PPR Project - Resources

"Participation and active involvement in the determination of one's own destiny is the essence of human dignity"

Mary Robinson

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North Belfast

Participation and the Practice of Rights Project
2nd Floor, 133 Royal Avenue
Belfast
BT1 1FG
Telephone: 0 (044) 2890 313315
Fax: 0 (044) 2890 245847
Email: info@pprproject.org

Charity Number XR97892

PPR Resources and Publications

Right To Health

Making and Measuring Change (Nov 2006)
Transcript of "Rights in Action: Changing Mental Health Services" (Nov 2007)
"Rights in Action: Changing Mental Health Services" - Findings of the International Panel (Feb 2008)
First Progress Report from the PIPS/Greater Shankill Bereaved Families Rights Group (Nov 2008)
Hearing Patients' Voices, Improving Their Services: Factsheet for New Complaints Procedure (March 2009)
"Participation & Mental Health" - A pamphlet to monitor your engagement with government (May 2009)
Second Progress Report from the PIPS/Greater Shankill Bereaved Families Rights Group (Aug 2009)
The Story of the 'Card Before You Leave' Campaign

Videos from "Rights in Action: Changing Mental Health Services":

Part 1. Part 2.

Video from "From Pillar to Post: Linking Meaningful Participation to Improved Service Delivery"

Right to Housing

Transcript of the First Housing Hearing (June 2007)
First Housing Hearing - Findings of the International Panel (Sept 2007)
Fourth Progress Report from the Seven Towers Monitoring Group (Jan 2009)

Videos from the First Evidence Hearing on the Right to Adequate Housing:

Part 1. Part 2.

Video from the Second Evidence Hearing:

"Residents Speak".

Right To Play

Videos from "When Kids Decide: Realising the Right to Play on the Lower Shankill":

Introduction to the group. Indicators, Part 1. Indicators, Part 2.

To see NvTv's coverage of the event, "The Right to Play", click here.

Videos from the group's initial work on human rights issues in the Lower Shankill, "The Rise of the Lower Shankill":

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

Urban Regeneration and the Right to Participation

Videos from the Residents' Jury on the Regeneration of Crumlin Road Gaol & Girdwood Barracks:

Part 1. Part 2.

Two minute Advert for the Jury's report "Girdwood Gamble":
Here.

Inequality & Deprivation Statistics

Long Term Unemployment Statistics - North Belfast & Shankill Wards

Other Resources

PPR Briefing to DSD Committee on NIHE Social Housing Development Programme Strategic Guidelines

Policy Developments

UN Submissions

Submission from PPR to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (April 2009)
Visit the blog of four residents who attended the UN Committee's Examination of the United Kingdom here.

E-Bulletins

Mary Robinson Visits PPR.

Full Transcript of Reception for Mary Robinson with PPR (May 2008)
Transcript of Mary Robinson's Presentation at the Reception (May 2008)