Good governance and the advancement of human rights go hand in hand, as practical examples documented in the publication released by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) illustrate.
The handbook includes 21 case studies of innovative governance reforms that have helped better protect human rights around the world, in developed as well as developing countries.
The studies explore the links between good governance and human rights in four different areas: democratic i more...
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This paper discusses the issue of promoting languages and cultures through ICTs, on local and global levels as well as from technological, educational, cultural, and developmental viewpoints. It provides background information on ICTs, globalization, and indigenous populations.
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During my studies, I went to one of the local courts to attend a proceeding for the seizure of a widow’s property. Seated in one of the benches was a frail looking woman whom I could tell had been sobbing. When the court house was empty, as the matters for the day had been completed, I passed her on my way out; she did not even noticed my presence until I tapped her shoulder, then without lifting her bowed head she said, “I don’t have anywhere to go; they should have dug a grave for me als more...
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This paper discusses the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The paper was presented at a summit in Japan and pays particular attention to the G8 and the role they can play. It is stressed that the UNDRIP should be the framework to guide the G8 in everything they do which impacts directly on indigenous peoples. As climate change, the global food crisis, financial instability and the present day conflicts are mainly caused by the economic and politic more...
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From refugee to human rights activist - Binota Moy Dhamai, a Tripura from Bangladesh.
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The pre-Inca Paracas culture developed along the Peru coastal plain in the last centuries BC. It was succeeded by the Nazca culture that flourished until around 600 AD. Gradually, most evidence of the existence of these peoples was lost to the desert. But although their adobe buildings have crumbled, the dry ground has preserved some of their buried mortal remains. Many Paracas and Nazca graves have now been discovered and plundered by grave robbers.
Skulls, bones and bodies, some preserve more...
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'Land of the Four Quarters' or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and reached west to east from the dry coastal desert called Atacama to the steamy Amazonian rain forest. At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest nation on Earth and remains the largest native state to have existed in the western hemisphere. The wealth and sophistication of the leg more...
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