Triple Edge Resources

UN gender equality agency — publishes Progress of the World’s Women reports and gender data. Key source for the economic and social impacts on women in post-Soviet transition countries.

UN’s principal human rights office — publishes treaty body reports, special procedure mandates, and Universal Periodic Review documentation for all UN member states.

UN food assistance agency — publishes hunger and food insecurity data globally. Relevant to the Ukraine war food security and post-Soviet poverty threads.

UN environmental authority — publishes Global Environment Outlook and climate change assessments. Relevant to the Chernobyl environmental impact and FSU industrial collapse threads.

UN sexual and reproductive health agency — publishes State of World Population annual report. Relevant to the trafficking and women’s vulnerability threads.

UN cultural and education agency — publishes Global Education Monitoring Report and cultural heritage protection documents. Relevant to the Soviet cultural infrastructure collapse thread.

UN health agency — publishes health system performance data including the collapse of Soviet healthcare infrastructure during transition. Relevant to the Chernobyl social impact and FSU health crisis threads.

UN refugee agency — publishes Global Trends in Forced Displacement and country-level protection data. Relevant to the FSU diaspora displacement and trafficking vulnerability threads.

UN agency for children’s rights — publishes State of the World’s Children annual report, child trafficking data, and country-level child rights monitoring.

UN’s lead development agency — publishes the Human Development Report (including HDI), SDG progress tracking, and country-level development programming. Active in post-Soviet transition countries.

EU’s independent body providing evidence-based advice on fundamental rights — publishes surveys, reports and comparative data on discrimination, hate crime, Roma rights, and civil liberties across member states.

The EU’s social rights framework — 20 principles covering equal opportunities, fair working conditions and social protection. Sets the normative standard for EU social policy against which member state performance is measured.

The EU’s evolving anti-money laundering legislative framework — AMLD4 (2015) introduced beneficial ownership registers; AMLD5 (2018) extended to crypto and art; AMLD6 (2018) expanded criminal liability.

Landmark EU directive requiring large companies to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence across their value chains — imposes corporate liability for human rights violations by suppliers.

EU’s five-year strategic framework for human rights and democracy in external relations — sets objectives, actions and monitoring mechanisms across all EU external policy.

Russian education ministry — documents the dismantling and rebuilding of the Soviet education infrastructure during the transition period, including the closure of cultural facilities for children referenced in the Venice note.

US labour ministry — publishes the annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (180+ countries) and the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.

Easterly’s critique of Western development aid — argues top-down “planner” approaches fail and should be replaced by bottom-up “searcher” solutions; counter-argument to Sachs.

Sachs’s case for ending extreme poverty by 2025 — the intellectual framework behind the Millennium Development Goals and the SDG agenda.

JRC mapping of EU policies to the SDG framework — reference tool for identifying policy coherence and gaps across all 17 goals.

EU’s first voluntary review of SDG implementation — reports progress across all 17 goals and identifies systemic gaps in EU member state delivery.

UPR report on the United States — covers treaty reservations, capital punishment, racial justice, migrant rights and the gap between US human rights rhetoric and domestic practice.

OHCHR country-by-country human rights committee information — treaty body reporting and review records under the ICCPR.

The foundational European human rights instrument — establishes the rights enforceable before the European Court of Human Rights.