Apart from providing assistance to refugees in countries of asylum and dealing with major refugee emergencies, one of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ main responsibilities is to provide long-term solutions for their plight.
Regency Foundation Networx, in association with UNCHR has produced Human Rights - the new consensus which contains a wide range of contemporary material on human rights, democracy, development and peace. The book, which incorporates the full texts of 14 declarations and international human rights standards and brings together the positions of both governments and grass roots activists, has been described as one of the most useful tools available to human rights workers, particularly those in the developing world.
Reviews of this publication
I will be using 'Human Rights - The New Consensus' in my class on "Current Issues of Controversy in the Human Rights Field"
Edy Kaufman - Center For International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)
... contains material of the utmost value and will soon become a classic on the Vienna Conference. The inclusion of publicity is also a very interesting development! Congratulations on the achievement.
Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International (HURIDOCS)
Human Rights - The New Consensus is an outstanding resource which brings to the reader a forceful integrated human rights perspective for the 21st Century.
Shulamith Koenig, Executive Director, the Decade of Human Rights Education
The book will form an important research tool when speaking on human rights issues in Parliament and at public meetings.
Elisabeth Kirkby MLC, State Parliamentary Leader, New South Wales
Human Rights - The New Consensus is a lasting marker in the struggle for human rights. It is one of the most useful tools ever to become available to human rights workers, especially those on the front line in the Third World.
Pierrs Sané, Secretary General, Amnesty International
The wide range of topics covered in the articles in Human Rights - The New Consensus will be of great value to us.
Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom |
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Thank you so much for the fantastic donation of £25,000 towards the UNHCR - Girl Guides Peace Pack project. The contribution of Regency Foundation Networx will enable us to ship tens of thousands of packs of school supplies to refugee children, who would otherwise have to go without a proper education. Human Rights - The New Consensus is really a smash hit. Everyone who sees it is thrilled that we have finally made such a useful tool... and they demand a copy.
Sylvana Foa, Spokeswoman for the High Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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