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Fear and want: obstacles to human security
Social Watch, 2004Acknowledging that it is impossibe to answer many specific questions on current events, this report aims to make its own contribution to the debate by examining which grassroots organisations around the world are engaged in the frontline of the battle against poverty and discrimination.DocumentUnderstanding environment, conflict, and cooperation
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004This report seeks to guide researchers and policymakers in their understanding of the complex set of connections that tie environment, conflict and cooperation.Chapters from this report emerged from the workshop’s discussions of analysis, institutional responses, integrated assessment and early warning systems.DocumentWorkshop and policy forum on the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2004This paper reports on a conference on internal displacement held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 2004.DocumentResisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa
CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004This study focuses on the legislative frameworks and country practices relating to freedom of association, expression and assembly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The study focuses on the grave and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, as part of an advocacy intervention under the Civil Society Watch Programme.DocumentInnocenti Social Monitor 2004: the MONEE Project CEE/CIS/Baltic states
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004This paper reviews four areas of child poverty and well-being in CEE, CIS and Baltic States, exploring links with issues such as economic growth, labour markets, migration and drugs use. It argues that a rights based approach must be taken to ensure inclusion, participation and redistribution of the benefits of economic progress.DocumentCritical food shortages in Darfur
Save the Children Fund, 2004This report by Save the Children details the results of a study into the levels of malnutrition and food shortages in Malha, in the Dafur region of Sudan.Assessment teams completed field surveys in May 2004, and have found the following:an acute crisis in nutritional status with 33 per cent of the population in north Darfur malnourished and 5.4 per cent severely malnourished - in a normDocumentEcoviolence: evidence for neo-Malthusian concerns, 1950-2000
Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, 2003Demographic and environmental factors have claimed a dominant position in post-Cold War security discourse.DocumentSocial inclusion: a pre-requisite for equitable and sustainable natural resource management: two experiences in Mali
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003This paper calls for the involvement of all stakeholders in managing of common property resources. The authors suggest that degradation of natural resources is primarily due to the conflict of interest between different stakeholder and base their argument on experiences of programme support to decentralised natural resource management in Mali.DocumentStolen children: abduction and recruitment in northern Uganda
Human Rights Watch, 2003This report discusses the current situation in Uganda in relation to child abduction and recruitment into warfare.DocumentHave gun give food: agriculture, nutrition, and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa
WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004This working paper, presented at the UNU-WIDER Conference on “Making Peace Work”, considers whether nutritional and agricultural crises may contribute to triggering civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa.From a statistical analysis of the relationship between nutritional and agricultural variables and the outbreak of civil war, the authors find that:protein and calorie supply are statisticallyPages