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  1. Library Resource
    Land Human Rights Standards and Applications
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2015
    Global

    This basic legal reference publication has been prepared as part of the OHCHR output on land and human rights. It aims to provide a concise and user-friendly guide on key international legal standards, including international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law, to those working on land issues so as to make them aware that such standards may be applicable to their work

  2. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2015
    Global

    These principles provide guidance on ways to align business objectives with the safeguard of human rights. The principles aim to integrate the management of human rights risks into contract negotiations on investment projects between host State entities and foreign business investors, building on the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

  3. Library Resource
    Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    Reports & Research
    October, 2011
    Global

    More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, sets out a shared strategy by UN agencies to rise to the challenge of addressing the special needs of these vital zones.


  4. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    March, 2017
    Global

    The present publication provides national statistical agencies and policy makers with guidance on collecting, processing, analysing and disseminating individual-level data on asset ownership and control for the production of gender statistics. Although agricultural surveys and administrative data sources are briefly addressed, the focus of the guidelines is on household surveys for two key reasons.

  5. Library Resource
    The New Urban Agenda cover image
    Manuals & Guidelines
    October, 2016
    Global

    The New Urban Agenda represents a shared vision for a better and more sustainable future – one in which all people have equal rights and access to the benefits and opportunities that cities can offer, and in which the international community reconsiders the urban systems and physical form of our urban spaces to achieve this.


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