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  Internationally recognised core labour standards in Nigeria

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005

  This report assesses the respect and the observance of internationally recognised core labour standards in Nigeria.
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  Environmental impact assessments: encouraging collaboration between companies, communities and government

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The Shell Petroleum Development Corporation is Nigeria’s largest oil and gas producer. The Corporation is responsible for forty per cent of the country’s output. Its operations are concentrated in the Niger Delta and adjoining shallow off-shore areas.
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  Neither war nor peace

  Children and youth in Organised Armed Violence, 2005

  This study identifies a number of regions affected by children and youth in organised armed violence (COAV), exploring causes and trends of the problem as well as suggesting policy oriented guidelines for policy makers within the international forum for the implementation of practical steps to treat COAV.
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  Bringing equality home: promoting and protecting the inheritance rights of women

  Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2004

  In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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  Putting ‘justice’ into the juvenile justice system

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Across the globe, children who live and work on the streets are particularly vulnerable to human rights violations in juvenile justice systems. Not only are they more likely to have contact with the police and the courts, but they are also less able to defend themselves from abuse. Experiences reported by children go against rights specified in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child.
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  Towards an effective Protected Areas Network in Africa: experience in assessing protected area management effectiveness and future proposals

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This report summarises contemporary African experience with assessment of management effectiveness, drawing on a range of case studies (in South Africa, Congo Basin, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa), including outputs from a workshop organised by WWF and the World Bank in Kribi, Cameroon in June 2002 and subsequent assessments.
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  Women’s sexual control within conjugal union: Implications for HIV/AIDS infection and control in a metropolitan city

  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2005

  This study, published in Demographic Research, examines the extent to which women have control over their sexuality within marriage in Lagos, Nigeria, and its implications for the spread of HIV. Findings from the study show that women have some control over their sexuality, such as during menstruation, breastfeeding, pregnancy and sickness.
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  Nigeria: study of non-state providers of basic services

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004

  This paper looks at the service delivery of health, urban water and education by non-state providers (NSPs) in Nigeria.Each sector study focused on three broad forms of government (or civil society) intervention or action: dialogue between state and non-state actors in deciding and reviewing policy and legislation about standards and regulatory systems; the implementation of interventions to re
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  Lower costs do not mean better health care in Nigeria

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Charging fees for medical treatment can bring in desperately needed revenue and may discourage people from using health services unnecessarily. However, it can also prevent the poorest members of society, particularly in rural areas, from seeking treatment.  Are Nigerians on low incomes willing to pay for health care when they need it?
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  Macroeconomic policies and pro-poor growth in Nigeria

  University of Lagos, Nigeria, 2005

  Despite enjoying positive economic growth for most of the time since independence, and a number of government programmes specifically aiming to reduce poverty, some studies have suggested that poverty and inequality in Nigeria have actually worsened.This study empirically evaluates the extent to which macroeconomic policies in Nigeria led to pro-poor growth during 1960-2000.

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