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Climate Change Impacts on Development: A note of Oxfam’s experiences for the Stern Review

01/01/2005

1 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate change adaptation

Overview

Climate change – in the sense of rapid, large-scale and noticeable climate change, unusual in people’s experience – is happening already. This is having important economic and social effects. It is making life more precarious for many people, particularly those who are already the poorest. Yet people are not passive, but are changing their lives […]

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Let’s Talk to the Media: Practical guide for refugee community organisations and refugee practitioners on working with the media

01/12/2004

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The purpose of this guide is to share the Refugee Media Group’s experiences of working with local and regional media over 4 years encouraging accurate asylum reporting and ensuring the voices of men and women asylum seekers and refugees are heard. It is intended as a guide for refugee community organisations, or any local groups, […]

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Reintegration Assessment Report: Oxfam GB in Liberia

26/03/2004

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In preparation to work in post-conflict communities in diverse areas of Liberia, Oxfam GB undertook a study to better understand people’s views about the reintegration process. The Protection Advisor and Program Officer from the Liberia office spoke to approximately sixty individuals: civilians living in their home communities, displaced persons in camps and villages, and current […]

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Tarnished Legacy

04/02/2004

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali’s Syama Goldmine

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Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold

14/11/2003

3 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

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Extractives

Overview

A new claim under the investment rules in Chapter 11 of NAFTA has been initiated by Glamis Gold, a Canadian mining company that has demanded $50 million in compensation from the US because of California restrictions on open-pit gold mining. The initiation of the claim reinforces the threats to environmental laws from investment rules, and […]

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Migration and Development: Oxfam GB written submission for the international development committee

01/11/2003

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

Overview

Oxfam written submission for the UK Parliament International Development Committee, recommending that UK and EU governments reframe their migration policies to integrate social and economic development in migrants’ home countries with entry and integration in host societies.

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Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation?

09/04/2003

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Extractives

Overview

World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa

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A Fair Chance: Attaining gender equality in basic education by 2005

02/04/2003

1 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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Girls' education

Overview

The main purpose of this report is to inform campaigning and advocacy work in the North and South on girls’ education. The report highlights the progress that has been made in reducing gender gaps in education in the developing world and the size of the challenge that remains. It has been coordinated by three member […]

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Alive and Kicking: Women’s and men’s respones to poverty and globalisation in the UK

19/03/2003

1 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Livelihoods

Overview

This paper explores what it means to be poor in a country generally percieved as wealthy, and how poverty itself is shaped by people’s gender identity and their relationships to a changing labour market. Some of the issues raised will also have a resonance in other contexts where paid employment has in the past been […]

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Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda: Kampala, June 2002

07/03/2003

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This research is an attempt to understand the current situation in Uganda int erms of access to ARVs. It describes what role generic alternatives to branded ARVs have played in reducing prices and increasing access to antiretroviral therapies (ART). In addition, it reviews the laws governing pharmaceutical patients in Uganda, as well as the newly […]

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