Interview with Stephen Humphreys, Research Director, International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva and Ulrik Halsteen, Human Rights & Social and Economic Issues Unit, OHCHR, Geneva.
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No. 7: The Human Rights Dimension of Climate Change
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No. 6: “The Global Economic Crisis through a Human Rights Lens”
April 27th, 2009Interview with Daniel Seymour, Chief, Gender and Rights Unit Division of Policy and Practice UNICEF New York and Professor Radhika Balakrishnan, Professor of Economics and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College, US.
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No. 5: The Contribution of Human Rights to Overcoming the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis
April 23rd, 2009Interview with the UN Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation - Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque- and Kerubo Okioga, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, (COHRE) Kenya
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No. 4: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
April 23rd, 2009Article based on interview with Christian Courtis & Ulrik Halsteen OHCHR, Human Rights & Social and Economic Issues Unit & Claire Mahon, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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No. 3: The Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council: What is it and how can UNCTs engage in the process?
April 23rd, 2009Article based on input from Elena Ippoliti and Erik Friberg, Universal Periodic Review Team, Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Zanofer Ismalebbe UNDP Geneva and interviews with Guillermo Fernandez-Maldonado, Human Rights Advisor, OHCHR, Ecuador, and Mohammed Al-Sharif, Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP Bahrain.
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No. 2: The Challenge of Rising Food Prices and Food Insecurity: What do Human Rights have to do with it?
April 23rd, 2009Article based on input from Barbara Ekwall, Coordinator and Margret Vidar, Human Rights Advisor, Right to Food Unit , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Additional contributions received with thanks from:
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food; Daniel Seymour, Gender and Rights Unit, UNICEF; Asako Hattori, OHCHR; Sally-Anne Way, Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), and Claire Mahon, Research Group on the Right to Food, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies -
No. 1: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
April 23rd, 2009Interview with Simon Walker, Advisor on Human Rights and Disability at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and Vittoria Beria, Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
