The Measurement and Human Rights Program (MHR) is designed to bring evidence-based policy and programming to the realm of human rights.
The MHR Program, aims to frame the discussion on the role of systematic assessment techniques in human rights work, by addressing some of the most basic and yet most difficult questions in the field:
- How can we collect solid evidence of human rights violations?
- How do we measure progress in promoting human rights ?
- How can organizations assess their own impact more effectively?
The Program has worked with leading academics and practitioners in the human rights field, promoting the systematic use of solid research methodology, data collection, and analysis in formulating human rights policies.
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| MHR Current activities |
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High-level Expert consultation on elaboration of criteria and operational sub-criteria for the implementation of the right to development
Harvard Kennedy School
17-18 December 2009
By invitation only
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| MHR Current Activities |
New MHR Project
STAT-COM
Measuring States Compliance with International Human Rights Bodies.
Despite an increased demand and burden on these institutions there are very few instruments to monitor states’ compliance the rulings and recommendations handed down by the UN treaty bodies, UN special rapporteurs and regional human rights courts.
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ISSUE PAPER
Making the Courts Count:
International Human Rights Tribunals and the Problem of Measuring Compliance
Courtney Hillebrecht
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MHR Seminar
Developing Evidence Based Child Protection Policy: engaging communities and policymakers in Sierra Leone.
A conversation on how evidence and research can inform policymaking in developing nations, based on the recent activity in Sierra Leone for the United Nations Children's Fund.
MHR Fellows Workshop
Making Courts Count: International Human Rights Tribunals and the Problem of Measuring Compliance
This presentation addresses two critical concerns of international human rights tribunals: 1) Compliance with their rulings, and 2) Measuring the impact that the courts have on domestic politics and the protection of human rights. With MHR Fellow Courtney Hillebrecht.
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| MHR Issue Papers |
Quick dissemination pieces
intended to stimulate policy discussion
on evidence-based policy
and programming to the
realm of human rights policy.
* MHR Associate Research Fellow 2009
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| Recent Program Areas of Interest: Policy Implementation |
Measuring Human Rights in Mexico
EGAP and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government are working together on a research and policy project on the measurement of human rights and the implementation of the National Program for Human Rights (PNDH) in Mexico. The collaboration, led by the Measurement and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center and EGAP/Campus Estado de Mexico is being carried out under the cooperative agreement between EGAP and the Harvard Kennedy School. The effort seeks to develop evidence-based tools to guide the role of systematic assessment techniques in human rights work.
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| Recent Program Areas of Interest: Children's Rights |
Children Involved in Armed Conflict
There are formidable challenges to implementing programs that aim to reintegrate children formerly associated with armed forces and groups in post-conflict states. Moreover, there are formidable challenges in measuring the effectiveness of such programs.
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Children without a State:
Undocumented and Unregistered Children
The impact of inadequate documentation and registration on children is an under-researched but emerging issue in the area of human rights policy and child protection. With the growth of irregular migration and the escalation of concerns regarding global security and anti-terrorism, proof of identity and of legal status and nationality are increasingly key aspects of human security.
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| Studies on Measuring Human Rights |
Human Development Repor 2009
Overcoming barriers:
Human mobility and development
Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international debates, and is the topic of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR09).
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