on Development focuses on robust methods and tools for assessing human rights, democracy and governance. These findings of the Metagora project formulate a response to these questions. Metagora is the first international project on measuring human rights and democratic governance to undertake several pilot experiences in different regions of the world in an interactive fashion. This publication presents key results, policy relevance and methodological implications of these
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; PREFACE; FOREWORD; Contents; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 On the road to Montreux and beyond; Chapter 2 Metagora a decentralised laboratory; Chapter 3 Abuses and ill treatment by police forces in Mexico City; Chapter 4 Indigenous peoples rights in the Philippines; Chapter 5 Human rights and democracy dimensions of land reform in South Africa; Chapter 6 Poverty, governance and democratic participation in Francophone Africa and the Andean region; Chapter 7 The right to education in Palestine
- Chapter 8 Massive human rights violations in Sri LankaChapter 9 Main lessons and products from Metagora; Chapter 10 Indicators for monitoring compliance with international human rights instruments; Chapter 11 Candidate indicators for monitoring the right to education; Chapter 12 Measuring economic and social rights to hold governments accountable; Chapter 13 Capacity development for assessing democratic governance: a UNDP global programme; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-82818-1
- 9786611828189
- 92-64-04947-9
- OCLC:
- 437234543
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