RESOURCES

The following is a short list of resources–both printed materials and organizations (largely working internationally)–which trainers and others might find useful as a starting point for those seeking further information on the subjects addressed in the modules of Part I.

MODULE 1—DEVELOPING A RIGHTS-BASED PERSPECTIVE

Bolívar, Ligia. “The Fundamentalism of Dignity.” In A Human Rights Message, edited by Swedish Institute, 27-32.  Stockholm: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, 1998.

Dreze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity.  Delhi: Oxford India Paperbacks, 1998.

Eide, Asbjørn, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas, eds.  Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

Felice, William F.  Taking Suffering Seriously: The Importance of Collective Human Rights. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Lauren, Paul Gordon.  The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Liebenberg, Sandra and Karrisha Pillay, eds.  Your Socio-Economic Rights: A South African Resource Manual.  Cape Town: Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape.  (Forthcoming, November 2000.)

Ravindran, D.J.  Human Rights Praxis: A Resource book for Study, Action and Reflection. Bangkok: The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, 1998.

Printed material

Alston, Philip. “The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” In The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, edited by Philip Alston.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Craven, Matthew C.R.  The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on Its Development. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

 “The Limburg Principles in the Implementation of the ICESCR.” Human Rights Quarterly 9 (November 1987): 122-35.

“The Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 20 (August 1998): 691-701.

United Nations. “The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet 16 (revised 1996).   

Organizations

Center for Economic and Social Rights
162 Montague Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA

Tel: (1 718) 237 9145
Fax: (1 718) 237 9147
E-mail: rights@cesr.org

Printed Material

Peters, J.S., and Andrea Wolper, eds.  Women’s Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

Schuler, Margaret, ed.  From Basic Need to Basic Rights.  Washington, D.C.: Institute for Women Law and Development, 1995.

Symonides, Janusz, and Vladimi Volodin, eds.  Human Rights of Women: A Collection of International and Regional Normative Instruments. Paris: UNESCO, 1999.

Tomasevski, Katarina.  Women and Human Rights. London: Zed Books, 1993.

United Nations Commission on Human Rights.  Preliminary Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Ms. Radika Coomaraswamy. UN Doc. E/CN.4/1995/42 (1995).

Organizations

Women, Law and Development International
1350 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 407
Washington, D.C. 20036
USA

Tel: (1 202) 463-7447
Fax: (1 202) 463 7477
E-mail: wld@wld.org

International Women’s Rights Action Watch
University of Minnesota
301 - 10^th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA

Tel: (1 612) 625-5093
Fax: (1 612) 625-6351
E-mail: iwraw@hhh.umn.edu

Printed material

Andrews, Arlene Bowers, and Natalie Hevener Kaufman, eds.  Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Standard for Living Adequate for Development. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.

Black, Maggie.  Child Domestic Workers: A Handbook for Research and Action. London: Anti-Slavery International, 1997.

Detrick, Sharon. Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 1999.

Himes, James R.   Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Resource Mobilization in Low-Income Countries.  The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

United Nations. “The Rights of the Child.” UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 10 (1996).

——— . “Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children.” UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 23 (1995).

——— . “Sexual Exploitation of Children.” UN Centre for Human Rights, UN Study Series No. 8 (1997).

Van Bueren, Gerraldine.  International Law on the Rights of the Child.  Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 1998.

Organizations:

Defence for Children International
International Secretariat
rue de Varembé
P.O. Box 88
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland

Tel: (41 22) 734 05 50
Fax: (41 22) 740 11 45
E-mail dci-hq@pingnet.ch

Anaya, James.  Indigenous Peoples in International Law.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Burger, Julian and Paul Hunt.  “Toward the International Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights.” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 12(4) (1994): 405-23.

United Nations. “The Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights/UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 9 (Rev. 1) (1997).

United Nations. “Human Rights and Refugees.”  UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 20 (1993).

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Report on the Fifth Session. Economic and Social Council Official Records, 1991. Supplement No.3, United Nations, E/1991/23; E/C.12/1990.8.

FIAN International Secretariat.  Economic Human Rights: Their Time Has Come.  Heidelberg, 1995.

International Human Rights Internship Program. Ripple in Still Water: Reflections by Activists on Local- and National-Level Work on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  Washington, D.C.:IHRIP, 1997.

Alston, Philip, and Gerard Quinn.  “The Nature and Scope of States Parties’ Obligations Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 9 (May 1987): 156-229.

Künnemann, Rolf.  “A Coherent Approach to Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 17 (May 1995): 323-342.

Leckie, Scott. “Another Step towards Indivisibility: Identifying the Key Features of Violations of ESC Rights.”  Human Rights Quarterly 20 (August 1998): 81-124.

Betten, Lammy. “The Implementation of Social and Economic Rights by the ILO.” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 6(2) (1998): 29-42.

International Labour Organization.  “The ILO: What It Is—What It Does.”  Geneva: ILO, 2000.  Available at http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/brochure/index.htm.

Leary, Virginia.  “Lessons from the Experience of the International Labour Organization.  In The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, edited by Philip Alston.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Concluding observations on Canada’s third periodic report under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. UN Doc. E/C.12.1/Add. 31, 4 December 1998.

International Labour Office.  Introduction to Social Security.  Geneva, 1984.

Kjonstad, A., ed.  Constitutional Protection of Social Security Benefits.  Oslo: Ad Notam Gyldendal: 1994.

Krause, Catarina. “Lowering of Social Security Standards Under International Human Rights Law.” LLM thesis, University of Essex, 1994 (on file with Sandra Liebenberg, the module author).

Liebenberg, S., and A. Tilley.  “Poverty and Social Security in South Africa.” Briefing paper for the Poverty Hearings.  South African National NGO Coalition, 1998.

Scheinin, Martin.  “The Right to Social Security.” In Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

Sohrab, J. A.  Sexing the Benefit: Women, Social Security and Financial Independence in EC Sex Equality Law.  Aldershot, England: Dartmouth, Socio‑Legal Studies Series, 1996.

MODULE 12—THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD

Printed material

Eide, Asbjørn. “The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living including the Right to Food.”  In Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas, 89-106.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

Künnemann, Rolf. “Food and Freedom.” Available from FIAN International Secretariat, address below.

United Nations. “The Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right.” Final Report submitted by Asbjørn Eide, Special Raporteur.  UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1987/23 (1987).

——— .  “The Right to Adequate Food as a Human Right.”  UN Centre for Human Rights, UN Study Series No. 1 (1989).

Organizations

FIAN International Secretariat
P.O. Box 102243
D-69012 Heidelberg
Germany

Tel: (49 6221) 830 620
Fax: (49 6221) 830 565
E-mail: fian@fian.org

Printed material

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. Forced Evictions and Human Rights: A Manual for Action.  Geneva, 1999.

——— .  Legal Provisions on Housing Rights: International and National Approaches.

Utrecht, 1994.

——— .  The Human Right to Adequate Housing: 1945 to 1999—Chronology of United Nations Activity.  Geneva: 2000.

Farha, Leilani.  “Is There A Woman In The House?: Women And The Right To Adequate Housing.”  In Women and International Human Rights Law, edited by K. Askin and D. Koenig.  New York: Transnational Publishers, 1999.

United Nations. “The right to adequate housing.” Final Report submitted by Mr. Sachar Ravindar, Special Rapporteur.  UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/12 (1995).

——— .  “The Human Right to Adequate Housing.” UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 21 (1996).

——— .  “Forced Evictions and Human Rights.” UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 25 (1996).

Organizations

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
83, rue de Montbrillant
1202 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel/Fax: (41 22) 734 1028
E-mail: sleckie@attglobal.net
Website: www.cohre.org

Habitat International Coalition
8, rue Gustave Moynier
1202 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel/Fax: (41 22) 738 8167
E-mail: hic_hrc@iprolink.ch

American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Right to Health Care: Conceptualizing a Minimum Core Content.  Washington, D.C., 1993.  Mimeographed.

Pan-American Health Organization.  The Right to Health in the Americas. Washington, D.C., 1989.

Toebes, Brigit C. A.  The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law.  Antwerp: Intersentia, 1999.

United Nations.  Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Report of the Ninth Session.  E/C/12/1993/19.  General discussion on the right to health.

———. “Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children.” UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 23 (1995).

——— .  Status of Preparation of Publications, Studies and Documents for the World Conference.  World Health Organization contribution.  General Assembly, World Conference on Human Rights, Preparatory Committee.  A/CONF.157.PC/61/ Add. 8 (1993).

On-line resources

World Health Organization.  http://www.who.org

François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health. 

http://www.hri.ca/partners/fxbcenter

Cullet, Philippe. “Definition of Environmental Rights in a Human Rights Context.” Netherlands Quarterly for Human Rights 13(1) (1995): 25-40.

Hunter, David, James Salzman and Durwood Zaelke.  International Environmental Law and Policy.  New York: Foundation Press, 1998.

Prakash, Sanjeev. “The Right to the Environment: Emerging Implications in Theory and Practice.” Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 13(4) (1998): 403-33.

Himes, James R.  Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Resource Mobilization in Low-Income Countries, 143-83. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

Hunt, Paul. “State obligations, indicators, benchmarks and the right to education.” Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  UN Doc. E/C.12/1998/11.

Nowak, Manfred. “The Right to Education.” In Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas, 189-211.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

United Nations Human Rights Commission.  Preliminary Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Ms. Katarina Tomasevski.  UN Doc. E/CN.4/1999/49 (13 Jan. 1999).

Watkin, Kevin.  Education Now: Break the Cycle of Poverty.  Oxford: Oxfam International, 2000.

Eide, Asbjørn.  “Cultural Rights as Individual Human Rights.” In Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas, 189-212.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

Stavenhagen, Rodolfo.  “Cultural Rights and Universal Human Rights.” In Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas, 63-77.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

Wilson, Richard A., ed.  Human Rights, Culture & Context.  Chicago: Pluto Press, 1997.

Agarwal, Bina. A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Butegwa, Florence.  “Using the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Secure Women’s Access to Land in Africa.” In Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives, edited by Rebecca J. Cook.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Plant, Roger. “Land Rights in Human Rights and Development: Introducing a New ICJ Initiative.” The ICJ Review 51 (1993): 10-30.

Fact-finding/investigation and documentation

Amnesty International (Canada) and International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development. Documenting Human Rights Violations by State Agents: Sexual Violence.  Montreal, 1999.

Guzman, Manuel. Getting the Facts Down: Documenting Human Rights Violations.  Bangkok: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, 1997.

Hansen, Stephen A.  Thesaurus of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Terminology and Potential Violations. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000.

Ravindran, D.J., Manuel Guzman, and Babes Ignacio, eds.  Handbook on Fact-Finding and Documentation of Human Rights Violations. Bangkok: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, 1994.

Indicators and Benchmarks

Tomasevski, Katarina.  “Indicators.” In Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas, 390-401.  Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

United Nations.  Progress Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Danilo Türk. “Realization of economic, social and cultural rights.” UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1990/19 (1990), paras. 1-105.

Community Surveys

Clark, Lawrence P.  Introduction to Surveys and Interviews.  Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Policy Studies Associates, 1976.

Converse, Jean M., and Stanley Presser.  Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire.  Beverly Hills, CA: Sage University Papers, #63, 1991.

Kane, Eileen.  Seeing for Yourself: Research Handbook for Girls’ Education in Africa.  Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1995.

Thomas-Slayter, Barbara, et al.  A Manual for Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis: Responding to the Development Challenge.  Worster, MA: ECOGEN, 1995.

Kikwawila Study Group.  Qualitative Research Methods: Teaching Materials from a TDR Workshop. UNDP/World Bank/WHO, 1994.

Data Analysis

Horwitz, Lucy, and Lou Ferleger.  Statistics for Social Change.  Boston: South End Press, 1980.

Spirer, Herbert F., and Louise Spirer.  Data Analysis for Monitoring Human Rights. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993.

Budget Analysis

Bhatt, Mihar R. “Budget Analysis and Policy Priority: DISHA’s Experience.” Ahmedabad, India: Foundation for Public Interest.

Budlender, Debbie, ed. The Women’s Budget.  Cape Town: IDASA, 1996.

Diokno, Ma. Socorro. A Rights-Based Approach towards Budget Analysis.  Washington, D.C.: International Human Rights Internship Program, 1999.

International Budget Project. A Guide to Budget Work. Washington, D.C., 1999.  Available at http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/guide.

Robinson, Shirley, and Linda Biersteker, eds. First Call: The South African Children’s Budget.  Cape Town: IDASA, 1997.

Reports

Cohen, Stanley.  “Goverment Responses to Human Rights Reports.”  Human Rights Quarterly 18 (1996): 517-543.

Wilson, Richard A. “Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities.”  In Human Rights, Culture & Context, edited by Richard A Wilson.  Chicago: Pluto Press, 1997.

Coombs, Ph. H., and Ahmed Manzoor.  Attacking Rural Poverty: How Informal Education Can Help. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1974.

Freire, Paolo.  Cultural Action for Freedom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Educational Review and Centre for the Study of Development and Social Change, 1970.

———.  Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London: Penguin, 1972.

Liebenberg, Sandra and Karrisha Pillay, eds.  Your Socio-Economic Rights: A South African Resource Manual.  Cape Town: Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape.  (Forthcoming, November 2000.)

Srinivasan, Lyra.  Tools for Community Participation: A Manual for Training Trainers in Participatory Technique.  New York: United Nations Development Programme, 1990.

Werner, David, and Bill Bower.  Helping Health Workers Learn.  California: Hesperian Foundation, 1982.

Chapman, Audrey.  Exploring a Human Rights Approach to Health Care Reform.  Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science Publication, 1993.

ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa.  Cape Town: Community Law Centre and the Centre for Human Rights.

Craven, Matthew.  “The Domestic Application of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” Netherlands International Law Review  40 (1993): 367.

Dhavan, Rajiv. “Promises, Promises . . . Human Rights in India.”  New Delhi: Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre, Working Paper no. 130, 1996.

Leary, Virginia.  “Justiciability and Beyond: Complaint Procedures and the Right to Health.” The ICJ Review (December 1995): 105-22.

Leckie, Scott. “The Justiciability of Housing Rights.” In The Right to Complain about Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, edited by A. P. M. Coomans and Fried van Hoof.  Utrecht: SIM, 1995.

——— .  “Another Step Towards Indivisibility: Identifying the Key Features of Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly, 20(1) (1998): 81-124.

Tomasevski, Katarina. “Justiciability of ESC Rights.” The ICJ Review 55 (December 1995): 203-19.

Organizations

Interights
Lancaster House
33 Islington High Street
London N1 9LH
United Kingdom

Tel: (44 171) 278 3230
Fax: (44 171) 278 4334
E-mail: ir@interights.org

Carver, Richard.  Performance and Legitimacy: National Human Rights Institutions.  Geneva: International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2000.

Gomez Mario. “Social and Economic Rights and Human Rights Commission.” Human Rights Quarterly 17((1) (1995): 155.

Hucker, John.  “Antidiscrimination Laws in Canada: Human Rights Commissions and the Search for Equality.” Human Rights Quarterly 19(3) (1997): 547-71.

Liebenberg, Sandra.  Identifying violations of socio-economic rights: The role of the South African Human Rights Commission.  Law, Democracy and Development 1 (November 1997): 161.

United Nations.  Principles relating to the Status and Functioning of National Institutions (“Paris Principles”).  UN Doc. E/CN.4/1992/54, Annex (1992).

International Women’s Rights Action Watch.  Assessing the Status of Women: A Guide to Reporting Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.  Minneapolis, 1996.

United Nations. “Discrimination Against Women: The Convention and the Committee.”  UN Centre for Human Rights, Fact Sheet No. 22 (1994).

——— .  Manual for Preparing Human Rights Reports. UN Center for Human Rights and the UN Institute for Training and Research.  UN Doc. HR/Pub./1991/1.

Addo, M.  “Private Inter-Individual Violations of the Right to Life.” In Essays on International Human Rights by A. Vihapur.  New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1991.

Steiner, Henry, and Philip Alston.  International Human Rights in Context, 931-57.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

United Nations.  “The Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Impact of the Activities and Working Methods of Transnational Corporations.” July 1996.  UN Doc. E/CN.4/SUB.2/1996/12.

Organizations

Centre for Corporate Accountability
40 Leverton Street
London NW5 2PG
United Kingdom

Tel: (44 020) 7209 9143
E-mail: info@corporateaccountability.org
Website: http://www.corporateaccountability.org

Website

http://www.corpwatch.org – Website with links on how to obtain information on transnational corporations

MODULE 26—MULTILATERAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS

Greider, William.  One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Hale, Angela, ed. Trade Myths and Gender Reality: Trade Liberalisation and Women’s Lives. Uppsala: Global Publications Foundation and International Coalition for Development Action, 1998.

International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and In­vestment.  Investment, Trade and Finance–the Human Rights Framework: Focusing on the Mul­tilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI).  September 1998.

Kothari, Miloon, and Tara Krause. “Human Rights or Corporate Rights? The MAI Challenge.” Human Rights Tribune 5 (April 1998).

Mehra, M., ed.  Human Rights and Economic Globalisation: Directions for the WTO.  Uppsala: Global Publications Foundation and INCHRITI, November 1999.

Wallach, Lori and Michelle Sforza.  Whose Trade Organization?  Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy: An Assessment of the World Trade Organization.  Washington, D.C.: Public Citizen, 1999.

United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. “Human rights as the pri­mary objective of international trade, investment and finance policy and practice.”  Working paper submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango and Deepika Udagama, in accordance with Sub-Commission resolution 1998/12, UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1999/11 (17 June 1999).

——— . “Globalization and its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights.” Preliminary Report submitted by J. Oloka-Onyango and Deepika Udagama, in accordance with Sub-Commission Res. 1999/8 and Commission Dec. 2000/2.  UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/xx (forthcoming August 2000).

Organizations

INCHRITI
c/o HIC Secretariat
B-28 Nizamuddin East
New Delhi—110 013
India

E-mail: hichrc@ndf.vsnl.net.in

Printed Material

Alexander, Nancy. Who Shapes Your Country's Future? A Guide to Influencing the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategies.  Washington, D.C.: Bread for the World Institute, 1998.

Clark, Dana. A Citizen's Guide to the World Bank Inspection Panel. Washington, D.C.: Center for International Environmental Law, 1999.

Fox, Jonathan, and David L. Brown.  The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and Grassroots Movements.  Cambridge: Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

Treakle, Kay.  Toolkits for Activists: A User's Guide to the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).  Washington, D.C.: Bank Information Center, 1999.

Organizations

Tel: (1 202) 737 7752
Fax: (1 202) 737 1155
Web page: http://www.bicusa.org

Printed Material

Ankumah, Evelyn A.  African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Practices and Procedures–Vol. 16.  Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 1996.

Beyani, Chaloka.  “Toward a More Effective Guarantee of Women’s Rights in the African Human Rights System.” In Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives edited by Rebecca J. Cook.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Printed Material

Council of Europe.  The Social Charter of the 21st Century.   Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1997.

——— .  European Social Charter, the Charter, its Protocols: The Revised Charter.  Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1997.

Kenny, Tom.  Securing Social Rights Across Europe: How NGOs Can Make Use of the European Social Charter.  Oxford: Oxfam, 1997. 

Samuel, Lenia.  Fundamental Social Rights—Case Law of the European Social Charter.  Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1997.

Organizations

Council of Europe
Directorate of Human Rights
European Social Charter Section
Palais de l’Europe
F 67000 Strasbourg, France

Web page: http://www.coe.fr

The European Social Charter Section produces a newsletter, Social Rights = Human Rights, with a Fact Sheet, three times a year.

Davidson, Scott.  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights.  Dartmouth, UK: Aldershot, 1992.

——— .  The Inter-American Human Rights System.  Dartmouth, UK: Aldershot, 1997.

Davis, Shelton H.  Land Rights and Indigenous People: The Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.  Cambridge, Mass.: Cultural Survival, Inc., 1988.

Gallon Giraldo, Gustavo. “Latin America: Challenges in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.” The ICJ Review 55 (December 1995): 59-74.

Harris, David J., and Stephen Livingstone, eds.  The Inter-American System of Human Rights.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Medina, Cecilia.  “Toward a More Effective Guarantee of the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Women in the Inter-American System.” In Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives edited by Rebecca J. Cook.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Organizations

Center for Justice and International Law
1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 555
Washington, D.C. 20009-1053

Tel: (1 202) 319 3000
Fax: (1 202) 319 3019
E-mail: cejil@igc.apc.org