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When Needs Are Rights: An Overview of UN Efforts to Integrate Human Rights
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TITLE: When Needs Are Rights: An Overview of UN Efforts to Integrate Human Rights in Humanitarian Action (Occasional Paper 38)
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ABSTRACT |
| In mid-1997, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced a series of reforms, including a mandate that human rights be integrated more fully, or "mainstreamed," into the work of the UN system. This study reviews the uptake on that mandate by four humanitarian organizations (UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, and WFP) and four secretariat units (DPA, DPKO, OCHA, and OHCHR). It finds considerable unevenness in the interpretation of the mandate and in its implementation in the policy and operations of these entities. | |
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The UN system is encouraged to develop a strategy for the system-wide integration of human rights, with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights playing an expanded leadership role and interagency mechanisms (the Executive Committees and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee) more fully engaged. The study was published jointly with the International Human Rights Trust of Dublin.
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humanitarian principles, human rights, humanitarian access, coordination, relief-to-development continuum, UN Charter, universality, accountability, professionalism; Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda; UN, UN Security Council, UN Executive Committees, IASC, OHCHR, OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, WFP, DPA, DPKO, UN Executive Committees, IASC, NGOs, Red Cross Movement.
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