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Indians Demand Equality for Women

23/09/2013

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28 pages long

Languages: English

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CLOSETHEGAP is Oxfam India’s innovative new campaign for equality. It challenges manifestations of inequality in all areas, such as property rights, health, education, the right tofood and nutrition, and budgetary allocations for marginalised groups. The campaign began by focusing on gender inequality, asking the general public the ways in which they would close the gap between men […]

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Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

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The Food Transformation: Harnessing consumer power to create a fair food future

18/07/2012

4 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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The food system is a complex web of people, businesses, organizations and governments involved in the production, distribution, sale and consumption of food. Irrespective of who we are or where we are on the planet, the food we eat is made available by this global food system. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, […]

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Weathering the Crises, Feeding the Future: Philippine food justice report

26/10/2011

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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At the height of the food price crisis in 2008, the Philippines was among the countries with ‘severe localized food insecurity’, requiring external assistance in food. A series of severe weather-related events in 2009 damaged the economy, costing more than twice the national budget for agriculture that year. In 2010, rice imports reached an all-time […]

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Nourish South Asia: Growing a better future for regional food justice

26/09/2011

1 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English

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Forty percent of the world’s hungry people lived in South Asia even before the food price crisis of 2008. Hunger stalks the entire region, from the mountain slopes of Nepal to the arid plains of southern Afghanistan. Although large-scale famines have largely been kept at bay, millions of poor people are unable to afford two […]

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Health and Education For All: What you need to know

25/04/2008

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Classrooms with teachers, clinics with nurses, affordable medicines, running taps, and working toilets – for millions of people in poor countries these things are a distant dream, and there is no reason why this should be the case. Yet these vital public services – health, education, water and sanitation – can transform the lives of […]

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Class of 2007: Not up to scratch

01/05/2007

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Each year, GCE holds donor governments to account for their promises on education, using this ‘School Report’ as the method to benchmark their performance. In 2007, campaigners and learners, parents and children, were expecting to see rich nations race for the finishing line of 2015 – the date set by the world to achieve a […]

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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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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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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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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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Mugged: Poverty in our coffee cup

01/04/2002

3 documents

59 pages long

Languages: English, Portuguese

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This paper looks at the effect of unfair trade policies on coffee growers in developing countries. 25million coffee growers face severe threats to their livelihoods as a result of declining profit margins linked to the falling price of coffee in the international market. The price of coffee has fallen by 50 percent in the past […]

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