Publications

At the end of October 2020, an intergovernmental working group of the United Nations will meet for its sixth round of negotiations on a draft for a binding human rights agreement on transnational corporations and other enterprises. Compared to the preliminary…

Enforced disappearance of migrants and refugees has become a pressing human rights problem and must be taken more seriously by States than at present. This study analyses relevant obligations arising from the International Convention for the Protection of All…

In the Andean countries, mining has been an important factor in reducing poverty and inequality, but has also resulted in negative human rights impacts, socio-environmental conflicts and environmental pollution. The Ger­man Federal Ministry for Economic…

Intended as a contribution to the ongoing discussion, this position paper of the Monitoring Mechanism for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child seeks to focus attention on the special situation of children and the fulfillment of their right to health as…

This paper gives development practitioners an introduction to the human rights-based approach (HRBA) to development. It describes the principles and characteristics of an HRBA, and outlines how our work in German governmental development agencies can be…

Digitalization is gaining importance rapidly. However, neither companies nor states have yet developed a sufficient understanding of the data economy’s human rights impacts. The study suggests that addressing the corporate responsibility of technology…

The German Institute for Human Rights (GIHR) is the independent National Human Rights Institution of Germany. It is accredited according to the Paris Principles of the United Nations (A-status) and is specifically mandated to monitor the implementation of the…

The corona crisis has a specific human rights dimension: it calls for states to protect one of the core human rights for substantial percentages of humanity, and the responses to that call are having numerous impacts on the realisation and protection of human…

The latest developments since end of February, when thousands of people arrived at the Greek-Turkish border and tried to reach the EU, provoked a questioning of fundamental international refugee and human rights law and longstanding problems of the Common…