HUMAN RIGHTS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SERIES No. 7

Training Manual on

Human Rights Monitoring

UNITED NATIONS 
New York and Geneva, 2001

Part One INTRODUCTION TO THE TRAINING MANUAL 
Chapter I: Introduction
Part Two LOCAL CONTEXT AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
Chapter II: The Local Context
Chapter III: Applicable International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: The Framework
Chapter IV: Overview of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Standards
Part Three THE MONITORING FUNCTION
Chapter V: Basic Principles of Monitoring
Chapter VI: Identification and Prioritization of Efforts Regarding Human Rights Violations
Chapter VII: Information Gathering
Chapter VIII: Interviewing
Chapter IX: Visits to Persons in Detention
Chapter X: MONITORING AND PROTECTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF REFUGEES AND/OR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS LIVING IN CAMPS
Chapter XI: Monitoring and Protecting the Human Rights of Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons
Chapter XII: Children's Rights
Chapter XIII: Trial Observation and Monitoring the Administration of Justice
Chapter XIV: Election Observation
Chapter XV: Monitoring Demonstrations and Public Meetings
Chapter XVI: Monitoring During Periods of Armed Conflict
Chapter XVII: Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Chapter XVIII: Background of United Nations Monitoring Standards
Part Four: Following-Up and Reporting
Chapter XIX: Following-Up and Seeking Corrective Action
Chapter XX: Human Rights Reporting
Chapter XXI: Conciliation and Mediation in the Field 
Part Five: The Human Rights Officer
Chapter XXII: Norms Applicable to UN Human Rights Officers and Other Staff
Chapter XXIII: Stress, Vicarious Trauma and Burn-Out
Chapter XXIV: Security
by: OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
http://www.unhchr.ch/