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Briefing note

Biofuelling Poverty: Why the EU renewable fuel target may be disastrous for poor people

01/11/2007

5 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

In January of this year, the European Commission published its Renewable Energy Roadmap, proposing a mandatory target that biofuels must provide ten per cent of member states’ transport fuels by 2020. This target is creating a scramble to supply in the South, posing a serious threat to vulnerable people at risk from land-grabbing, exploitation, and […]

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Briefing paper

The World is Still Waiting: Broken G8 promises are costing millions of lives

29/05/2007

5 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish

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Overview

As the 2007 German G8 summit approaches, the demands of the millions of anti-poverty campaigners worldwide are clear. G8 leaders must increase and improve aid to provide health, education, water and sanitation for all. They must cancel more debt and deliver trade justice. They must take urgent action to bring peace to the world’s most […]

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Briefing paper

Paying for People: Financing the skilled workers needed to deliver health and education services for all

22/04/2007

4 documents

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

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Education financing

Overview

Millions of people are dying, sick, or out of school because there are not enough teachers, nurses, and doctors in poor countries. Some poor-country governments have doubled expenditure on health and education since 2000 but still cannot afford to pay for these workers, so aid must plug the gap. But current aid is failing poor […]

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Briefing note

The Tsunami Two Years On: Land rights in Aceh

30/11/2006

4 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish

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Overview

Aceh, the northern-most province of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, suffered terribly in the tsunami of December 2004. The water washed over 800km of coastline, killing 169,000 people and leaving 600,000 homeless. In several areas, no buildings, roads, or trees were left standing. Large areas of land were permanently lost. Sumatra as then hit by […]

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Briefing paper

Patents Versus Patients: Five years after the Doha Declaration

14/11/2006

8 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish

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Overview

Five years ago, members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) signed a ministerial agreement to ensure that intellectual property rules would no longer obstruct developing countries’ efforts to protect public health. Since then, however, little has changed. Patented medicines continue to be priced out of reach for the world’s poorest people. Trade rules remain a […]

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Briefing note

Unequal Partners: How EUACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) could harm the development prospects of many of the world’s poorest countries

27/09/2006

6 documents

17 pages long

Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish

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Trade policy

Overview

The Doha ‘Development’ Round of trade talks has stalled, but the world’s poorest countries remain under pressure to open up their markets with potentially disastrous consequences. These negotiations were meant to ‘make trade fair’, but they were blocked by the USA and EU, unwilling to address the rigged rules and double standards from which they […]

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Campaign report

In the Public Interest: Health, education and water and sanitation for all

01/09/2006

6 documents

126 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

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Overview

This report shows that building strong public services in developing countries is at the heart of making poverty history. Doing this could transform the lives of millions of people – and, with political leadership, is well within the grasp of our generation. Governments must take responsibility for providing essential services that are well staffed, affordable […]

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Briefing note

The View from the Summit: Gleneagles G8 one year on

09/06/2006

4 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese

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Overview

On 31 March 2006 the Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa announced that from that day on basic health care would be free to everyone. This was made possible partly due to the money saved following the cancellation of Zambia’s $5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). A visit to the clinic for basic medicines, […]

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