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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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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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Boxing Match in Agricultural Trade: Will WTO negotiations knock out the worlds poorest farmers?

01/11/2002

2 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

Agricultural trade could play a key role in the fight against poverty. But in practice the rules which govern world agricultural trade benefit the rich rather than the poor. Rich countries spend vast sums of money protecting the interests of their producers, while at the same time forcing poor countries to open their markets to […]

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Briefing paper

Stop the Dumping! How EU agricultural subsidies are damaging livelihoods in the developing world

01/10/2002

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

European Union agricultural subsidies are destroying livelihoods in developing countries. By encouraging over-production and export dumping, these subsidies are driving down world prices of key commodities, such as sugar, dairy, and cereals. Reforming a system in which Europe’s large landowners and agribusinesses get rich on subsidies, while smallholder farmers in developing countries suffer the consequences, […]

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Briefing paper

Death on the Doorstep of the Summit

01/08/2002

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

As thousands of delegates converge on Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 13 million people face severe food shortages and famine in the neighbouring countries of southern Africa. This crisis has many causes. One cause is the failure of 15 years of agricultural reforms designed by the World Bank and IMF to deliver […]

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Briefing paper

Africa at the Crossroads: Time to deliver

01/03/2002

3 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Overview

Africa is at a crossroads. Despite the development efforts of the past two decades, Africans are getting poorer. Over 300 million people live on less than US$1 dollar per day. Life expectancy is 48 years and falling. Twenty-eight million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 40 per cent of children are out of school. The […]

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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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Overview

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 paper

Formula for Fairness: Patient rights before patent rights

05/07/2001

2 documents

49 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Overview

The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) – the new twenty-year patent regime that the World Trade Organization (WTO) requires all member states to implement – is likely to keep prices of vital new medicines higher than they otherwise would be and thereby exacerbate the vast health disparities between rich and poor […]

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Briefing paper

Dare to Lead: Public health and company wealth

01/01/2001

2 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Access to medicines

Overview

This is the first in a series of Oxfam Briefings analysing the impact on human development of transnational corporations (TNCs). It reviews the role of the newly formed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and outlines three challenges facing GSK and other global pharmaceutical companies wishing to increase poor people’s access to medicines. First, how to ensure that changes […]

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