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  • In 2011, Equal in Rights published “A Guide to Costing Human Rights” by Victor Steenbergen. This paper provides an overview of all the central concepts and definitions relevant for costing human rights policy.
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  • In 2011, Equal in Rights published “ Frontloading Human Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Building Budget and Realising rights” by Victor Steenbergen. This paper defines all the key concepts and provides an understanding of their relevance for Frontloading Human Rights.
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  • The International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP), in collaboration with the International Budget Partnership (IBP), implemented a ten-day West African Regional Learning Program on Human Rights Budget Work in Monrovia, Liberia from July 4th to July 13th, 2011.
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  • The Center for Women’s Global Leadership published its report on“Maximum Available Resources and Human Rights” in June 2011. This report examines a number of ways that governments can access financial resources in order to fulfill their obligation to use “maximum available resources” to realize ESC rights.
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  • “ No Protection for Children in the Budget 2011-2012” provides an analysis from a child rights’ perspective of the allocations for children (Budget for Children—BfC) in the 2011-12 Indian Union budget. 
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  • In December 2010, The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights in an article, "Austerity Budgets Will Cause Further Child Poverty", recently said that political priorities and budget allocations are the principal reasons for the large differences in child poverty rates among European countries, and between those countries in similar economic situations. 
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  • In mid-2009 the International Budget Partnership (IBP) released “It’s Our Money. Where’s It Gone?”, a documentary film on the work of one of its partners, MUHURI (Muslims for Human Rights).  MUHURI involves communities directly in monitoring expenditure of the government’s Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Mombasa, Kenya.“
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  • In early 2010 IHRIP and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) produced “Reading the books: Government budgets and the right to education” that looks at elements of the right to education and where these might be found in a government’s budget; a government’s human rights obligations and questions these raise about a government’s budget; a process for using a rights framework to analyze a government’s education budget; and a short discussion of costing related to the right to education.
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Food is essential for human survival, and thus the right to food is perhaps the most critical of the rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). right2foodThe right is guaranteed by article 25 of the UDHR, and article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has issued a General Comment (GC 12) on the right to food, that helps detail the elements of this guarantee.

The most common direct connections between government budgets and the right to food are government spending on agriculture (which enables people to grow their own food), and on food subsidy programs of various sorts (e.g., school lunch programs). Since, however, the right to food is related to so many other rights (e.g., the right to work or the right to health), there are potentially many relationships between the right to food and government budgets—and many places to look in a government’s budget for data related to the right.

A key resource for budget work on issues affecting the right to food is the FAO’s Budget Work to Advance the Right to Food: "Many a slip...".  (See Resources)