Bøker av United Nations: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

With hundreds of references to the jurisprudence of United Nations human rights mechanisms, this handbook provides human rights and electoral practitioners with a clear picture of the close interplay between elections and international human rights law.

The first UN publication on casualty recording methodology. It provides a "how to" guide for actors that are doing or considering establishing a casualty recording system, or that want to better understand what casualty recording is and its purpose.

Official records of the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Explores human rights in the context of constitution making. The book notes the important role of participatory processes which should be designed to ensure that consultations with a wide variety of interest groups and vulnerable parts of the populations take place when a new constitution is drafted.

Reproduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the nine core international human rights treaties and their optional protocols in a user-friendly format to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.