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Briefing paper

Lock, Stock and Barrel: How British arm components add up to deadly weapons

01/02/2004

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22 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Since 1997, the UK has introduced robust criteria aimed at preventing the sale of weapons to countries where they could fuel conflict, undermine development, and violate human rights. But in today’s global arms trade, weapons are increasingly assembled from components from many countries. Between 1998 and 2002, there was a four-fold increase in licences for […]

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Briefing paper

From ‘Donorship’ to Ownership?: Moving towards PRSP Round Two

01/01/2004

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54 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

If poor countries are to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is vital to learn the lessons from the first round of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Despite opening some new space for dialogue, Oxfam and partners feel that PRSPs have been disappointing both in terms of process and content. Oxfam welcomes the review […]

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Briefing paper

Spotlight on Subsidies: Cereal injustice under the CAP in Britain

01/01/2004

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38 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture

Overview

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) lavishes subsidies on some of Britain’s wealthiest farmers and landlords. Losers include small farmers, consumers, taxpayers, and the environment in the UK – and millions of people in developing countries. Current reform plans do not go far enough. The ‘new’ CAP will still overwhelmingly benefit a wealthy minority in Britain, […]

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Briefing note

Liberia: Critical time to end the violence

06/11/2003

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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An uneasy peace reigns in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. Yet most civilians in Liberia still face ongoing attacks on a daily basis. The UN stabilisation force in Liberia (UNMIL) and the regional multinational force that preceded it, the Economic Community of West African States’ Mission in Liberia (ECOMIL), have been crucial in establishing […]

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Briefing paper

The Euro-Mediterranean Agreements: Partnership or penury?

06/11/2003

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14 pages long

Languages: English

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Trade policy

Overview

Foreign Ministers are due to meet in Naples to discuss the next steps in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership on December 2 and 3. The vision behind the free trade zone is to bring greater stability and prosperity to the whole region. However, the EU stands to gain most from the deal at a time when poverty […]

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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

Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich? How the United States keeps medicines from the world’s poorest

01/11/2003

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37 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Impressive advances in medicine and technology have boosted health and extended life expectancy – but not for everyone. Vital new medicines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS are priced out of reach of the millions of sick people in the developing world, in part due to global patent rules which restrict the availability of affordable generic […]

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Briefing paper

The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries

01/09/2003

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35 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The IMF needs to radically change the way it works in low income countries. It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs. If it does this it can play a vital, proactive and dynamic role as […]

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Briefing paper

Dumping Without Borders: How US agricultural policies are destroying the livelihoods of Mexican corn farmers

01/08/2003

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33 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Mexican corn sector is in acute crisis because of the influx of cheap subsidised corn imports from the US. Poor Mexican farmers cannot compete against US producers, who receive $10bn a year in subsidies. Action is required at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun in September 2003 to end agricultural dumping, together with action […]

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Briefing paper

Running into the Sand: Why failure at the Cancun trade talks threatens the world’s poorest people

01/08/2003

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44 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

In September 2003 world trade ministers meet in Cancun Mexico to start a new phase in the Doha ‘development round’. The meeting provides an opportunity to reform the unfair trade rules that systematically disadvantage the world’s poorest countries. Urgent action is needed to stop agricultural dumping, protect access to affordable medicines, improve market access, and […]

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