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Guidance
Designing and delivering people-centred justice and security

The Designing and Delivering People-Centred Justice and Security: A UNDP Programming Guide helps teams translate the people-centred approach into action.

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Research
Human Rights vs. Competitiveness: A False Dilemma

Data on the Financial Implications of Corporate Human Rights Performance: This study - authored by UNDP and supported by the World Benchmarking Alliance - challenges the long-held belief that strong human rights performance comes at a cost to business competitiveness.

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Policy Brief
The UNDP people-centred approach to justice and security

This people-centred approach aligns to the UNDP human development mandate and reflects the core principles that have long guided its work in rule of law, justice and security. It emphasises how justice and security systems can be more responsive to the needs of people and communities.

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Toolkit
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Programming: HRBA Toolkit

The UNDP Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) Toolkit is a transformative resource designed to integrate human rights principles and standards into sustainable development programming.

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Guidance
UNDP Digital Rights Dashboard Pilot Country Insights

The Digital Rights Dashboard (DRD), a new addition to UNDP's Digital Development Compass, provides an overview of countries' progress in embedding human rights within the digital space.

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Guidance
What is the Right to a Healthy Environment?

This Information Note, co-authored by UNDP, OHCHR, and UNEP, unpacks the elements and importance of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment and outlines how diverse stakeholders can play an active role in making the right a reality for all.

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Guidance
Environmental Justice: Securing Our Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment

The paper presents insights and key findings from an extensive consultation process that aimed at identifying entry points and suggestions for interventions in this area, as well as a three-pronged approach for UNDP’s environmental justice work.

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Report
Diverse Pathways to People-Centred Justice: Report of the Working Group on Customary and Informal Justice and SDG16+

The report pleads for increased engagement with Customary and Informal Justice actors. It reviews the characteristics of CIJ, discusses why they are integral to achieving justice for all, reframes the risks of engagement and non-engagement with CIJ and proposes ways to effectively engage.

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Issue brief
Women's Meaningful Participation in Transitional Justice: Advancing Gender Equality and Building Sustainable Peace

This report and accompanying policy brief is intended to trigger a UN ‘rethink’ about women’s participation in transitional justice at both the policy and programme levels.

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Guidance
E-Justice: Digital Transformation to Close The Justice Gap

This paper examines the opportunities and risks of e-justice from a development lens providing concrete parameters for responsible digitalization in the legal sector and illustrates the trends that have emerged from the digitalization of the justice sector in recent years.

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Guidance
UNDP Implementation Tool for the UN Human Rights Due Diligence Policy

This guidance document and the risk assessment form constitute together UNDP's Implementation Tool for the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy on United Nations support to non-United Nations Security Forces (HRDDP).

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Research Paper
A People-Centered Approach to Security

This contributing paper intends to start a wider dialogue within the UN and beyond about how to better operationalize people-centered security (PCS) in the field.

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