Human Rights and Refugee Training Module,

Crises/Countries

IASC Documents

ICVA Documents

ICVA Meeting Reports

Issues

Accountability and Quality

Avian Flu

Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP)

DFID Benchmarking Initiative

Disaster Response and Preparedness

Emergency Directors Meetings

Global Humanitarian Platform (GHP)

Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD)

Humanitarian "Clusters"

Humanitarian Affairs General Documentation

Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) System

Humanitarian Country Teams

Humanitarian Financing

Humanitarian Space

Humanitarian-Military Interface

ICVA's Work on the Code of Conduct and Humanitarian Principles

Integrated Missions

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

International Disaster Response Laws (IDRL)

Migration

Military or Armed Escorts

Needs Assessment and the Humanitarian Dashboard

NGO - UN Partnerships

NGOs and Humanitarian Reform Project

OCHA's Global Humanitarian Response Review 2004-2005

Older People Affected by Disaster

Operational Guidance, Training, and Toolkits

A Community-Based Approach in UNHCR Operations

A Community-Based Approach in UNHCR Operations - Annexes

Action for the Rights of Children (ARC), A Rights Based Training and Capacity Building Initiative

Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA)

Background - World Vision Protection Standards and Indicators

Children, Not Soldiers: Guidelines for working with child soldiers and children associated with fighting forces, Isobel McConnan and Sarah Uppard, Save the Children-UK, 2001.

Common Country Assessment Guidelines (CCAs)

Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) Session Plan Module 2 - Session 1Humanitarian Principles and Human Rights, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Sub-Working Group on the CAP with OHCHR, 2001.

Draft IDP Protection Handbook

Family Tracing: A Good Practice Guide, Lucy Bonnerjea, Save the Children Development Manual 3, 1994.

Field Guidelines, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

GBV Guidelines Introduction and Implementation Planning Package

Guidelines and key documents of interest to the humanitarian community

Guidelines for Cash Transfer Programming

Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women. UNHCR, Geneva 1991

Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Human Rights and Refugee Training Module,

Humanitarian Assistance Training Inventory

Humanitarian Principles Training: A Child Rights Protection Approach to Complex Emergencies, UNICEF

Humanitarian Programme Management and Accountability Training

ICRC Ecogia Protection Seminars

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Training Modules on Internally Displaced Persons.

Investigating Women's Rights Violations in Armed Conflicts, Amnesty International and Rights and Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democracy), 2001.

Management Training for Humanitarian Personnel, Autumn 2009

Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Brookings Institution

Minimum Standards for Protection in Emergencies

Norwegian Refugee Council IDP Training Modules, Global IDP Project.

OHCHR Professional Training Series

Older People in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises: Guidelines for Best Practice

Operational Protection in Camps and Settlements

Protecting Persons Affected by Natural Disasters - IASC Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters

Questionnaire for feedback on draft UNHCR Manual on a Community-Based Approach to Operations

Sexual Violence Against Refugees: Guidelines on Prevention and Response.UNHCR, Geneva 1995.

Sphere Project Training Manuals

Synopsis of UNHCR's Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women

The Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action: Upcoming Training Opportunities October 2009

The Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, UN OCHA and the Brookings Institution

The Practicalities of Rights-Based Development, Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), June 2001.

The Refugee Experience: Psychosocial Training Module, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Unaccompanied Children in Emergencies: A Field Guide for their Protection and Care

Peacebuilding

Private Sector Engagement in Humanitarian Action

Protecting Rights Through Humanitarian Action

Protection

Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

Reach Out Refugee Protection Training Project

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Small Arms

Staff Security

The Fribourg Forum, 15-16 June 2000

The Future of Humanitarian Action

The SPHERE Project

UN Humanitarian Reform

UNICEF Consultation with NGOs in Humanitarian Action

World Humanitarian Day, 19 August

Other Websites of Interest

UNHCR-Related Documents

Protecting Rights

Reach Out

Global Humanitarian Platform

NGOs and Humanitarian Reform

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Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action
About this Section
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Training and Toolkits
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UNHCR 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

Part II: Specific Issues

Chapter 1: Assembly, Opinion and Expression, and Religion
Chapter 2: Children
Chapter 3: Detention
Chapter 4: Education
Chapter 5: Fair Hearing
Chapter 6: Family Life
Chapter 7: Freedom of Movement
Chapter 8: Racial Discrimination
Chapter 9: Refoulement
Chapter 10: Women
Chapter 11: Work

Length: 193 pages

UNHCR 1995-1997

Human Rights and Refugee Training Module

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