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    Politics v humanitarianism on the front line – can the UN get its act together?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Are peacekeeping operations incoherent? Has the humanitarian imperative of protecting and saving lives in conflict taken second place to UN peace operations? Has pursuit of the myth of sustainable peace distracted the UN from the more immediate necessity of keeping people alive?
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    Review of the strategic framework for Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002
    The purpose of this review is to assess the extent to which the Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (SFA) has met its aims of improving the effectiveness of the assistance programme in Afghanistan and in making progress towards building peace.The paper concludes that whilst the SFA is a bold and imaginative initiative it has not yet achieved the objective of coherence between political, human r
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    Is the UNHCR doing its job?: Combining refugee relief with local development in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Food and water deprivation, inadequate health and education facilities, prison-like restrictions on freedom of movement, ethnic and gender violence, ad-hoc justice and collective punishment: this is how Cairo- based refugee scholar Barbara Harrell-Bond recently described the plight of many refugees in UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) camps in Africa.
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    Is aid in crisis?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Are aid agencies addressing the causes of conflict in dysfunctional states? Can humanitarian assistance be neutral when aid is an instrument of foreign policy wielded by powerful donor states? In an era of disintegrating state authority are aid providers succeeding in attempts to make relief more development-oriented?
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    State of the world's mothers 2003: protecting women and children in war and conflict

    Save the Children Fund, 2003
    This year's State of the World’s Mothers report focuses on the tens of millions of mothers and children whose lives have been affected by armed conflict, bringing attention to critical protection needs in war-torn communities around the world.Findings include:the Conflict Protection Scorecard identifies Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone as f
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    Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

    Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002
    This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.
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    Humanitarian and human rights emergencies

    Brookings Institution, 2001
    As the world's only super-power and a major humanitarian aid donor, the United States has a critical role in shaping the response to these emergencies.This policy briefing states that whether or not the Bush administration decides to maintain American leadership in this area, it will have to develop firm guidelines for humanitarian action in the cases it chooses to address.
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    Gender equity and sustainable development

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    Positioning gender equity as an essential building block of sustainable development the paper "addresses a small number of gender-sensitive issues which need to be taken into account by policy-makers and stakeholders working on solutions to the urgent economic, political, social and environmental problems we face".The issues covered are:Human rights and self-determination - looking part
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    People in peril: human rights, humanitarian action, and preventing deadly conflict

    Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 1998
    Intolerance of diversity within states frequently explodes into mass violence.
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    Afghanistan and humanitarian action

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2001
    Series of articles from the HPN Humanitarian Exchange focusing on experience of humanitarian intervention in AfghanistanArticles focus on The politicisation of humanitarian aid and its consequences for AfghansThe Strategic Framework and Principled Common ProgrammingHumanitarian aid and human rights Natural disasters and complex political emergencies: responding to drought

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