A human rights-based approach to social impact assessment

New Directions in Social Impact Assessment: Conceptual and Methodological Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 355-368

  MacNaughton, Gillian ^a   Hunt, Paul ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878496169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. Bakker, S., Van Den Berg, M., Düzenli, D. and Radstaake, M. (2009), 'Human rights impact assessment in practice: the case of the health rights of women assessment instrument (HeRWAI)', Journal of Human Rights Practice, 1 (1), 1-23.
2. de Beco, G. (2009), 'Human rights impact assessments', Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 27 (2), 139-66.
3. Gay, R. (2008), 'Mainstreaming wellbeing: an impact assessment for the right to health', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 13 (2), 33-63.
4. Gostin, L. and Mann, J.M. (1994), 'Towards the development of a human rights impact assessment for the formulation and evaluation of public health policies', Health and Human Rights, 1 (1), 58-80.
5. Hunt, P. and MacNaughton, G. (2006), Impact Assessment, Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study using the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Health and Human Rights Working Paper Series No. 6, Geneva: World Health Organization and UNESCO.
6. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (1966), G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 52, UN Doc. A/6316 (1966), 999 UNTS 171, entered into force 23 March 1976.
7. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (1966), G.A. res. 2200A (XXI), 21 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 16) at 49, UN Doc. A/6316 (1966), 993 UNTS 3, entered into force 3 January 1976.
8. International Finance Corporation (IFC), International Business Leaders Forum in cooperation with The Global Compact (2010), Guide to Human Rights Impact Assessment and Management, available at http://www.guidetohriam.org (accessed 6 May 2011).
9. MacNaughton, G. and Hunt, P. (2009), 'Health impact assessment: the contribution of the right to the highest attainable standard of health', Public Health, 123 (4), 302-5.
10. NORAD (2001), Handbook in Human Rights Assessment: State Obligations, Awareness and Empowerment, Oslo: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
11. Rights & Democracy (2007), Human Rights Impact Assessment for Foreign Investment Projects: Learning from Community Experiences in the Philippines, Tibet, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Argentina, and Peru, Montreal, Canada: International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development.
12. Ruggie, J. (2007), Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises: Human Rights Impact Assessments - Resolving Key Methodological Questions, UN Doc. A/HRC/4/74.
13. UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) (1990), General Comment No. 3, The Nature of the States Parties' Obligations, UN Doc. E/1991/23, annex III at 86.
14. UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) (1997), Concluding Observations: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UN Doc. E/C.12/1/Add.19.
15. UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) (2000), General Comment No. 14, The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, UN Doc. E/C.12/2000/4.
16. UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (2003), General Comment No. 5, General Measures of Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UN Doc. CRC/GC/2003/5.
17. UN General Assembly, Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) (1948), G.A. res. 217A (III), UN Doc. A/810 at 71.
18. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) (2009), Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Doc. E/2009/90.
19. Vanclay, F. (2003), 'International principles for social impact assessment', Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 21 (1), 5-11.