Legal frameworks & institutions
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- The supervision of security should be the responsibility of civilians
- ( C. Contreras (ed) / La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) , 2007)
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The goal of this report is to contribute to an understanding of the political and institutional processes taking place in Latin America related to the security sector since the region's wide-s...
- Land grab or land investment: lessons from Africa
- ( Economic and Social Department, FAO , 2009)
- Foreign acquisitions of farm land in developing countries have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider them a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. However, in...
- Can natural resources be managed effectively by bylaws in Western Africa?
- ( K. Alinon (ed);A. Kalinganire (ed) / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action , 2008)
- This paper discusses the historical changes in power delegation from central origins to secondary institutions. The analysis covers the rise of bylaws across the Western African countries and links th...
- Torture and repression: condoned by Syria's exceptional court
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2009)
- This report examines the activities of the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) in Syria set up during the state of emergency in 1963. While the the SSSC was set up to prosecute those it deemed a threa...
- Mainstreaming biotechnology regulation in China
- ( J. Keeley / , 2003)
- This working paper looks at the politics of biosafety regulation and risk assessment in China’s growing biotech industry with respect to genetically modified (GM) crops.The central question exam...
- Tackling discrimination against women in the Arab world
- ( M. Sabra / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2009)
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One of the root causes of the social and economic problems in the Arab world is the structural discrimination against women in these countries, a conclusion reached by the Arab Human Development Re...
- Benefit sharing in community based management in the Mekong region
- ( S. Mahanty (ed);K. Burslem (ed);E. Lee (ed) / Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific , 2007)
- This book attempts to answer the question of whether the benefits of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) initiatives will be sufficient to raise rural people out of poverty, and provid...
- Effective management and cooperation of transboundary waters
- ( C. Sadoff (ed);T. Greiber (ed);M. Smith (ed);G. Bergkamp (ed) / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) , 2008)
- Nations share more than 260 international river basins which cover nearly half of the Earth’s surface. As demand for water grows in all countries, these shared resources will increasingly be dra...
- How to combat human trafficking
- ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , 2008)
- With the tide of human trafficking rising rather than falling, the need for effective prevention policies is unquestionable. This toolkit updates and expands upon the UNODC toolkit of the same name pu...
- The Chinese environmental movement: a comparative study of two cities
- ( L. Xie;P. Hob / Conservation and Society , 2008)
- This article analyses the characteristics of the Chinese environmental movement in terms of their organisational development and strategies. A comparative study of two Chinese cases - Shanghai and Xia...
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