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Global Music Lessons for ages 7-11

08/09/2007

5 documents

Languages: English

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Designed to tie in with Oxjam, these activities celebrate music from across the globe. Choose from numerous stand-alone lessons, offering opportunities for singing, performing, composing, improvising, listening, and appraising. You can also explore rhythm, timbre, texture, structure, and pitch by using music from many cultures and countries. Resources have also been created for ages 5-7, […]

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Briefing paper

A Fragile Future: Why scaling down MONUC too soon could spell disaster for the Congo

23/02/2007

3 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Democratic Republic of Congo today finds itself at a critical turning point, confronted with both the challenges and opportunities of rebuilding a nation from the ground up. The presence of United Nations peacekeepers (MONUC) has significantly reduced fighting and organised violence, and must be maintained with an appropriate troop strength and mandate to guarantee […]

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Briefing note

Meeting Real Needs: A major change for donors to the Democratic Republic of the Congo

13/02/2006

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is at a critical point in its history. While the forthcoming elections offer the country new opportunities, it is also facing rising tensions, and at least 42 million people still endure appalling poverty and suffering.

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Briefing note

The Call for Tough Arms Control: Voices from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

09/01/2006

1 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English

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The war in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has cost millions of lives. Hundreds of thousands of people have been shot dead. Millions have died from the indirect consequences of war. What the figures do not reveal is the personal suffering of individual people, families, and villages. That is why in November […]

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Briefing paper

Poverty in the Midst of Wealth: The Democratic Republic of Congo

18/01/2002

1 documents

Languages: English

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The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo has made the situation dramatically worse for the people of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But this is only the latest crisis on top of years of conflict and suffering. The ongoing war in the DRC has cost the lives of up to 2.5 million people in less than four […]

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Briefing paper

No End in Sight: The human tragedy of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

01/08/2001

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French

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In August 1998, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was plunged into a second war in less than two years. Today, exactly three years later, the country is still embroiled in a complex conflict, the effect of which is taking an unprecedented toll on the Congolese population. This report portrays the scale of the deepening […]

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Briefing note

A Forgotten War A Forgotten Emergency: The Democratic Republic of Congo

01/12/2000

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a complicated civil war continues to broil, despite the signing of the Lusaka peace accord in July 1999. An unofficial front line diagonally cuts the country in two, as heavy artillery and bombings cause thousands in the West of the country to flee in late 2000. Smallerscale attacks, arson […]

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Briefing note

Africa’s Forgotten Crises: people in peril: Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Congo

09/09/1999

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper reviews the current emergencies, and the opportunities for peace, in five countries. Four of them fall within the fifteen poorest countries in the world. These countries are so desperately poor that war – and in Ethiopia, drought too – means they can no longer cope without much more international help.

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Discussion paper

Hunters and Gatherers in Central Africa: On the margins of development

01/01/1994

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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Forest and savannah dwellers in Africa who rely on hunting and gathering for their livelihoods face an uncertain future. Their way of life is under pressure from governments, who are making concerted attempts to settle them and integrate them into alien forms of subsistence such as farming or pastoralism. Their territories are under threat from […]

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Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

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