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Protecting Bangladesh's migrant labourers

This IID briefing examines labour migration from Bangladesh and outlines necessary policy reforms and initiatives needed for the Bangladesh government to be able to promote safe labour migration for its citizens.

Media in Africa: twenty years after Windhoek Declaration

What are the challenges facing the development of African media? This collection of essays considers what has changed In the twenty years since the landmark Windhoek Declaration called for a free, independent and pluralistic media in Africa.

Tackling poverty in a changing climate

This Key Issues Guide from CDKN and Eldis has been developed to consider processes that have fundamental implications for climate change and poverty efforts, but which do not currently receive the attention they deserve - deagrarianisation, urbanisation, migration, and equity and economic growth.

Born, lived and died - but counted or not?

The unavailability of cause-of-death information limits efforts in health policy formulation. The articles in this brief, from IDS Knowledge Services, the ALPHA Network and INDEPTH, explain the importance of being able to collect cause-of-death information and suggest a way forward with the use of verbal autopsies in places where deaths are not recorded.

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