Human Rights-Based Change

Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso works as a researcher at the Åbo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights. Her research areas include EU’s asylum and immigration legislation and policies; human rights-based approach to development; accountability; extraterritorial human rights obligations; and children’s rights.Hans-Otto Sano is acting Research Director, the Danish Institute for Human Rights. He has worked for three years at the Nordic Trust Fund, The World Bank, as Senior Program Officer. Dr. Sano is currently involved in research projects on Poverty and Human Rights-Based Approaches and in drafting a report on The Economy of Human Rights. His recent publications span themes on human rights indicators, on the drivers of human rights change, on the methods of assessing the impact of social and economic rights, and on social accountability and human rights.

• Introduction 1. Failures and Successes of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Towards a Change Perspective 2. Participatory Approaches to Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication: Tentative Lessons from South African Evictions Law 3. Modernisation of Maternity Care in Malawi 4. Education in Pursuit of the Development Dream? Effects of Schooling on Indigenous Development and Rights in Bolivia 5. Mainstreaming Human Rights in Development Programmes and Projects: Experience from the Work of a United Nations Agency 6. Evidence in Demand: An Overview of Evidence and Methods in Assessing Impact of Economic and Social Rights