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Human Rights Protection

Our research on human rights protection focuses on cross-cutting foundational and practical questions of how protection regimes and mechanisms deal with new and ‘burning’ issues in the interest of victims. It looks at protection at national and international levels in the context of armed conflict and law enforcement and aims at informing the work of the UN Human Rights Council.

A woman worker at a construction site in India

© ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee

Human Rights and Gender Equality in the Context of Business Activities
Séléka rebels patrol in the town of Bria, Central African Republic (CAR).

MSF

Human Rights Responsibilities and Armed Non-State Actors
Wheat field

Daniel Taylor

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and the Protection of the Right to Seeds in Europe
A wheelchair completely destroyed after the bombing of a civilian area

Medical Aid for Palestinians / Ezz Al Zanoon

Disability and Armed Conflict
Data connections with a man's shadow on the back

Hugo Escalpelo

HUMAN RIGHTS, BIG DATA AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECT
Human Rights Council: a general view of the room XX during the 31st regular opening of session, Geneva, Switzerland

UN Photo / Pierre Albouy

Universality in the Human Rights Council
Chittagong (Bangladesh) ship breaking yard

Adam Cohn

A Practitioners' Guide on Human Rights and Countering Corruption
Senegal, Ziguinchor area, Bignona Department, Kataba 1 municipality, Kouram village. A woman works in a vegetable garden as part of an economic security programme.

ICRC

Towards Food Sustainability: Reshaping the Coexistence of Different Food Systems in South America and Africa
Somalia, Bakool region, Hudur village. Woman selling products at market.

ICRC

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
Libya, Misrata, Tripoli Street. After a battle between members of the armed opposition and government forces.

ICRC

The War Report
Rwanda, on the outskirts of Kigali, Wa-Jali. Jeanne Françoise, a young girl reunited two years ago with her grandmother by the ICRC, stands in a banana orchard near her house.

ICRC

Development and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICRC

The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary

Completed in March 2018

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Crown Copyright

Autonomous Weapon Systems under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law

Completed in May 2017

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ICRC

Armed Non-State Actors and the Human Rights Council

Completed in December 2016

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Control Arms

The Arms Trade Treaty

Completed in September 2016

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Sandra Pointet / Geneva Academy

The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

Completed in May 2016

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ICRC

Police Use of Force

Completed in December 2015

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U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers

Support to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence

Completed in December 2015

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ICRC

Armed Non-State Actors and the Protection of Civilians

Completed in December 2015

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ICRC

Standards of Proof in Fact Finding

Completed in December 2015

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ICRC

Protection of Education in Armed Conflict

Completed in December 2014

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The U.S. Army

The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers

Completed in December 2010

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