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notebook: Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment

In this notebook we learn about how an international organization called Peace Brigade protects targeted organizations by sending accompaniment of international field workers. This accompaniment allows these organizations to continue to fight human rights abuses while making it harder for governments to target them because of the international presence.

notebook: Making Sense of the Information Wilderness: Library and Information Services for the Improvement of Human Rights Work

In this notebook we learn about how effective libraries and librarians can promote human rights by providing information to people in places where reliable sources are lacking.

notebook: Human Rights and the Corporation: The development of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment

In this notebook Reed Addis describes the development of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment by the Danish Institute for Human Rights. The Compliance Assessment, based somewhat on the model of an Environmental Impact Assessment, was developed through a long process of consultation with businesses from many different industrial sectors, and provides a framework through which businesses can assess their human rights obligations and measure the liabilities and human rights risks in countries where they operate or plan to locate.