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It is with deep regret that we have to announce that all Equalinrights activities ceased on the 31st of January 2012. Due to the lack of financial resources to cover organisational costs, the Board and the Director took the extremely difficult decision to discontinue Equalinrights’ operations and to temporarily suspend its mission. After 6 years, Equalinrights closed its doors on the 15th of February 2012.
The Equalinrights website and domain will be maintained for a period of one year until 2013 and the principal contact, and custodian of Equalinrights files, will be the Equalinrights Treasurer, Mr. W.J.M. Verhallen.
Please direct all enquires to Ms C. Keizer until the 15th of February 2012 and thereafter to Mr. W.J.M. Verhallen.
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Equalinrights publishes two papers on budgeting human rights:
Frontloading Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Building Budgets and Realising Rights
by V. Steenbergen
A Guide to Costing Human Rights
by V. Steenbergen
Book Release by EiR Chair:
Political Economy of Human Rights: Rights, Realities and Realization
By Bas de Gaay Fortman.
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Equalinrights has ceased operating as of 15 February 2012
Welcome to Equalinrights!
Established in 2007, Equalinrights aims to advance understanding and use of human rights-based strategies in the global struggle against poverty, gender inequality, marginalization and exclusion. We strive to bridge the gap between the development and human rights fields and provide support to the integration of bottom-up approaches in human rights-based development (HRBD) practice. Working with development and human rights practitioners worldwide to exchange, create and promote strategies, methodologies and tools attuned to specific contexts, we promote learning by doing, learning from doing and learning to do.
To this end, Equalinrights deploys three main operational strategies:
- Strengthening human rights-based development practice
- Innovating aspects of human rights-based development practice
- Linking and building strategic alliances with Civil Society Organisations.
Equalinrights operates as a support structure and knowledge platform working in cooperation with organisations and partners on a shared mission on a particular theme, disseminating lessons from practice and building capacity to implement human rights-based development practice. In this context, we provide:
- Tailor-made programmes and trainings for integrating human rights-based development into on-going development practice within organisations.
- Development of innovative non-legal strategies and tools for human rights-based development. A case in point is the Budgeting Human Rights project aimed at developing specific tools, such as, a costing guide which assists Civil Society Organisations in calculating the implementation costs of a human rights law or policy.
- Documentation, collation and dissemination of good human rights-based development practice: case studies, critical stories of change, methodologies, advocacy tools, etc.
- A web-based resource centre, Equalonline, making published materials on human-rights based development and related topics available online.
- Face-to-face and interactive online platforms for practitioners to connect and share with others their skills, knowledge and experience about bottom-up human rights-based development.
