How the balance is struck between accountability for past human rights violations, structural changes that can contribute to a better human rights future, and achieving peace is examined in this article. The article describes the efforts of El Rescate, a small NGO, and how through the projects it developed and implemented facilitated measurable improvement in the human rights situation in El Salvador. By analyzing its efforts, this article hopes to contribute to an understanding of how change agents can develop unique and innovative tools during transitions toward peace that maximize the transformative potential to benefit the human rights situation.
This article examines tentative developments in the area of human rights
field operations, outlining the challenges which faced the recent UN peace
keeping/building experience in Angola, and analyzing the opportunities,
successes, and failures of the UN human rights mission to contribute
concretely to improving the human rights situations in Angola. The article
provides both a set of recommendations designed to overcome the present
limitations of human rights field operations and possible tools to improve
the present human rights situation. This improvement is not simply about
short term ad hoc visible actions, but, more importantly, how such field
operations can contribute to building the foundation for the development
of a human rights culture, both on the governmental and individual levels.
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