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Manual - Undertaking effective investigations

Requirements for an effective investigations team

Identifying issues and deciding whether to investigate

Planning an investigation

Investigative interviewing

Setting up the interview

Organising the interview

Interviewing individuals who fall into a special category

Six principles for effective interviewing

Collecting physical evidence

Visiting a scene and collecting evidence

Writing an effective investigation report

Mainstreaming gender in NHRI investigations

Conducting Virtual Investigations

Conducting investigative interviews virtually

Mendez Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations

Navigating the UN system

What are the special procedures?

Special procedures

SCA Rules of Procedure

Statement of Compliance (SOC) Template

SCA Procedure for Challenge Before the Bureau

SCA Practice Note 1 - Deferrals

SCA Practice Note 4 - NHRIs in Transition

SCA Practice Note 2 - Special Reviews

SCA Practice Note 5 - Sources of information to assess the performance of NHRIs

SCA Practice Note 3 - Assessing the Performance of NHRIs

A practical guide to the work of the SCA

Gender-disaggregated data case studies

Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit - Toolkit

Forming your Gender Audit team

Human rights principles to guide a Gender Audit

Concepts, Terms and Definitions

Understanding Trauma and Self-care

Mental health for human rights actors - Webinar series

Paris Principles

New book: National Human Rights Institutions - Rules, Requirements, and Practice

What are the Paris Principles - videos

Who are environmental defenders?

Women Human Rights Defenders protection approaches

Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders

Establishing HRD focal point staff at NHRIs

Protection of Human Rights Defenders: Best practice and lessons learned

Report violations to the international human rights machinery on HRDs

NHRIs and the Protection of HRDs: Insights from Indonesia and Thailand

Secure management of information from HRDs

Monitoring the situation of HRDs: Case study from Kenya

NHRI reprisals as HRDs

Mongolia: Human Rights Defenders Law

The Situation Of Human Rights Defenders Working To Address Violence Based On Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity In Kenya

The Marrakech Declaration

The APF Regional Action Plan on Human Rights Defenders

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders 2019

Front Line Defenders 2020 Global Analysis

Operational Guidelines - Regional Action Plan on Human Rights Defenders (RAP)

NHRIs are HRDs

What is an Early Warning System (EWS) for HRDs?

Defining Human Rights Focal Points

Model law on Human Rights Defenders

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders 2016

Countering narratives against HRDs

UN declaration on Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)

Online course on Business and Human Rights

Reporting Business and Human Rights: A Handbook

Principles and Guidelines on the protection of migrants in vulnerable situations

Emergency measures and COVID 19 - guidance document

The human rights dimensions of COVID-19

COVID-19 and NHRIs study

Guiding principles on internal displacement

Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons

The Pinheiro Principles

Understanding sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics

Being L, G and B in Asia Pacific

Being transgender in Asia Pacific

Being intersex in Asia Pacific

International and regional developments in human rights law

The Yogyakarta Principles

The APF’s response to the Yogyakarta Principles

What more NHRIs can do

COVID-19 & LBGTI people

IGM Fact Sheet 1 - NHRIs: Trusted partners for change

IGM Fact Sheet 2 - Introducing the right to a healthy environment

IGM Fact Sheet 3 - ASEAN and human rights

IGM Fact Sheet 4 - The Pacific Islands Forum

IGM Fact Sheet 5 - Climate change and human rights

IGM Fact Sheet 6 - The Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights

Introducing the Intergovernmental Mechanisms Project

IGM Project - Baseline Assessment

NHRI engagement with regional mechanisms

NHRIs and environmental rights course

The human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment - HRC resolution

The Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment

How are human rights impacted by climate change?

The Aarhus Convention

The UN Special Rapportuer on the Right to a Healthy Environment

The Human Rights to Healthy Environment in Southeast Asia: National Human Rights Institutions

Escazú Regional Agreement

Compendium of actions to address climate change and protect human rights

GANHRI Statement - Climate Change: The role of National Human Rights Institutions

Addressing Climate Change – UN Special Procedures

NHRI COP26 Symposium

Practical Guidance for NHRIs on Climate Change

Climate change and Human Rights: Contributions from NHRIs

Climate mobility and displacement

The Genenva Conventions and their commentarie

Defining humanitarian action

Glossary of humanitarian terms

Human Rights Based Approach to disaster management in New Zealand

CHR Philippines and Typhoon Yolanda

Integrating humanitarian action into general operations - Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR)

Gender considerations in humanitarian action

IASC Operational Guidelines on Protection of Persons in Natural Disasters

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

IASC Guidelines on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in humanitarian action

Vulernable groups in humanitarian emergencies

Humanitarian principles and standards

Human rights issues

Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)

Resources related to the protection and promotion of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)

24 articles by 1 author

Business and Human Rights (BHR)

Resources relating to Business and Human Rights

2 articles by 1 author

Migrant workers

Resources related to the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers

1 article by 1 author

COVID 19

Resources related to human rights concerns as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic.

3 articles by 1 author

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

Resources related to the protection and promotion of rights related to IDps

3 articles by 1 author

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)

In this space you will find relevant resources related to promoting and protecting SOGIESC rights

9 articles by 1 author

The right to a healthy environment

Resources on the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

17 articles by 2 authors

Human rights and climate change

Resources on the relationship between human rights and climate change.

7 articles by 1 author

NHRIs in Humanitarian action

NHRIs can be important human rights actors in humanitarian action. Here you will find resources related to humanitarian action.

12 articles by 1 author