1. The Principles of Humanitarian Action;
2. Introduction to International Law;
3. Introduction to International Humanitarian Law;
4. Introduction to Human Rights Law;
5. The Importance of Data Collection in MSF; Techniques of Fact-Finding, Monitoring and Reporting;
6. Enforcement of IHL/HRW Law;
7. Key Implementation Mechanisms.

Developed by UNICEF Office of Emergency Programmes and the Division of Human Resources.

Includes a comprehensive trainer's guide. Consists of eight sessions and includes an evaluation component and numerous handouts and practical exercises.

The eight sessions include:

1. Protection in the context of complex emergencies
2. Humanitarian Principles
3. International Law (note: includes discussion of the obligation of states, international conventions, basics of treaty and customary law, the UN Charter, and the role of the UN Security Council.
4. International Humanitarian Law
5. The Human Rights Framework
6. Humanitarian Access and Working with Non-State Entities
7. Protecting Children in Situations of Armed Conflict
8. Developing Strategies: Ten Steps for Moving Forward
10. Note: Available on CD-ROM in a miniature form (easy to carry in the field)
12. Length: 251 pages including exercises and handouts (plus overheads)

Part I -Overview
Who is a Refugee?
What is International Protection?
Who is Responsible for Protecting Refugees?

Part II: Protecting Refugees
Pre-flight and flight
Arrival
Mass arrival
Asylum
Solutions (voluntary repatriation, those who do not wish to repatriate, evacuation or return under difficult conditions)
Returnees
Local integration
Resettlement

Part III: Special Protection Issues
Protecting refugee women
Protecting refugee children and adolescents
Protecting Older Refugees
Protecting Internally Displaced Persons
Statelessness

Part IV: Frequently Asked Questions
Part V: Glossary of Key Protection-Related Terms

Comments: Currently in use in field level training in a partnership among the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Rescue Committee and others through the ReachOut Protection Support Project.

Includes checklists; sections that guide the more interested reader to additional resources (entitled "If you want to know more about…." ); frequently asked questions and a glossary. The book is of small size and has a plastic cover and is thus easy to carry in the field. The manual includes photographs and has blank pages for personal notes.

Modules

1. Introduction to Internal Displacement
2. The Basis for Action in International Law and Humanitarian Principles
3. The Institutional Framework fr Activities on Behalf of Internally Displaced Persons
4. Preventing, or Preparing for, Internal Displacement
5. Protection and Assistance during Internal Displacement
6. Return, Resettlement and Reintegration of Internally Displaced Persons

Each section includes guidelines, a facilitator's introduction, core content material, related activities and/or case studies and overheads.

A dissemination programme is underway at the time of writing as recommended by the January 2001 Inter-agency Workshop on Implementing a Rights Approach in the Context of United Nations Reform.

An initial workshop was attended by representatives of governments, ten UN agencies, and UN Country Teams from Burundi, Cambodia, Colombia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Romania and Venezuela.

The outcome of the workshop provided UNDP with a framework for mainstreaming human rights into the work of UNDP at the HQ level and in the field. UNDP intends to implement the programme in partnership with other UN agencies, governments, international and national NGOs, members of civil society and donor agencies. Training will include UNDP HQ and field staff as well as country-level partners.

Length: 348 pages plus overheads

Human Rights and Refugee Protection Training Module

Part I: General Introduction

Chapter 1: Refugee Protection and Human Rights Law
Chapter 2: Basic Outline of International Human Rights law
Chapter 3: Basic Legal Concepts
Chapter 4: Human Rights Protection at the Regional Level

Comments: Includes self-study questions. Makes it clear that protecting refugees is human rights work

Length: 73 pages

Human Rights and Refugee Protection Training Module

Part II: Specific Issues

Length: 193 pages

Human Rights: A Basic Handbook for UN Staff

Part 1: International Human Rights Standards and their Development
Part 2: United Nations Organs
Part 3: Human Rights Mechanisms
Part 4: United Nations Strategies and Action to Promote Human Rights
Part 5: OHCHR and Partners

Annexes: I. List of International Human Rights Instruments;
II. Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
III: Human Rights Field Operations Contacts;
IV: Model Communication to Human Rights Committee;
Part V: List of Thematic Mandates;
Part VI: List of Country Mandates;
Part VII: Useful internet sites for United Nations Information.

Length: 116 pages

Annex A - The Common Country Assessment Indicator Framework
Annex B - List of Major Conventions, Declarations and Conferences

Length: 26 pages.

Noted due to relevance to coping/capacity/vulnerability issues.

Length: 118 pages plus overheads

Session Plans: Session 1 -Rights, law, and society: basic concepts Session 2- The basis in law for humanitarian principles Session 3 - Law for non-lawyers Session 4 - Humanitarian Principles Session 5 - Individual Ethics, values and coping strategies Session 6 - Organizational options Session 7 - The way forward

Handouts and Activities included
Optional Toolkit (Annexes of optional additional sessions and exercises)

Content:

1. The Evolution of Humanitarian Principles
2. The Basis in Law of Humanitarian Principles
3. International Humanitarian Law
4. Human Rights Law
5. Refugee Law
7. The module includes activities for participants; a trainer 's guide; recommendations to governments, donors, and intern-governmental organizations;
8. and a number of handout materials for trainees on the following topics:
10. Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
11. Summary of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief
12. Sphere: The Humanitarian Charter
13. The Principle of Non-Refoulement
14. Sample Definitions for Humanitarian Principles
15. Some Legal Definitions
16. The Basis in Law for Humanitarian Principles
17. Some Sources for the Legal Instruments
18. Excerpts from the Charter of the United Nations
19. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
20. The Essential Rules of International Humanitarian Law (taken from the ICRC website)
21. The Refugee Conventions
22. Summary of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
23. International Convention on Economic and Social Rights (1966), Excerpts
24. Excerpts from the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Length: 47 pages

Part 1: A search for common ground on protection
Chapter 1: A framework for protection
Chapter 2 : The challenges of complementarity
Chapter 3: The protection framework in practice: accompanying unaccompanied and separated children in emergencies

Part 2: Operational themes: the debates and main conclusions
Chapter 4: The impact of assistance on protection
Chapter 5: Information gathering and practice
Chapter 6: Field presence vs. public denunciation
Chapter 7: Humanitarian action in the event of violations
Chapter 8: Targeted protection and impartiality
Chapter 9: Protection on the spot or evacuation
Chapter 10: Forced relocation and protection
Chapter 11: Restricting field presence and protection
Chapter 12: Withdrawal
Chapter 13: Impunity and Reconciliation
Chapter 14: Promoting and implementing international law

Part 3: Dealing with the environment: the debates and main conclusions
Chapter 15: Informing the media
Chapter 16: Consequences of military involvement in humanitarian activities
Chapter 17: The influence of donors

Appendix 1: Workshop participants
Appendix 2: Suggested reading and list of abbreviations

1. Introduction
2. Background, Legal Framework, Going Beyond Legal Measures, Purpose of the Guidelines, Structure of the Guidelines
3. Assessment and Planning
4. Purpose of the Assessment and Planning Process; Questions to be Answered by Assessment, How and Where to get Information, Evaluating and Using Information
5. Protection Needs and Responses
6. Physical Security, Legal Procedures and Criteria for the Determination of Refugee Status
7. Addressing Protection through Assistance
8. Introduction, Camp Design and Layout, Access to Food and other Distributed Items,
9. Water and Firewood,
10. Access to Appropriate Health Care, Education and Skills Training, Economic Activities
11. Follow-Up and Reporting of Protection Problems
12. Introduction, Planning a Response, Individual Cases, Pattern of Protection Problems,
13. Reporting
15. Length: 67 pages

Declaration on the Right to Development
1. Foundation of Human Rights Protection
2. Nature of Human Rights
3. Major International Human Rights Treaties
4. National Government Obligations
5. Obligations of the International Community
6. Convergence of Human Rights and Development
7. Links between Human Rights and Development
8. Human Rights Approach to Development
9. Macro Level
10. Micro level
11. Summary
12. What a Human Rights Approach is Not
13. Implications for NGOs

Preface and Introduction: Child Care in the Koran and Sunna

Part I: The State and Right of the Child in Islam
Part II: Child Survival and Development
Part III: Nutrition and its Impace on Physical and Mental Health
Part IV: Child Rearing in Islam
Part V: Personal and Environmental Hygiene
Part VI: Index of Koranic Verses, Hadiths, Sunna Best Quotations and Messages According to Subject Headings

Noted due to frequency of request

Length: 101 pages

1. Introduction
2. Different traditions: human rights and humanitarianism
3. Moral and legal rights
4. Human rights in law
5. Responsibility for protection and enforcement
6. Human rights in armed conflict
7. Human rights, refugees and internal displacement
8. Protection and Assistance
9. Conclusion and Recommendations
11. Noted due to relevancy to topic
13. Length: 38 pages

1. Introduction
2. Violent Experiences
3. Coping with Organised Violence
4. Recovery
5. Culture and Traditions
6. Children and Adolescents
7. Providing Psychosocial Support
8. Psychosocial Approaches Which can be used in Different Cultures
9. Annexes:
10. Communications exercises
11. Group Work
12. Educational Approach
13. Relaxation Exercises
15. Noted due to unique focus.
17. Length: 81 pages

To result in a standard one-day basic health and human rights training module for WHO staff, consisting of four sessions with overheads and a bibliography.

A two-day module will also be developed.

Prototypes of specialized health and human rights training modules on a variety of health-related topics using case studies are to be developed.

Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement: Examples from UN Agencies and Partner Organizations of Field-Based Initiatives Supporting Internally Displaced Persons

And

Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

The Manual on Field Practice includes the following sections:

1. Foreward
2. Introduction
3. Compendium of Field Practice Examples
4. General Support for the Guiding Principles
5. Principles Relating to Protection from Displacement
6. Principles Related to Protection and Assistance during Displacement
7. Humanitarian Principles
8. Principles Related to Return, Resettlement and Reintegration
9. Conclusion
10. Reference Bibliography
11. Selected Further Reading
12. Index to Field Examples
13. List of Acronyms
15. The Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
17. Foreword
18. Introduction
19. What is Internal Displacement
20. General Principles
21. Equal Rights and Equal Obligations
22. Universal Application
23. Right to Seek and Enjoy Asylum
24. Sovereignty means Responsibility
25. Protection from Displacement
26. Prevention of Displacement
27. Prohibition of Arbitrary Displacement
28. Identifying Alternatives to Displacement
29. Consultation with the Affected Parties
30. Minimising Displacement and its Adverse Effects
31. En Route
32. Relocation Sites
33. Planning
34. Decision-making
35. Review of Decisions
36. Indigenous Peoples and Other Special Populations
37. Protection During Displacement
38. Enhancing Protection of Physical Security and Freedom of Movement
39. Right to Life
40. Right to Dignity and Integrity of Person
41. Protection against Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
42. Choice of Residence
43. Protection Against Forcible Return
44. Protection from Forced Military Recruitment
45. Preserving Family and Community
46. Family Unity
47. Family Reunification
48. Rights of Children
49. Sanctity of Mortal Remains and Gravesites
50. Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
51. An Adequate Standard of Living
52. Right to Health and Medical Care
53. Participation of Women
54. Right to Work
55. Property Rights
56. Right to Education
57. Protecting Basic Freedoms
58. Recognition before the Law
59. Civil and Political Rights

-in association with

The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

Chapter 1: We Work, and We Witness
Chapter 2: Humanitarian Assistance and Protection: Developing an Integrated Approach
Chapter 3: Broader Initiatives and Approaches to Strengthen the Protection Environment
Chapter 4: Preserving and Protecting Life, Health and Dignity through Humanitarian Action
Chapter 5: Practices Focusing on Specific Groups
Chapter 6: Remedial Activities and Action to Ensure Accountability