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Briefing paper

Engaging with Communities: The next challenge for peacekeeping

22/11/2010

8 documents

34 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam’s overall aim for the Rights in Crisis (RiC) campaign is that ‘all women and men in humanitarian crises will be assured both the protection and the assistance they require, regardless of who they are or how they are affected, in a manner consistent with their human rights’. Years of experience at the country level […]

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Case study

Brokers Without Borders: How illicit arms brokers can slip through gaps in the Pacific and international arms control system

21/10/2010

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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On 11 December 2009 a 35 ton cache of conventional weapons left North Korea bound for Iran. The following day the arms were intercepted and seized by authorities in Thailand. In an unexpected twist it was soon discovered that the plane chartered to carry out this illegal transfer was leased by a New Zealand registered […]

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Briefing note

Freedom from Fear: Regional action to protect civilians in LRA affected areas

15/10/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Tens of thousands of people will remain without life-saving aid unless the UN mission in DR Congo steps up its presence in areas brutalized by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). The horrific experiences of the communities in the Great Lakes directly affected by the LRA demand that the UN bear three harsh realities in mind: […]

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Briefing paper

Planting Now: Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti’s reconstruction

05/10/2010

8 documents

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

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Even before the devastating January 2010 earthquake, Haiti was one of the poorest and most food-insecure countries on earth. A majority of Haitians live in rural areas and depend on agricultural livelihoods, but neither the government nor the international community has paid sufficient attention to agriculture, leaving the countryside increasingly marginalized. Too often, decision-making forums […]

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Journal article

Real-time research: decolonising research practices – or just another spectacle of researcher-practitioner collaboration?

01/09/2010

15 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This article examines the experiences and outcomes from collaboration between a group of researchers and a Northern NGO to improve recovery work in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. A Real-Time Research methodology was established to follow and intervene in the recovery practices as they took place on the ground. What was […]

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Media briefing

Women and Children First: On the frontline of the war in the Kivus: Oxfam briefing on the protection of women and children in the Kivus, DRC

15/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam and 12 partner NGOs interviewed 816 people in 24 communities in North and South Kivu between 12 and 21 April 2010 on their security and protection in a context of ongoing military offensives. This was Oxfam’s fourth such protection assessment in the Kivus since 2007, and focused specifically on areas affected by the military […]

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Issue briefing

UK National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review: Oxfam GB Submission

13/07/2010

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

UK National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review: Oxfam GB Submission

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Journal article

Failed aid: how development agencies are neglecting and marginalising Rwandan genocide survivors

01/05/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

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This Viewpoint argues that international development aid agencies have failed adequately to address the rights and needs of genocide survivors in Rwanda. It illustrates that genocide survivors remain impoverished and marginalised, and that development aid agencies only tangentially, if at all, acknowledge their vulnerability and take steps to empower them to realise their rights. It […]

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Policy position

The International Criminal Court

01/04/2010

2 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Overview

The International Criminal Court was created to help ensure that the gravest crimes in International law are punished. Its Statute was adopted by 120 countries in Rome in 1998, and the court was formally established in July 2002, when the Statute was ratified by the 60 states required. Since then, 50 more countries have ratified […]

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Briefing paper

Haiti: A Once-in-a-Century Chance for Change: Beyond reconstruction: re-envisioning Haiti with equity, fairness, and opportunity

26/03/2010

8 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

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Before the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti was showing signs of dynamism. However, the pre-existing extreme levels of poverty and inequality exacerbated the devastation. Haiti’s reconstruction, if badly managed, will perpetuate the country’s inequality, benefiting the rich and creating new risk for the poor. If well managed, it really could help to build a […]

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