Developed by Breakthrough, this toolkit is a training module to raise awareness of early marriage among non-governmental organisations, community workers, and teachers in India, and build their capacity to address the issue. Early marriage is sometimes referred to as child marriage. As per the law any marriage for girls who are below the age of… [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 Handbook on Realizing Indigenous Women’s Rights: CEDAW and Indigenous Women
A guide to using International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to defend and protect the rights of indigenous women, published by the Asian Indigenous Women’s Network (AIWN), Tebtebba Foundation and the Forest Peoples Programme. This handbook is an introduction to the human rights of indigenous women. As an… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for Monitoring Administrative Justice
This handbook provides an overview of main fair trial rights and OSCE commitments applicable to judicial hearings within administrative justice, as well as practical information for establishing and running a trial monitoring operation in the field of administrative justice. The handbook is based on international, European and other regional standards, including OSCE commitments, as well… [Read More]
A Free Handbook on How to Prevent Human Trafficking for Domestic Servitude in Diplomatic Households and Protect Private Domestic Workers
The aim of this handbook is to raise awareness of how host states can regulate and monitor the employment conditions of private domestic workers in diplomatic households. It highlights how protocol departments and similar authorities can prevent exploitation or abuse and what can be done if it occurs. The purpose of this handbook is to… [Read More]
A Free Global Faces of Inequality Campaign Toolkit
The global Faces of Inequality Campaign aims to target inequalities in all its different forms – gender, income, wealth, geographical, environmental, abilities, political, ethnic, and other discriminations. Aims Faces of Inequality aims: To give social exclusion, poverty and discrimination a face. To give people suffering from inequalities and their fight for rights and justice a… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Guide: Community-Based TB/HIV Integration
This guide is one in a series of good practice guides produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance). This series brings together expertise from global community-level HIV programming to define and guide good practice in a range of technical areas, including: Human rights and GIPA, HIV prevention, Sexual and reproductive health and rights and… [Read More]
A Free Good Practice Guide: HIV and Human Rights
This guide is a practical tool for HIV programmers to help you to respond to human rights within your HIV and broader health programmes. It was developed by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA). The Guide provides a clear rationale for the integration of human… [Read More]
A Free NGO Guide to EU Policies and Actions: The Education of Migrant Children
This guide is intended as a tool for better understanding EU policies, responsibilities, and funding mechanisms related to the education of migrant children and youth within existing EU agendas on human rights, equal treatment, antidiscrimination, integration, social inclusion, and education and training. In response to these trends and as part of the Open Society Foundations’… [Read More]
A Free Practitioner’s Toolkit on Women’s Access to Justice Programming
A practitioner’s toolkit on women’s access to justice programming”, developed jointly by UN Women, UNDP, UNODC, and OHCHR, and launched by Nicole Ameline, a member of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) during the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, demonstrates that these… [Read More]
A Free User Guide: The People Living with HIV Stigma Index
The stigma index collects information about the experiences of people living with HIV related to stigma, discrimination and human rights. It is for use by and with people living with HIV. The guide contains tools and an agenda for training people who will conduct the survey, and explains how to use the results for advocacy…. [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on Indigenous Women’s Rights in Africa
Forest Peoples Programme has created this toolkit to help indigenous women in Africa to better understand the African human rights system and how to use it effectively to secure their rights. Indigenous women form one of the most vulnerable groups on the African continent. They face multiple forms of discrimination associated especially with their indigenous… [Read More]
A Free Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability Training Toolkit
This toolkit — Youth Activism for Lebanese Accountability (YALA): An Inclusive Civic Engagement Training Curriculum — is about creating change through activism and accountability. It is about creating change at the individual, institutional, and socio-political level by providing young people with the knowledge and skills to help shape the future of their country. It was… [Read More]
A Free Deliver+Enable Toolkit: Scaling up Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
This toolkit offers guidance and resources on ways to deliver CSE for children, adolescents, and youth in non-formal and formal settings and encourage other stakeholders to develop and implement CSE policies and programmes. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has gained global recognition as a vital effort to empower adolescents and young people; enable them to improve… [Read More]
A Free Toolkits for Human Rights Education
Amnesty International’s “Write for Rights” campaign takes place annually around 10 December, which is Human Rights Day (commemorating the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948). Write for Rights aims to bring about change to the lives of people or communities that have suffered or are at risk of human… [Read More]
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A Free Guide to Reporting Civic Space: Media Toolkit
This toolkit was produced by CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, as part of the Civic Space Initiative (CSI). A partnership between CIVICUS, the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), ARTICLE 19, and the World Movement for Democracy, The Civic Space Initiative (CSI) is working to protect and expand civic space by fostering an enabling… [Read More]
A Free Handbook for NGOs and CSOs: Engaging Africa-based Human Rights Mechanisms
This publication was produced under the ”Consolidating Civil Society’s Role in the Transition from African Human Rights Standards to Practice project”, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the International Commission of Jurists – European Institutions (ICJ-EI), the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS), the ICJ Kenya Section and the… [Read More]
A Free Training Guide: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has developed this Training Guide in response. It seeks to provide basic information on a rights-based approach to disability, on the fundamental elements of the Convention and its Optional Protocol, and on the processes and issues underlying their ratification, implementation and monitoring. Consequently,… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Protection of Persons with Disabilities
This toolkit is primarily intended for use by Handicap International staff and key partners. Any dissemination beyond its original objective should take place in consultation with Handicap International Sri Lanka. Objectives Raising awareness of protection framework and basic principles; Increasing understanding of particular protection risks faced by Persons with Disabilities; Providing guidance on identification, assessment,… [Read More]
A Free Disability Inclusive Development Toolkit
Disability inclusion is part of a wider movement for inclusive development that strives for the active participation and representation of all people regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, race, class, religion, sexuality or any other characteristic. Disability-inclusive development is part of this social justice movement that challenges unjust systems and exclusive policies, relations and practice. Disability… [Read More]
