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Article

9 Apr 2013

Author:
Emily Greenspan, extractive industries policy and advocacy advisor with Oxfam America

Social conflict, extractive industries, national human rights institutions and most importantly…communities

The new Oxfam research launched in Washington, DC today presents a framework for evaluating NHRIs’ impact on promoting and protecting human rights in the context of the extractive industries, and how this framework can be applied in individual country contexts. The research identifies five categories of determinants for NHRI effectiveness: independence, power, promotion, empowerment, and remediation...The research includes a case study on Ghana’s NHRI, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).