1.10 Safeguarding principles: what is a human rights-based approach?
Every human being has economic, social, and cultural rights. These have been agreed and written down by the United Nations in a series of declarations and conventions.
As well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – which applies to everyone – there are some specific rights that apply to groups of people who need greater protections, such as children, people with disability, and women and girls.
A human rights-based approach is about putting all these rights at the heart of the way your organisation works. Part of this is about stakeholder engagement – people have a right to have a say in decisions that affect them – but it is also about thinking about the impact of all your work on people, and doing everything you can to make sure human rights are respected.
1.9 Stakeholder engagement
