Aid NGOs and the Human Rights-Based Approach: Case Studies of Oxfam America and Oxfam Japan

Peace Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-315
Author(s):  
Junhyup Kim ◽  
Young Soo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

scholarly journals The Relationship between Human Rights and Disaster Risk Reduction Revisited: Bringing the Legal Perspective into the Discussion

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen da Costa ◽  
Paulina Pospieszna
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
International Human ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This paper explores the link between human rights and disaster risk reduction. We revisit the notion of a human rights-based approach in the context of natural disasters, analyzing how this concept may contribute to greater accountability and empowerment of those involved in disaster risk reduction. To better understand the processes of empowering rights holders and holding duty bearers into account we adopt legal analytical lenses. By doing so we review four country case studies and their main regulations on disaster risk reduction, taking into account the extent to which they adopt a human rights-based approach. We argue that countries whose legal frameworks allow for community engagement point towards greater community empowerment. Similarly, countries whose legal provisions make possible for holding States accountable for their underperformance in disaster situations suggest greater levels of accountability. We also consider key international human rights instruments binding the four case studies in order to analyze whether and to what extent international human rights obligations may support advocacy and accountability in disaster risk reduction. Based on the analysis of these case studies we consider that empowerment and accountability processes in drr can reinforce each other, and that human rights may contribute to progress in these areas.

A Human-Rights Based Approach to the Economic Security of Older People in Moldova

10.1596/26039 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Eugenia Dávalos ◽  
Bethany Brown ◽  
Alaka Holla ◽  
Tu Chi Nguyen ◽  
William Seitz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Older People ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

Practical Approaches to Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kotzmann
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter explores the real-life operation of six higher education systems that align with the theoretical models identified in Chapter 2. Three states follow a largely market-based approach: Chile, England, and the United States. Three states follow a largely human rights-based approach: Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. The chapter describes each system in terms of how it aligns with the particular model before evaluating the system in relation to the signs and measures of successful higher education systems identified in Chapter 3. This chapter provides conclusions as to the relative likelihood of each approach facilitating the achievement of higher education teaching and learning purposes.

Human Rights as Land Rights in the Pacific

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D'Arcy May
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The One

Do human rights in their conventional, Western understanding really meet the needs of Pacific peoples? This article argues that land rights are a better clue to those needs. In Aboriginal Australia, Fiji, West Papua and Papua New Guinea, case studies show that people's relationship to land is religious and implicitly theological. The article therefore suggests that rights to land need to be supplemented by rights of the land extending to the earth as the home of the one human community and nature as the matrix of all life.

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