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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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Overview

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

Overview

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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Overview

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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Overview

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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Overview

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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Issue briefing

Now or Never: Climate change: time to get down to business

01/09/2009

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Corporate responsibility

Overview

Climate change affects poor people first and worst. It is a major obstacle to development and poverty alleviation, as well as a serious threat to business supply chains and markets in developing countries. Oxfam believes that companies can help to determine whether the world wins or loses the fight against climate changes. It cannot be […]

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Briefing paper

Turning the Tide: How best to protect workers employed by gangmasters, five years after Morecambe Bay

29/07/2009

2 documents

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

Overview

On 5 February 2004, 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in rising tides in Morecambe Bay because of the negligence of their gangmaster. This paper evaluates the current protection afforded to workers in the industries regulated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). It highlights that a significant number of unlicensed gangmasters continue to exist, and exploitation […]

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Briefing note

Waking the Devil: The impact of forced disarmament on civilians in the Kivus

17/07/2009

2 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

The military operations launched against the FDLR since early 2009 have been presented as a bid for the unity (Umoja Wetu) and peace (Kimia II) that have so long eluded eastern DRC. In that light they have received considerable international acclaim and support, particularly through the UN peacekeeping force, MONUC. Warnings of potentially devastating consequences […]

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Briefing paper

Empty Promises: What happened to ‘development’ in the WTO’s Doha Round?

16/07/2009

6 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The Doha Development Round was meant to rebalance decades of unfair rules in agriculture and address the needs of developing countries. Instead, the negotiations have betrayed this promise. The trade Round has become a market access negotiation, in which developing countries are expected to give disproportionately more and will receive little but stale promises of […]

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Briefing paper

Suffering the Science: Climate change, people, and poverty

06/07/2009

8 documents

61 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Climate change adaptation

Overview

Climate change is damaging people’s lives today. Even if world leaders agree the strictest possible curbs on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the prospects are very bleak for hundreds of millions of people, most of them among the world’s poorest. This paper puts the dramatic stories of some of those people alongside the latest science on […]

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