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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

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40 pages long

Languages: English

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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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Take the Guns Away: Afghan voices on security and elections

30/09/2004

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30 pages long

Languages: English

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The voices of the majority of Afghans are simply not heard nor heeded in thecorridors of power in Kabul, Washington, New York, and Brussels. Inevitably, much of the policy discussion about Afghanistan in the country and around the world focuses on the big picture. While not claiming to be statistically representative of the Afghan population, […]

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Reintegration Assessment Report: Oxfam GB in Liberia

26/03/2004

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22 pages long

Languages: English

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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

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62 pages long

Languages: English

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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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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

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19 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees and IDPs

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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

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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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

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72 pages long

Languages: English

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Girls' education

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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

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9 pages long

Languages: English

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Livelihoods

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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

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33 pages long

Languages: English

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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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