Call for Papers are invited on the Third Annual Meeting of the International Network on Quantitative Methods for Human Rights and Development (Metrics for Human Rights and Development) to be held in on the subject “New Horizons in Economic and Social Rights Monitoring” in Madrid on 22 and 23rd March 2012. This event will be hosted by Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) along with the International Network on Quantitative Methods for Human Rights and Development.
This meeting will serve as the third annual meeting of the International Network on Quantitative Methods for Human Rights and Development Metrics for Human Rights. The meeting will emphasize on current challenges in monitoring economic and social rights fulfillment.
Call for papers and presentations which emphasize on either the special theme of this year’s meeting or the general themes of the Network. A growing body of innovative methods has developed to assess socio-economic and development policies through the lens of human rights principles as the duty to use ‘maximum available resources’ to progressively realize economic and social rights.
Special focus themes
We invite papers and presentations on themes related to the special focus, including:
- Lessons learnt from practical application of methods for monitoring the duty to fulfil ESC rights in different contexts
- The experience of domestic courts, national human rights institutions, international human rights bodies and civil society organizations in this regard
- Trends in the use of ESC rights indicators, indices and benchmarks to assess progressive realization
- The use of rights-based budget and tax analysis to monitor ¨maximum available resources¨, including in the context of fiscal austerity measures
General Themes
We are also open to presentations on a range of other topics relating to methods for monitoring human rights:
- Methods for monitoring and operationalizing specific principles such as progressive realization or non-discrimination and civil and political rights in development
- Theoretical or critical perspectives on quantitative methods
- The use of indicators and other measurement tools and frameworks
- Rights-based budget and tax analysis
- Quantitative trends, new data sets, data collection and coding
The Network aims to create synergies amongst practitioners as well as scholars for the use of human rights assessment methods as monitoring, advocacy and research tools for policy change. This serves as a space for sharing ideas and work, a forum for debating methodological issues and a place for identifying operational synergies as well as research opportunities.
Deadline: 1 February 2012
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