Human Rights

The European Union is founded on a strong engagement to promote and protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law worldwide. Human rights and democracy are inextricably connected. Only in a democracy can individuals fully claim and realise their civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. Only when human rights are respected can democracy flourish.

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Human rights based approaches - Human rights defenders - Human rights dialogue

Developing gender‐equitable legal frameworks for land tenure: A Legal Assessment Tool

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 12 September 2016

Published on March 2016, this paper aims to deepen the understanding on women’s access to land and to analyse how adjustments in the legal framework regulating women’s land tenure can promote their economic empowerment and ultimately generate more productive agricultural systems. As underlined in...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
Leave no one behind: reaching children, women and persons with disabilities through EU aid (Training for EU Staff)

Alicia Martin Diaz created a new event | 5 September 2016

24 Oct

From 24 October 2016 to 27 October 2016
Organised by DEVCO B3 and B1

Syslog N°: 515583 Day 1: context and policy framework guiding EU work from a rights-based approach, focusing on inequalities and anti-discrimination (focusing on gender, child rights, and rights of persons with disabilities); the challenges in their implementation, the link with the SDGs and...

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Group: Disability and Development Network
Delivering development aid through case reporting

Amouzou Bedi updated the news | 27 August 2016

If Human development is defined as the process of enlarging people’s freedoms and opportunities and improving their social justice, economic and environmental well-being, citizens have to participate, and decide worldwide who to be, what to do, and how to live individual and together to reach...

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Project: Development Aid Support Mechanism
Trade Unions as actors of development education and awareness raising for global solidarity

TUDCN Communicates updated the Information | 18 August 2016

There is a wealth of campaigns lead by trade unions that aim to raise awareness of the realities of development. These campaigns often result in direct North-South partnerships between trade unions in developed and developing countries. The Trade Union Development Cooperation Network has recently...

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Group: EU DEAR Programme Group
Trade Unions as actors of development education and awareness raising for global solidarity

TUDCN Communicates posted Information | 12 August 2016

There is a wealth of campaigns lead by trade unions that aim to raise awareness of the realities of development. These campaigns often result in direct North-South partnerships between trade unions in developed and developing countries. The Trade Union Development Cooperation Network has recently...

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Group: EU DEAR Programme Group
Trade unions as actors of development education and awareness raising for global solidarity

TUDCN Communicates uploaded a new Document | 12 August 2016

tudcn_brochure_dear_2016_en.pdf 1.74 MB

There is a wealth of campaigns lead by trade unions that aim to raise awareness of life's realities in developing countries. These campaigns often result in direct North-South partnerships between trade unions in developed and developing countries. The Trade Union Development Cooperation Network...

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Group: EU DEAR Programme Group
On dangerous ground

Giorgia MEI posted Information | 9 August 2016

Published on 20 June 2016, this report from Global Witness considers that 2015 was the worst year on record for violence directed at land and environmental activists. It documents 185 killings across 16 countries, a 59% increase on 2014 and the highest annual toll on record. On average, more than...

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Group: Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA
MUSIQUE - NON A L'EXCISION

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 26 April 2016

A song against FGM from a famous reggae band in Ivory Coast. "NON A L'EXCISION" by Tiken Jah Fakoly Paroles de la chanson Non A L'Excision : Elles sont venues les femmes Avec un grand couteau Elle a bien cru qu'elle allait Y laisser sa peau Et puis ce matin Il a fallu qu’elles entrent Pour couper...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
Gender & Justice

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 25 April 2016

In pursuit of Justice - In every region, there are laws that discriminate against women, in relation to property, the family, employment and citizenship. Too often, justice institutions, including the police and the courts, deny women justice. The Legal Framework laws can play a positive role in...

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Group: Public Group on Gender
High-level Conference on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector

Milena Pirolli updated the event | 24 April 2016

25 Apr

From 25 April 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by DG DEVCO

On Monday the 25 th April the Commission will host the first High-level Conference on responsible supply chain management in the garment sector, one day after the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. The Conference will promote successful existing initiatives,...

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Group: Platform on Responsible Management of the Supply Chain in the Garment Sector

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