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Briefing paper

How States can deliver on the AU Declaration for an African Women’s Decade 2010-2020

01/11/2009

2 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Policy briefing for African delegations attending the AU Ministerial Conference of Gender Ministers and the 8th African Regional Conference on Women to review 15 years of the Beijing Platform of Action, The Gambia, November 2009. This policy briefing argues that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Africa, the AU Women’s […]

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Briefing paper

Band Aids and Beyond: Tackling disasters in Ethiopia 25 years after the famine

22/10/2009

3 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In 1984, a massive humanitarian operation was launched in response to famine in Ethiopia. Thousands of lives were saved. Twenty-five years on, as droughts become dangerously common, we have to look beyond the traditional ‘band-aid’ responses. For Ethiopians it is more sustainable and dignified to identify and tackle the risk of disaster rather than simply […]

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Trading Away Access to Medicines: How the European Union’s trade agenda has taken a wrong turn

20/10/2009

7 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Thai

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Access to medicines poses a critical challenge in developing countries, largely because prices are high, and new or adapted medicines and vaccine to address diseases of the developing world are lacking. ore than 5 million people in low and middle income countries still lack access to the anti-retroviral medicines needed to treat HIV and AIDS. […]

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Briefing note

Dying for Action: Decision time for an urgent, effective Arms Trade Treaty

07/10/2009

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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On 6 December 2006, the UN General Assembly first voted to work ‘towards an Arms Trade Treaty’ to protect civilians worldwide from irresponsible arms transfers. For almost three years, governments have discussed what the treaty might look like. And in that time almost 2.1 million men, women, and children have died as a result of […]

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Briefing paper

Missing Pieces? Assessing the impact of humanitarian reform in Pakistan

01/10/2009

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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The displacement of more than three million people in Pakistan has triggered one of the biggest emergency responses of the year. Four years after the launch of the UN-led humanitarian reform process, national and international response capacities appear to have improved on some fronts – but on the whole, humanitarian assistance still falls far short […]

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Briefing paper

Beyond Aid: Ensuring adaptation to climate change works for the poor

16/09/2009

6 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate-related shocks are affecting the lives of millions of poor people with increasing frequency and severity. Without urgent action, recent development progress will stall – then go into reverse. The international community must make a new commitment to fund adaptation to climate change. Funds must be additional to the promise to deliver 0.7 per cent […]

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Briefing paper

Your Money or Your Life: Will leaders act now to save lives and make healthcare free in poor countries?

14/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Health systems

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User fees for health care are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives. People who can’t pay are often imprisoned in hospitals until their families can clear their bills. For those who do pay, over 100 million are […]

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Briefing note

Urban Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: The urgent need for co-ordinated action to reduce urban poverty

10/09/2009

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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The scale of urban poverty in Kenya is something that policymakers can no longer afford to ignore. Between a third and half of the country’s urban population live in poverty. The country is urbanising at such a speed that it is projected to be 50 per cent urban by 2020, and half of all Kenya’s […]

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Briefing paper

Sexual Violence in Colombia: Instrument of war

09/09/2009

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Sexual violence has been employed as a weapon of war by all of the armed groups involved in the half-century-long Colombian conflict. State military forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla groups have used sexual violence with the goal of terrorizing communities, using women as instruments to achieve their military objectives. But this type of violence also is […]

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Briefing paper

Money for Nothing: Three ways the G20 could deliver up to $280 billion for poor countries

04/09/2009

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

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This weekend the finance ministers of the G20 nations will meet in London. Whilst the rich world feels that the worst of the economic crisis may be behind it, the poorest countries are being hit hardest, with those living on the margins of the global economy paying for the bankers’ folly with their lives.

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