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UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

01/04/2003

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13 pages long

Languages: English

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This submission provides evidence from the Oxfam UK Poverty Programme (UKPP) and some of its partners working on poverty related issues; it illustrates Oxfam’s assertion that, while the UK Government is clearly committed to the relief of poverty and to finding solutions to social exclusion, (as indicated by its social policies and successive redistributive Budgets), […]

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Briefing paper

Where is the Impact? There should be no more delay in delivering poverty and social impact analysis for World Bank and IMFsupported policy reforms in developing countries

01/04/2003

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15 pages long

Languages: English

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The World Bank and IMF continue to drive forward policy reforms in developing countries with almost no prior analysis of the likely impact on poverty. Despite repeated commitments to ensure Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is carried out on all key reforms, very little progress has been made. The Spring Meetings are a perfect […]

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A Fair Deal for Albanian Farmers

01/03/2003

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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Since the early 1990s, Albania has carried out a series of institutional, legal, economic and structural reforms to transform the once centrally planned economy into a market economy. Although many people are better off now than they were under communism, the transition to a market economy has been an uneven and paniful process.

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Briefing paper

Iraq: Humanitarian-Military relations

01/03/2003

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Humanitarian aid is most effectively delivered by civilian humanitarian agencies under UN leadership. Military involvement can compromise the effective delivery of aid and lead to unintended consequences, potentially threatening the security of civilian aid workers.

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Briefing paper

Europe and the Coffee Crisis: A plan for action

06/02/2003

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21 pages long

Languages: English

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The recent collapse of world coffee prices was a disaster, for more than 25 million poor families. The crisis is now so deep that it is contributing to widespread hunger. The International Coffee Organisation (ICO) is addressing the crisis with plans for a Quality Improvement Programme and proposals to help hard-hit coffee farmers to find […]

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Briefing paper

Regulating Weapons Deals: The case for European controls on arms brokers

01/02/2003

2 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, French

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In one area, there is too little regulation in the European Union. The EU regulates everything from beaches to bananas, but not arms brokers. This is despite the fact that Europe is home to many of the world’s arms brokers responsible for arranging deliveries of weapons into countries in conflict and or into the hands […]

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Briefing paper

Protecting Iraq’s Civilians

06/01/2003

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14 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The Iraqi people are already in a highly vulnerable situation. With Iraq’s basic infrastructures eroded by decades of war, national mismanagement and twelve years of sanctions, another war in Iraq will have devastating humanitarian consequences for the civilian population. For that reason, Oxfam remains convinced that military action is unjustifiable. One vital way to protect […]

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Briefing paper

Education for all in Niger: Rich countries continue to neglect Africa’s children

01/01/2003

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16 pages long

Languages: English

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On 25 March senior aid officials will meet in Paris to take decisions that will dramatically affect the lives of millions of children around the world in countries like Niger. The government of Niger is committed to tackling the education crisis in a country where 1.3 million children have never been to school. But rich […]

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Briefing paper

Make Trade Fair in the Americas: Agriculture, Investment and Intellectual Property: Three reasons to say no to the FTAA

01/01/2003

3 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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While poverty, inequality and the concentration of wealth persist in Latin America and the Caribbean, trade and investment agreements are being promoted that would seriously limit the possibilities of development and poverty eradication in the countries of the region. The Free Trade Area of the Americas is an agreement that would favor the interests of […]

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Briefing note

Major Food Crisis in Mauritania

05/12/2002

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3 pages long

Languages: English

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This year, rainfall has been poor in the Western part of the Sahel in West Africa. Mauritania has been the hardest hit, in some regions of the country, it is the third consecutive year of poor rains. Now some 750,000 people are already affected by food shortages, nearly 30 per cent of the country’s population.

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