Collective Work & Discussions

Thank you to everyone who participated in May's discussion on Integrating Rights Monitoring Into the Policy Cycle. The significance of Mexico City's efforts to...

Introducing a Rights Based Approach (RBA) into public policies requires incorporating the principles, standards and guidelines emanating from the existing international human rights conventions, as well as other regional and international human rights bodies’ rulings...

Many thanks for everyone who commented on What does the Post-2015 ‘Data Revolution’ Mean for Human Rights Monitoring? There were some interesting examples shared about how data can be used to assess human rights compliance, such as Maternal Mortality...

The Citizen Voice and Action approach is a social accountability model targeted to local schools and health clinics (or local water authority or government

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Coursera and the University of Michigan are partnering to conduct a free online course, "Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys" regarding  basic elements of designing and evaluating...

Media Democracy Fund, the Ford Foundation, and Open Society Foundations have issued a Call for Proposals for a study of big-data and the practices around large-scale...

Organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (joint center of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva), this...

Mobile phones and other mobile devices are all around us. Almost everyone, from a 13-year old in Brooklyn, to a 65-year old in Dar es Salaam...