Terrorism and Human Development
Resources page prepared by Geneviève Paul,
Bac. en Relations internationales et droit international (BRIDI), 3rd year, UQAM
Intern, The Rights & Democracy Network
Instruments 
Documents Who is doing what Action area
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« Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people [...] » (Preamble)
« Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. » (Article 22)
Instruments
International
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm
Declaration on the right to development
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 41/128 of December 4, 1986
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm
Documents
Publications
Reference documents
A More Secure World: Our Shared ResponsibilityReport of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change - United Nations, December 2, 2004
http://www.un.org/secureworld/report.pdf
Summary: http://www.un.org/secureworld/brochure.pdf
Op-eds: http://www.un.org/secureworld/oped.html
A Development Co-operation Lens on Terrorism Prevention: Key Entry Points for Action DAC Guidelines and Reference Series - OECD, 2003
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/4/16085708.pdf
A CCIC Commentary on A Development Co-operation Lens on Terrorism Prevention: Key Entry Points of Action
A Policy Statement by the Development Assistance Committee -OECD, April 2003
http://www.ccic.ca/e/docs/002_aid_2003-11_ccic_commentary_dac_terror_prevention.pdf
Fighting Terrorism for Humanity: A Conference on the Roots of Evil
- Joint IPA/Government of Norway International Conference, New York City, September 22nd 2003 , Conference Report by William G. O’Neill, IPA
http://www.ipacademy.org/PDF_Reports/Terrorism_web_031218.pdf
Duties sans frontières : Human rights and global social justice
- Draft Report, International Council on Human Rights Policy, May 2003
http://www.ichrp.org/ac/excerpts/137.pdf
Fact Sheet No.16 (Rev.1) - The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) http://www.ohchr.org/english/about/publications/docs/fs16.htm
Other documents
Human Rights and Human Security
Ramcharan Bertrand, Published in Disarmement Forum: Strengthening Disarmament and Security, no.1, 2004
http://www.unidir.ch/pdf/articles/pdf-art2018.pdf
Including: “Human rights and the challenges facing the United Nations: Poverty and development” ; “New security challenges: terrorism”
Human security now
- Commission on Human Security, 2003
http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/finalreport/FinalReport.pdf
See : Chapter 5 “Economic security-the power to choose among opportunities”, Chapter 6 “Better health for human security” and Chapter 7 “Knowledge, skills and values for human security”
Human Security: safety for people in a changing world
- Foreign Affairs Canada
http://www.humansecurity.gc.ca/safety_changingworld-en.asp
Declaration of the Netherlands Helsinki Committe : “A resolvable Conflict”
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
http://www.ihf-hr.org/booklet/hrt21.php
Human Rights : a uniting framework Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Follow-up to the World Conference on Human, February 27, 2002
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/...
See: Chapter III d. “Fulfilling human rights commitments” and Chapter IV “Final Remarks”
Human Development Report 2000, Human rights and human development
- United Nations Development Programme (UNPD)
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2000/en
See: Chapter 1 “Human Rights and human development”, Chapter 4 “Rights empowering in the fight against poverty” and Chapter 6 “Promoting rights in human development”
Rights and Democracy
Promoting Human Rights and Democracy in the Context of Terrorism
Report of Rights & Democracy's Think Tank by Iris Almeida and Lloyd Lipsett, Ottawa, May 30, 2002 http://serveur.ichrdd.ca/english/prog/intHRadvocacy/thinkTank2002FinalReportEng.pdf
A Canadian foreign policy founded upon the bedrock of human rights, democratic development, renewed multilateralism, and the sharing of the growth and prosperity
Rights & Democracy, Proposed by the Honourable Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2003
http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/intHRadvocacy/Dialogue2003.html
See: 2.c.i) “Reinforce the conditions of security” ; “Human Rights, democratic values and security”
Who is doing what ?
References Websites and Networks
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
http://www.escr-net.org/EngGeneral/home.asp
Human Rights Internet – Human Rights and Development
http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx
United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Terrorism and Human Rights
http://www.unhchr.ch/terrorism/index.html
Intergovernmental Organisations
Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development
http://www.oas.org/main/main.asp?sLang=F&sLink=http://www.oas.org/key_issues/eng
Individuals
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
http://www.nobel.no/eng_lau_list.html
Rights and Democracy
John Humphrey Freedom Award
http://www.ichrdd.ca/frame2.iphtml?langue=0&menu=m05&urlpage=english/about/brochureHumphrey2001.html
Action Area
The Rights and Democracy Network in action
"Engaging University Students in the Continuing Dialogue on Canada's Foreign Policy Development."
November 1, 2004 to March 30, 2005
A Rights & Democracy Network Initiative.
