Making the Law Work For Everyone ( 1.45 MB)
The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) Report
The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor presented - a group co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto- Making the Law Work for Everyone to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The report finds that four billion people – presents their final report, entitled Making the Law Work for Everyone. The report finds that the majority of the world’s people are excluded from the rule of law. Through the report, the Commission calls on local governments, international institutions and civil society to make legal empowerment a top agenda item in the fight against global poverty. Making the Law Work for Everyone lays out a comprehensive framework for legal empowerment, with four vital and mutually reinforcing pillars: access to justice and the rule of law; property rights; labour rights; and business rights.
 

The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-conflict Societies ( 153 KB)
The UN Secretary General Reports - 23 August 2004
This report was developed in response to a discussion within the Security Council on the United Nations role in establishing justice and the rule of law in postconflict societies. It aims to provide a lessons learnt drawn from the United Nations's expertise and experience on the relevant issues that could be built upon. The report also accommodated the Security Council country members' views expressed in 26 January 2004 Security Council meeting on "Postconflict national reconciliation: the role of the United Nations."
 

Strengthening the Rule of Law in Conflict/Post-conflict Situations ( 727 KB)
A UNDP Global Programme
This Global Programme outlines UNDP's services to rule of law programming in conflict- and post-conflict situations within its Crisis Prevention & Recovery mandate. It is a living document and will continuously be reviewed and updated on the basis of best practices and lessons learned from the field.
 

Human Rights in UNDP ( 290 KB)
UNDP Practice Note
UNDP issued its policy of integrating human rights with human development in January 1998. Since then, human rights have emerged as a key concern of the organisation’s development activities. Underlying UNDP’s commitment to the integration of human rights with human development is the international human rights machinery.With this Note, UNDP confirms its original policy position and elaborates, on the basis of experience, how this policy is to be implemented in three strategic areas of intervention covering UNDPs work on human rights and human rights mainstreaming.
 

Frequently Asked Questions on a Human Rights Based Approach to Development Cooperation ( 1 MB)
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
This publication aims to advance the shared understanding on how the goals of human rights and development can be achieved through more effective development cooperation, within wider strategies and coalitions for change.
 

Access to Justice ( 290 KB)
UNDP Practice Note
UNDP is committed to using a human rights-based approach in its programming, guided by international human rights standards and principles. Access to justice is a basic human right as well as an indispensable means to combat poverty, prevent and resolve conflicts. This practice note is intended to suggest strategies for UNDP support to access to justice, particularly for the poor and disadvantaged, including women, children, minorities, persons living with HIV/AIDS and disabilities.
 

Strengthening of the Rule of Law ( 96 KB)
United Nations Framework
The following framework is excerpted from the report of the United Nations Secretary General to the forty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, as contained in United Nations General Assembly document A/49/512 (annex).
 

General Comment No. 31 on Article 2 of the Covenant ( 55 KB)
The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant
This General Comment replaces General Comment No 3, reflecting and developing its principles. The general non-discrimination provisions of article 2, paragraph 1, have been addressed in General Comment 18 and General Comment 28, and this General Comment should be read together with them.
 

Gender Resource Package for Peacekeeping Operations ( 3.2 MB)
United Nations Publication
This gender resource package offers concrete guidance on how to identify the various gender issues in peacekeeping and how to integrate, or mainstream, gender into all aspects of peacekeeping. This improves the effectiveness with which peacekeeping operations discharge their mandates and is, therefore, integral to their success.
 

Beyond the Rule of Law Orthodoxy: Legal Empowerment Alternative ( 510 KB)
Working Papers of Stephen Golub
The papers challenge the paradigm used dominantly amongst international aid field of law and development that focuses too much on law, lawyers, and state institutions. This offers an alternative pardigm that is more balance approach called legal empowerment. This approach focus on the development, poor, and civil society. The papers recommend a paradigm shift amongst the international community in how it integrates law and development.
 

Many Roads to Justice ( 894 KB)
The Law-related Work of Ford Foundation Grantees Around The World
This book showcases Ford Foundation funded projects that use the law as an instrument to advance human rights and social justice. It attempts to convey some of the challenges that those wielding the law for social change purposes have faced and the successes they have achieved. it is more a studied appreciation than a critical analysis of their efforts.
 

Safety, Security and Access to Justice ( 421 KB)
Putting Policy Into Practice - DFID Governance Department
The book emphasises on how to put Safety, Security and Access to Justice policy into practice. It aims to provide practical guidance based on DFID Governance Department's experience so far on the issues which may arise at various stages: ideas to look for; and ways of dealing with common problems. However, it is not a comprehensive, nor is it a manual.
 

Measuring Progress toward Safety and Justice: A Global Guide to the Design of Performance Indicators across the Justice Sector ( 848 KB)
Vera Institute of Justice
This guide is written for DFID programme managers responsible for improving the delivery of safety, security, and access to justice in any part of the world. It should also be useful to a wide variety of government officials and to anyone interested in pursuing a disciplined course of institutional reform in the safety and justice sector. However, it does not prescribe the use of particular indicators for measuring progress toward safety and justice. Instead, the indicators must be the result of a process undertaken in each country and programme. This guide describes that process, explaining the principles that should inform the choice of indicators, and provides examples of possible indicators.