PHM-Exch> New : handbooks on The Right to Health and The Right to Food

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: <W.deRegt at amnesty.nl>


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Amnesty International (Netherlands) has recently published two new
handbooks in our Haki Zetu series on ESC rights in practice:

   - The Right to Health, and
   - The Right to Food.

These two handbooks complement the other handbooks in this series, and
should be used in conjunction with the Haki Zetu Main Book. The other
available handbooks cover the right to housing, the right to water and
sanitation, and the right to education. New handbooks on the right to work
and livelihoods, land and human rights, and monitoring government budgets,
are being developed.

The publications can be accessed at the following web page: *
http://www.amnesty.nl/haki-zetu-esc-rights-in-practice-1*<http://www.amnesty.nl/haki-zetu-esc-rights-in-practice-1>

The Haki Zetu series has been developed with and is meant for civil society
organisations and activists working with local communities particularly in
Africa. The booklets contain sections on understanding the situation and
the right itself (different aspects of the right to health resp. education,
how it is enshrined in treaties and laws), how you should prepare yourself
by studying international and national laws and institutional frameworks,
and a major section on various actions to realise the right, such as
awareness-raising, monitoring, dialogue and advocacy actions. The booklets
contain a range of checklists and other tools to use a starting point for
context-specific actions to work on these rights. They also contain
appendices with references to international laws and standards, names and
resources of relevant NGOs.

You are free to download and share these resources with your networks.
AINL/SPA can be contacted to get printed copies of these publications. They
are free for African human rights and civil society organisations, or
organisations working with them. In this case, please send a substantiated
request to the below e-mail address.

*PS: We are currently also evaluating the use of our first series of Haki
Zetu handbooks, in order to develop a programme to offer training and other
activities to promote working on ESC rights in local communities in Africa.
An online questionnaire has been distributed to all recipients of the
earlier handbooks. If you have used or consulted the earlier handbooks,
please let us know, so that we can include you in the
evaluation/questionnaire.*

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Wim de Regt
Special Programme on Africa (SPA)
Amnesty International (Netherlands)
w.deregt at amnesty.nl
www.amnesty.nl/spa
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