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Population control in the new world order

01/11/1992

6 pages long

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Population control in the new world order

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Population-control programmes can violate basic human rights and be a form of violence against women. The author presents her views on family planning as a form of social control arising from a neo-Malthusian world view which blames poverty and environmental degradation on population growth while obscuring the real causes: the increasing control of economic, political […]

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Beyond NGDOs: Is Utopia still viable?

01/05/1992

7 pages long

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This article describes the need for non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) to examine and so enhance their role if they are to take an active part in the shaping of a structurally different society. It is argued that mainstream NGDOs belong to a broader alternative movement which is involved in the search for equitable and sustainable […]

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Famine and human rights

01/05/1991

7 pages long

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Famine is clearly and undeniably a terrible wrong, and famine is preventable. The occurrence of famine is an indictment of the ethics of the country in which it has occurred. Despite this, those claiming to represent ethical concerns in general and human rights in particular have had little impact on either understanding famine or dealing […]

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Book

Brazil: A mask called progress

01/01/1991

1 documents

130 pages long

Languages: English

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Based on Oxfam’s 20 years of development experience in Brazil, A Mask Called Progress examines the conflicts that have brought many traditional communities to the edge of extinction, and threaten to destroy one of the richest natural environments on earth. In their own words, the people of the Brazilian rainforest – rubber-tappers and indigenous people […]

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Book

We Cry for our Land: Farm workers in South Africa

01/01/1990

1 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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In this book, black South African farm workers describe their working lives in their own words. Six million people – labourers and their families – are virtually no better off than slaves. The law guarantees them neither paid sick leave nor holidays, neither a guaranteed minimum wage nor overtime payments. They can be dismissed and […]

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Book

Central America Testimony

01/01/1988

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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During Central America Week in March 1988, hundreds of British people gave evidence to the Central America Testimony. Bishops and bricklayers, teachers and nurses who had visited the region and worked there testified at public meetings.

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Book

Indigenous Peoples: A field guide for development

01/01/1988

1 documents

169 pages long

Languages: English

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Throughout the world there are minority peoples who lead their lives independently of the nation state. Over generations they have watched national boundaries harden around and through their territories until they have become outcasts in their own lands. The economic activities of national societies have further undermined these people by encroaching on their land base […]

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Book

One in Ten: Disability and the very poor

01/01/1981

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Today, one in ten of the population of the Third World is disabled. The International Year of Disabled People is a good time to look at what causes that disability and what can be done about it. This booklet is designed to do that by increasing an understanding of what ‘ needs to be done […]

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