Human Rights Benchmarks

By establishing clear human rights objectives based on the accountability of governments - and these include provincial, regional, district and local governments - we automatically establish measures of success.

The process of assessment of whether progress has been achieved - laws revised, mechanisms of redress set in place, budget lines re-allocated - must, of course, include the participation of the rights claimants and this process is itself a benchmark of effectiveness.

Here is an effort by an academic to suggest some tentative human rights benchmarks for development assistance.