This toolkit is an adaptation of ‘A toolkit on the Right to Health’ first published in 2011 by the Learning Network on Health and Human Rights (as First edition: Toolkit on the Right to Health). This toolkit was designed in response to the need for a practical tool to empower communities in Southern and East… [Read More]
Human Rights Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Human Resources for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Activist Toolkit on Differentiated Service Delivery
The What Works for Me: Activist Toolkit on Differentiated Service Delivery was developed with the aim of strengthening community engagement and demand for recipient–centred models of care, specifically differentiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery. The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA) partnered to produce this toolkit, which… [Read More]
A Free Human Rights Education toolkit: Write for Rights 2018
The Human Rights Education (HRE) Write for Rights (W4R) toolkit was created to support participation with your students in the 2018 campaign. By learning about the lives of others and writing persuasive letters to help end human rights violations and achieve justice, you and your students contribute to the international human rights movement and see… [Read More]
A Free National Action Plan Development Toolkit
National Action Plan Development Toolkit shows how you can use the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda as a tool to promote greater gender justice, peace and freedom for all in your own country. You will find information on how to advocate for the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Community Schools Academy Curriculum
Community Schools Academy Curriculum toolkit is intended to serve as a resource for youth development professionals, youth-serving organizations and educational institutions aiming to develop civic engagement and tolerance in young people. The included materials were developed for the Youth Civic Engagement and Dialogue (YCED) Program, which brought together Roma and non-Roma youth (ages 14-18) in… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on HIV and AIDS in Places of Detention
This toolkit on HIV and AIDS in prisons aims to provide information and guidance primarily to individuals and institutions with responsibilities for prisons and prisoners, and to people who work in and with prisons. In addition, it will assist everyone who has anything to do with prisons. It is written primarily for use in low-… [Read More]
A Free Guidebook for the Humanitarian Sector: Towards Gender Equality in Humanitarian Response
The main framework for this guidebook is based on the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) handbook on gender equality and humanitarian action, and it builds on the gender needs assessment survey conducted by the UN Inter-Agency Gender Task Force in March 2009. Main issues that arose from that survey were subsequently discussed in focus groups in… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Scaling Up HIV-Related Legal Services
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide a practical resource to help to improve the quality and impact of HIV-related legal services and to expand their availability. The toolkit provides guidance on factors to be taken into account when designing and scaling up an HIV-related legal services programme. It also provides guidance about different… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions: Reproductive Rights are Human Rights
The purpose of this handbook is to provide national human right institutions with tools and guidance on how to integrate reproductive rights into their work. Reproductive rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international laws and international human rights documents and other consensus documents. These rights rest on the recognition… [Read More]
A Free Human Rights Toolkit For Women and Girls with Disability
Women with Disabilities Australia created this toolkit, Human Rights Toolkit, to support women with disabilities to understand their rights. International human rights law recognizes women and girls with disability as women and girls with rights, able to make decisions about our own lives. The Australian government has agreed to take action to make sure all… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Civil Society: Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme
A Handbook for Civil Society is a new, user-friendly and authoritative publication on United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms – explaining how they work and exploring the many important ways that civil society actors including NGOs can contribute to their work. This publication is addressed to the civil society actors who, every day in… [Read More]
A Free Guide to the Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth
The World Programme of Action for Youth encourages governments to be more responsive to the aspirations and needs of youth to usher in a better world. Young people in all countries are both a major human resource for development and key agents for social change, economic development and technological innovation. Recognizing and addressing the special… [Read More]
Free WHO QualityRights Tool Kit: Assessing and Improving Quality and Human Rights in Mental Health and Social Care Facilities
The aim of the WHO QualityRights tool kit is to support countries in assessing and improving the quality and human rights of their mental health and social care facilities. The tool kit is designed for use in low-, middle- and high-income countries. It can be used by many different stakeholders, including dedicated assessment committees, nongovernmental… [Read More]
A Free Resource Guide on Claiming Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
A Resource Guide to Advancing Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Using the Optional Protocol and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Optional Protocol and International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights. This Guide is one of several initiatives aimed at bringing greater recognition and accountability to… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
This Handbook was prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). This handbook offers a survey of trends, examples, questions for consideration and recommendations to guide national human rights institutions in strengthening their capacity and practical work on women’s rights and gender equality. In 2011, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on the Crime Prevention Guidelines: Making them Work
The present Handbook is one of a series of practical tools developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support countries in the implementation of the standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice. These standards and norms support the rule of law, human rights and a culture of lawfulness… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on Combating Corruption
This handbook provides the 57 OSCE participating States and 11 Partners for Co-operation with a reference guide on available legal tools, the latest legislative and policy trends, and pertinent measures and practices to prevent and suppress corruption. It is aimed at raising awareness of the range of international instruments available to national policymakers and anti-corruption… [Read More]
Gender and Climate Change: Free Toolkit for Women on Climate Change
This toolkit aims to deepen our analysis from a broader and human-centered perspective on this imperative global issue of climate change and the mounting resistance to the corporate-driven false solutions that only deteriorate the catastrophe. In plain language, it provides community-based or grassroots organisations basic information on climate change and how to communicate climate justice… [Read More]
Free National Action Plans Toolkit on Business and Human Rights
The overall goal of this Toolkit is to promote implementation of the UNGPs and other relevant business and human rights frameworks by states and businesses. The 2017 edition has been updated to reflect feedback from practitioners who have used the Toolkit to develop NAPs. Specifically, the Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance on how to develop a… [Read More]
A Free Resilience Building Guide
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc. whilst at the same time encouraging us to work simultaneously at the… [Read More]
