[hr-education] Dignity Counts: A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights

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DIGNITY COUNTS
A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights
Now available

"Dignity Counts: A guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights"
is now available.  Dignity Counts, a 94-page publication, uses a real-life
case study to explore how budget analysis can be used to assess a
government's compliance with its human rights obligations and to arrive at
specific, concrete recommendations related to the government's budgeting
and expenditures that, if implemented, would improve the human rights
situation.

Dignity Counts, produced by Fundar-Centro de Análisis e Investigación, the
International Budget Project (IBP) and the International Human Rights
Internship Program (IHRIP), focuses on the right to health in Mexico, but
the analysis used is applicable to other human rights, such as education
and housing, and to other national contexts.  The publication describes
the case study (which focuses on health care services available to the
informally employed and unemployed in Mexico), and includes a section on
human rights, another on budget analysis, a discussion of the analytical
process used to relate human rights and budget analysis to a specific
situation, a detailed discussion of how this thinking process is applied
to the case study, and a section on using budget analysis for human rights
advocacy.

Dignity Counts will also be available soon in Spanish.

For copies of Dignity Counts (English), contact the International Human
Rights Internship Program (IHRIP) at <ihripescr@iie.org>.  The cost of
Dignity Counts is US$15 plus postage and handling.  Copies will be made
available free of charge to NGOs that intend to use the guide in their
advocacy work.

If you are interested in the Spanish version of Dignity Counts, please
contact Fundar at <fundar@fundar.org.mx>.


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