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Human rights based approach
A human rights-based approach (HRBA) incorporates international human rights standards into development work
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Illustration: Ditte Lander Ahlgren
A human rights-based approach (HRBA) to development fundamentally shifts the core mission of development from charity to the obligation to respect, protect, and fulfil rights. It does this by integrating human rights norms and principles into every area of development cooperation, including the process itself, and in every thematic area of work.
This helps to promote the sustainability of development work, empowering people themselves - especially the most marginalized - to participate in policy formulation and hold accountable those who have a duty to act.
The Institute facilitates courses in HRBA（https://www.humanrights.dk/learning-hub/content-topic/human-rights-based-approach） emphasizing the need for incorporating human rights in all aspects of the development work. And we design and execute customized processes to support individual development organisations in adopting and implementing a human rights-based approach to their work.
Results
Ensuring respect for human rights when financing development（https://www.humanrights.dk/result/ensuring-respect-human-rights-when-financing-development）
The Institute assists development finance institutions to respect human rights when investing in the world’s most challenging markets.
From migrants to community workers（https://www.humanrights.dk/result/migrants-community-workers）
The Institute has supported the setup of 15 community centres that strengthen the protection of Chinese migrant workers’ rights and job possibilities.
Police training contributes to stabilisation in terror-ridden Sahel region（https://www.humanrights.dk/result/police-training-contributes-stabilisation-terror-ridden-sahel-region）
In 2018 over 4,000 police officers received human rights training using tools developed by the Institute & Burkina Faso, Niger & Mali's police schools
View all results（https://www.humanrights.dk/results）
Tools
Read more（https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/climate-change-human-rights-analytical-framework）
Tool
Climate change and human rights analytical framework（https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/climate-change-human-rights-analytical-framework）
For National Human Rights Institutions, civil society organisations and governments who wish to analyse climate change related laws, policies and initiatives and document impacts on rights holders.
Read more（https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/sector-wide-impact-assessments-fisheries-aquaculture）
Tool
Sector wide impact assessments on fisheries and aquaculture（https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/sector-wide-impact-assessments-fisheries-aquaculture）
For states, businesses, local communities, workers and trade unions, civil society organisations and the media, as well as development actors working with human rights in fisheries and aquaculture.
Read more（https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/human-rights-guide-fisheries）
Tool
The human rights guide to fisheries（https://www.humanrights.dk/tools/human-rights-guide-fisheries）