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| 13.12.2011: DOVA, The Human Rights Assessment Instrument on Domestic Violence is launched | |
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Women and children are often in great danger in the place where they should be safest: within their families. They are denied their human rights and their lives are stolen from them by the ever-present threat of violence. Societies and governments often do not recognize domestic violence as a human |
| 05.10.2011: Mapping Violence Against Women: New Tool Published by Rights4Change | |
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A new tool entitled Mapping Violence Against Women has just been launched by Rights4Change (R4C). |
| 23.08.2011: Call for Papers: Human Rights & Impact Assessment | |
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Call for papers for a special issue of the journal Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (IAPA) which will focus on the relationship between human rights and impact assessment, including human rights impact assessment (HRIA). |
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| 20.08.2011: Special Rapporteur on the right to food - Public consultation | |
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Draft Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments of Trade and Investment Agreements posted for consultation |
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| 04.05.2011: Local DOVA Network Established in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | |
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DOVA, the new human rights assessment instrument on domestic violence, is currently being finalized and is almost ready to be launched to the broader community. But in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, co-developer Anara Moldasheva took advantage of the presence of the co-developer from Rights for Change in the |
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