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Briefing note

EuroMed: Seeds of a raw deal

01/06/2004

3 documents

6 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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In December 2003, the Ministers of the European Union (EU) and Arab Mediterranean countries agreed to speed up talks to achieve a higher level of progressive and reciprocal liberalisation of agricultural trade across both shores of the Mediterranean.

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Briefing paper

Dumping on the World: How EU sugar policies hurt poor countries

01/03/2004

2 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

European Union (EU) sugar policies hamper global efforts to reduce poverty. Export subsidies are used to dump 5 million tonnes of surplus sugar annually on world markets, destroying opportunities for exporters in developing countries. Meanwhile, producers in Africa have limited access to EU markets. The winners from the CAP sugar regime are big farmers and […]

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Briefing note

Make Poverty History: The role of the Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (NRG4SD) in meeting the Millennium Development Goals

01/03/2004

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Welsh

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Overview

In September 2000, 189 UN member states signed the Millennium Development Declaration, pledging to halve global poverty by 2015. To date, many governments have broken their promises by failing to take the action needed to meet the agreed goals. With ten years to go, 2005 must see a step-change in commitments from governments in both […]

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Briefing paper

White Gold Turns to Dust: Which way forward for cotton in West Africa?

01/03/2004

2 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French

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West African farmers continue to face severe deprivation because of depressed cotton prices. One factor is the dumping of exports from the USA, where overproduction is the result of government handouts worth $2.3bn. The US government shamefully disregarded the Africans when they took their complaint to the WTO, but the issue remains high on the […]

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Book

Women Reinventing Globalisation

10/12/2003

2 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

Women Reinventing Globalisation is a collection of articles drawn from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)’s Ninth International Forum, on this subject. Development researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, and feminist activists, debated and charted the impact of globalisation on women’s status and their daily lives. Concrete strategies were developed, to ensure that globalisation […]

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Campaign report

Beyond the Headlines: An agenda for action to protect civilians in neglected conflicts

03/11/2003

3 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Since the atrocities of September 11th 2001, the leaders of the major international powers have been focused upon confronting what they perceive as the greatest threat to world security: the combination of weapons of mass destruction and international terrorism. At the 2003 G8 summit in France, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, […]

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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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Overview

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

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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Overview

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

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

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

Milking the CAP: How Europe’s dairy regime is devastating livelihoods in the developing world

05/12/2002

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

European citizens are supporting the dairy industry to the tune of ‚¬16 billion a year. This is equivalent to more than $2 per cow per day – half the world’s people live on less than this amount. EU surpluses of milk and milk products are dumped on world markets using costly export subsidies, which destroy […]

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