This manual provides practical guidance principally for the conduct of human rights monitoring in United Nations field operations, but it may also be useful to other human rights monitors. It is mainly based on the experience developed by the United Nations in recent years, through the work of various human rights field operations. It sets forth applicable international human rights and humanitarian law; approaches to identifying human rights violations, information-gathering, interviewing, visits to persons in detention, visits to displaced persons in camps, monitoring the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, trial observation, election observation, monitoring demonstrations, monitoring economic rights, preparation of reports, interventions with local authorities and another follow-up; the history of UN monitoring standards, etc. In addition, the manual provides suggestions for norms applicable to the work of human rights officers in file operations and how they can handle the challenges of stress and security they will encounter.
Freedom from discrimination, Freedom from torture, Freedom of assembly and association, Freedom of movement, Freedom of opinion and expression, Right to asylum, Right to culture, Right to fair trial, Right to housing, Right to life, Right to own property, Anti-racism, Conflict environments, Human rights-based approach, International humanitarian law, Monitoring & measuring human rights, Post-conflict environments, Torture
