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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.
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    The last hold outs: ending the juvenile death penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan and Yemen

    Human Rights Watch, 2008
    Strongly advocating banning the juvenile death penalty, this paper looks at a number of countries where the juvenile death penalty is sill used, namely Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen. The authors conclude with a number of recommendations.
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    The status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2007
    Poverty in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA) is mainly a rural phenomenon. Almost half (48%) the area’s population lives in rural areas. This report focuses on key rural poverty issues in 13 diverse countries in the region, without attempting to propose policy or programme actions at national or local levels.
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    A sustainable return for displaced people in southern Sudan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended Sudan’s civil war and set up a framework for the return of millions of refugees. However, the peace agreement is fragile, there is great insecurity, governments cannot deliver services and funding is restricted. In such circumstances, adequate support for both refugees and host communities is essential.
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    Gender and landmines - from concept to practice

    Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines, 2008
    The relevance of gender has taken time to impose itself clearly to anti landmine programmers, decision-makers, implementers, donors, and stakeholders working in the area of mine action.The main treaties regulating general mine action activities (the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its additional Protocol II) are gender blind and do not explicitly discuss the
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    How Africa can get more from relations with China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    China’s emergence is having a big impact on Africa. But the relationship presents challenges as well as opportunities. How can Africa influence Chinese policy in order to benefit more from its relations with this important partner?
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    Can the Sudan achieve the MDGs given its past and present expenditure allocation patterns?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    In recent years there has been enormous concern about whether or not the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) and non-HIPCs will be able to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This document reviews some of the contributions that have aimed to sustain debt relief and at the same time achieve the MDGs in lower income countries (LICs).
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    Balancing humanitarian and human rights needs in Darfur

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Humanitarian agencies responding to the suffering in Darfur have not only provided relief, but also spoken out on the politics of the crisis. In doing so, they have angered the Sudanese Government in Khartoum, which has come to see them as tools of Western interference. Humanitarian agencies risk compromising their commitment to neutrality and jeopardising operations in the field.
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    Can the Sudan achieve the MDGs given its past and present expenditure allocation patterns?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    This paper assesses the potential and possible pitfalls, for Sudan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This assessment is based on an analysis of past and present expenditure patterns of Sudan. The paper recommends that Sudan should promote a long-term government development strategy, which should aim to sustain economic growth and maintain macroeconomic stability.
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    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.

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