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Human Rights Impact Resource Centre
Date:
2008-06-05 08:36
*Sommaire en français ci-dessous
Resumen en español debajo*
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*Renewed website supports worldwide online cooperation to promote human
rights*
The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre has renewed its online knowledge
centre. As from today, human rights practitioners from all over the world
are able to join in for discussions, collaborative work and interaction
through the web. New features include online work spaces, discussion groups
and RSS feeds.
The Resource Centre (www.humanrightsimpact.org <
http://www.humanrightsimpact.org/> ) brings together actors from all over
the world, who share a common interest in promoting human rights through
impact assessment methods. These methods help to translate human rights
norms into practical and workable objectives, and thus contribute directly
to the realisation of human rights.
Impact assessment of women health rights
The first group of practitioners that uses the Resource Centre for ongoing
work was recently in Cape Town, South Africa. There, from May 19 until May
27, Aim for human rights conducted a training on women health rights. The 13
participants of the training came from a variety of countries: e.g.
Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Mexico, Zimbabwe and South Africa. They worked on such
issues as violence against women, female genital mutilation and high
mortality of women in labour. To increase the effectiveness of their lobby
activities, they analysed the situation of women using a method, based on
human rights impact assessment, called HeRWAI. The analysis helped to link
what actually happens with what should happen according to the human rights
obligations of a country. The training in Cape Town allowed them to exchange
experiences and learn how to train others to apply the analysis.
Worldwide online cooperation
The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre, developed by Aim for human rights,
now offers space for such initiatives as the Women Health Rights training.
It allows continued collaboration on distance among the various participants
of the training through webbased technologies. As the renewed Human Rights
Impact Resource Centre was presented, participants reacted enthusiastic.
"The reason I want to become a HeRWAI trainer is because I know HeRWAI
works, I believe in the method. With this Resource Centre work space I can
exchange ideas, knowledge and my experiences with all HeRWAI trainers
worldwide." - participant of training
Knowledge centre
The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre has been developed in order to act
as a knowledge centre on impact assessment to help fulfill internationally
accepted human rights norms. It advocates the need for measuring the impact
on human rights of policies from national governments and businesses, as
well as programmes in development cooperation. This has become an issue of
growing interest to policy makers, international NGOs, grassroots
organisations and academics.
Work spaces on various human rights topics
Besides the method on women's health rights, other topics are presented as
well. An example is the Human Rights and Business Centre, where
organisations, businesses and others can use online features for permanent
contact and exchange as well as work together on specific projects from
different locations.
Visit the Resource Centre at www.humanrightsimpact.org <
http://www.humanrightsimpact.org/>
More information
Contact the Resource Centre team through info@humanrightsimpact.org or +31
(0) 233 40 27
The Resource Centre is an initiative of Aim for human rights:
www.aimforhumanrights.org
*Un nouveau site Web soutient la coopération mondiale en ligne pour
favoriser des droits de l'homme*
Le Centre de ressources sur l'impact de droits de l'homme a renové son
centre de connaissance en ligne. Maintenant, les praticiens de droits de
l'homme partout dans le monde peuvent se joindre pour les discussions, le
travail collaboratif et l'interaction par le Web. Les nouveaux dispositifs
incluent les espaces de travail, les groupes de discussion et les
alimentations en ligne de RSS.
www.humanrightsimpact.org, info@humanrightsimpact.org
*Nuevo sitio web apoya la cooperación mundial en línea para el fomento de
los derechos humanos*
El Centro de Recursos sobre el Impacto de los Derechos Humanos ha renovado
su centro de conocimiento en línea. A partir ahora, los expertos en derechos
humanos de todo el mundo podrán participar en discusiones, trabajos
colaborativos e interacciones a través de la red. Entre las nuevas
funcionalidades se incluyen espacios de trabajo, grupos de discusión y
entradas y comentarios RSS.
www.humanrightsimpact.org, info@humanrightsimpact.org
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