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Human rights indicators in development : an introduction /

Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization, both qualitatively and quantitatively. They offer an empirical or evidence-based dimension to the normative content of human rights legal obligati...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McInerney-Lankford, Siobhán Alice, 1974-
Corporate Author: World Bank
Other Authors: Sano, H.-O. (Hans-Otto)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2010.
Series:World Bank e-Library.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization, both qualitatively and quantitatively. They offer an empirical or evidence-based dimension to the normative content of human rights legal obligations and a provide means of connecting those obligations with empirical data and evidence, and in this way relate to human rights accountability and the enforcement of human rights obligations. Human rights indicators are important both for assessment and diagnostic purposes: the assessment function.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 79 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780821386040
0821386042
9780821385760
0821385763
1282906291
9781282906297
9786612906299
6612906294