Fighting Child Labor through Social Inclusion and Financial Education
Language(s): Arabic
Published: N/A
Teaching for Peace
Language(s): Arabic
Published: N/A
Elections Toolkit
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2019
Basic Law Draft of Local Elections
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2017
Support Female Candidates
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2017
Finance and Budget Guide
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2017
Training Session on Municipal Administration and Project Management
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2016
HR and Job Description Guide
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2016
The Building of Human Rights Culture (History and the Most Important International Treaties)
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2015
FW: Website for safeguarding elections
Language(s):
Published: 2015
FW: (Forward) is an informal, web-based community of civic activists, technology junkies, academics, bloggers, journalists and citizens interested in learning about and sharing new approaches and tools for safeguarding elections. The site is available in English, Arabic and French at www.fwelections.com.
Administrative Corruption in Lebanon: Key Features and Ways Ahead
Language(s): English
Published: 2015
This report describes a 2013 administration corruption survey, outlines the status of bribery in Lebanon and describes a proposed strategy for addressing corruption in public administrations. Both English and Arabic are included.
Access to Information: Benefits for the Private Sector
Language(s): English
Published: 2015
The objective of this report is to contribute to the debate on the importance of access to information for the private sector. It highlights laws, efforts and challenges specific to Lebanon. Both English and Arabic are included.
Leadership Skills and Peacebuilding
Organization: Kuwaiti Human Rights SocietyLanguage(s): Arabic
Published: 2015
New Tactics for Human Rights: Background and Fundamentals
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
Guide to Monitoring Public Money
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
This manual provides an introduction to corruption, including a focus on combatting corruption and a broad overview of the manifestations of wasting public money. It also includes information on how to monitor and document incidents of wasting public money and the responsibility of official public bodies to protect public funds. The guide presents methods for reporting and following up on incidents where public money is being wasted, emphasizing the rights of the citizen.
Strengthening Women Parliamentarian's Social Media Skills
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
This training manual provides general information about the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter and includes instructions for creating accounts. It also provides an overview of tools and features for new users and highlights tips for public figures.
Strengthening Women Parliamentarian's Skills in Televised Appearances
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This manual focuses on the importance of television as an outreach tool and describes how to effectively participate in televised interviews. Practical instructions and tips are provided for three scenarios: participating in a talk show, appearing within a news report to discuss a particular event, and appearing to present a specific opinion on the subject of debate within a news program.
A Training Manual on Empowering Women With Rights to Inheritance
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This training manual contains detailed information about the concept of inheritance in Palestinian and Islamic law and the laws governing inheritance. It explains women’s shares in inheritance and property rights in religious and legal systems, along with problems women encounter in obtaining their inheritance. The manual offers practical steps for an advocacy campaign to raise women's awareness of legal procedures to advocate for their rights.
Financing Politics: The Middle East and North Africa
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This manual highlights the importance of political finance in the Middle East and North Africa, and provides a discussion of global and regional standards in the regulation of political finance. Country studies are provided for Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and Yemen.
The Arabic version of this manual will be available later.
Libya: Reporting for a Better Future
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2013
This handbook, in Arabic, is a practical guide for journalists reporting on elections in Libya. It emphasizes the importance of impartial reporting, fact-checking and reliable sourcing.
Tunisia: A Free Press Prepares for Elections
Language(s): French
Published: 2013
This handbook, in French, is a practical guide for journalists reporting on elections in Tunisia. It emphasizes the importance of impartial reporting, fact-checking and reliable sourcing.
Manual on the Establishment and Operation of a Law Clinic: Best Practices, Comparative Models, and Monitoring Mechanisms (Kuwait)
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This manual is provides instructions on the establishment and operation of law clinics in Kuwait. The manual is divided into seven parts, such as: defining the objectives; selecting the topics; overcoming obstacles; and establishing exchange programs. Comparative models and best practices from different law clinics around the world and used as examples.
Law Clinic Course Syllabus, Kuwait International Law School
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
The course is designed to provide law students with substantive legal knowledge, focusing on how to interview clients, identify victims of human right violations, draft a pleading, represent a client in a settlement conference, and work with people from diverse backgrounds. The course is divided into divided into 13 units, focusing on human rights, access to justice, the right to be heard, assisting domestic workers, legal ethics and more. It focuses on Kuwait.
C189 - Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189)
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This text from the 2011 Domestic Workers Convention focuses on promotion of decent work and rights for domestic workers. It was used in The Protection Project trainings, organized by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Language(s): English
Published: 2013
This resource from the United Nations outlines the state duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and access to remedy. It was used in The Protection Project trainings, organized by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Campaign Skills Handbook
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2013
This manual contains 11 modules for preparing a comprehensive, step-by-step program to plan and execute an election campaign. The manual offers guidance on building communication strategy, campaign planning and tools for research, mobilizing resources and targeting voters. It also details key steps for political party activists and leaders to develop successful messages and become powerful communicators and leaders.
The Global Landscape for Women
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2012
In English and Arabic, this presentation describes the global gender gap, using several countries as examples - Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It also focuses on women in the workforce and challenges to accessing employment. For more information, please see Freedom House's training guide – Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in the Workforce, Advancing Your Career and Becoming a Change Agent. This project was funded by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL).
Module 12: Field Trips
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the twelfth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It includes three fieldtrip sessions: visit to a family planning center, visit to hospitals and visit to police stations.
Module 9, Part IV: Women’s Human Right to Full Citizenship - The Human Rights of Physically Challenged Women
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is part of the ninth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. This file highlights women’s human right to full citizenship and the human rights of physically challenged women.
Module 7: Women’s Human Right to Health
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the seventh module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. The focus is on women’s human right to health and includes three sessions: the obligation to have numerous children; women’s right to access to health care; and freedom from charlatans.
Module 2, part III: Women’s Human Rights in the Family - Women and their Children
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the second module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It focuses on women and their children with four sessions: child custody and guardianship; filiation; transmitting nationality to children; and single mothers.
Module 6: Women’s Human Right to Education
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the sixth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. The focus is on women’s human right to education and includes two sessions: women’s right to education and the impact of illiteracy on women’s human rights.
Module 8: Women’s Human Rights at Work
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the eighth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It focuses on women’s human rights at work and includes three sessions: discrimination at work in the formal sector: hiring, salaries, hours, and family responsibilities; discrimination at work in the informal sector: the case of domestic workers; and the right to belong to a labor union.
Module 4: Women’s Human Rights to Property
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the fourth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. This section focuses on women’s rights to property and includes seven sessions: women’s unpaid work in the household; contribution to household costs during marriage; marital property upon divorce; financial support by children in old age; the right to have a bank account; women’s right to credit; and women’s inheritance rights.
Appendices
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource includes the seven appendices for the manual Making Human Rights Real, A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. This includes: Program Evaluation Form; International Conventions Ratified by Morocco; International Human Rights Calendar; Human Rights Education Bibliography; Internet Resources for Human Rights Education; Directory of Human Rights Organizations in Morocco; and The Arabic, Amazigh and French Glossary of Human Rights Terms.
Module 5: Women’s Human Right to Freedom from Violence
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the fifth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. The focus is on women’s right to freedom from violence and includes nine sessions: verbal violence; physical violence in the family; sexual assault; sexual harassment in the workplace; women as the target of terrorist violence; the impact of terrorism on women’s human rights; pimping women for profit; violence against sex workers; and trafficking in persons.
Module 11: Women’s Human Right to Freedom from Stereotyping
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the eleventh module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It highlights women’s human right to freedom from stereotyping with two sessions: images of women in advertising and school textbooks; and the role of the media in promoting responsibility for human rights violations.
Module 10: Women’s Right to Participate in Political Life
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the tenth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It focuses on women’s right to participate in political life with six sessions: making decisions without women; women and decision-making positions; obstacles to women’s political participation; the right to vote in elections; vote your conscience; and know your government.
Module 9, Part II: Women’s Human Right to Full Citizenship - The Impact of Corruption on Women’s Human Rights
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is part of the ninth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. This file reviews the Module9 in the program: Women’s human right to full citizenship and the impact of corruption on women’s human rights. The theme includes three sessions: corruption and gender; corruption in the judicial system; and corruption and elections.
Module 9, Part I: Women’s Human Right to Full Citizenship - Freedom of Movement
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is part of the ninth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It focuses on women’s human right to full citizenship and freedom of movement. The theme includes two sessions: women’s right to freedom of movement and the impact of male migration on women’s rights.
Module 9, Part III: Women’s human right to full citizenship - The Human Rights of Women Prisoners
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is part of the ninth module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. The file focuses on women’s human right to full citizenship and the human rights of women prisoners.
Cover Page: Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
Introduction: Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This file provides an introduction to the Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco manual. It includes the program summary and lists modifications from an earlier version of the manual.
A Practical Guide for Human Rights Program Facilitators
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource for facilitators is part of Making Human Rights Real: A Legal Literacy Program for Women in Morocco manual. It provides suggestions for facilitators holding women’s human rights sessions. It also focuses on characteristics of a good facilitator.
Module 2, part I: Women’s Human Rights in the Family - The Marriage Contract
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the second module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. This section focuses on women’s human rights in the family and the marriage contract. It includes seven sessions: the legal age for marriage; consent to marriage and the right to choose one’s husband; dowry, the marriage contract: the possibility of including clauses in favor of the woman; the marriage contract: how to negotiate clauses; polygamy; and the Urfi Marriage (traditional marriage without a written contract).
Module 2, part II: Women’s Human Rights in the Family - Divorce
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the second module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. This section focuses on divorce, the second theme in Module 2. The four sections include: introduction to the concept of divorce and the different types of divorce in Morocco; divorce by the husband: without cause (talaq); divorce by the wife: without cause (khula and tamleeq); and divorce by the wife: for cause (taqleeq).
Module 1: Introduction to the Concept of Human Rights and Oneself as a Subject of Rights
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2012
This resource is the first module of the manual Making Human Rights Real: A Human Rights Education Program for Women in Morocco. It focuses the concept of human rights and oneself as a subject of rights. It includes nine sessions: introduction to the concept of women’s human rights; introduction to the concept of liberty; introduction to the concept of dignity; introduction to the concept of equality; discrimination against women; introduction to gender analysis; introduction to the sources of law used in the program; protecting women’s human rights: individual responsibility; and collective mobilization for the promotion of women’s human rights.
The Citizen’s Guide to a Civilized State
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2011
This manual aims to raise awareness of Yemeni citizens about the definition of a civil state - its principles, components and guarantees. Additionally, it reviews the role of youth and civil society organizations in establishing a modern civil state.
Tunisian Election Law Handbook for Lawyers
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
The comprehensive "Tunisian Election Law Handbook for Lawyers" describes and explains the country’s legal provisions surrounding electoral conduct. The handbook provides advice on applying Tunisia’s new Election Law and presents Tunisian lawyers with guidance on substantive law and procedures from the Constituent Assembly. The handbook also highlights potential areas of dispute and legal strategies in assisting citizens on election legal issues.
Appendices to Law Practice Manual Book - Qatar
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2011
The appendices that accompany the Law Practice Manual Book include sample time slips, invoices, legal agreements and compensation plans.