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Human Rights Impact Assessment In Practice

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What is HRIA?

Human rights impact assessment (HRIA) measures the impact of policies, programmes, projects and interventions on human rights.

It can be used for actions that are specifically designed to have an impact on human rights, in which case it will be used to determine the way in which an action will have a maximum positive impact.

It can also be used  for activities and interventions that are not specifically designed to have an impact on human rights but could impact on them indirectly. This assists in systematically determining whether policies, programmes and activities take human rights sufficiently into account.

See the HRIA Guide for more.


The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre provides centralised access to a broad range of information and expertise on human rights impact assessment (HRIA). Users with varying interests and expertise can find relevant documents, discuss new developments and contribute to the growing HRIA knowledge base.

Latest News

18.06.2008

Enhancing the Rights Perspective in Development Cooperation

Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation (SADEV)'s latest publication, SADEV report 2008:2 'Integrating the Rights Perspective in Programming – Lessons learnt from Swedish-Kenyan development cooperation' is now available.

02.06.2008

Successful HeRWAI lobby with regards to new Dutch health bill

Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Aim for human rights, Doctors of the World, Dutch League for Human Rights (LVRM), IFHHRO and Amsterdam Solidarity Committee Refugees (ASKV) are satisfied that a proposal for...

28.05.2008

Human Rights Impact Resource Centre has been renewed

The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre has renewed its online knowledge centre. As from today, human rights practitioners from all over the world are able to join in for discussions, collaborative work and interaction through...