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    Institutionalisation of regional metagovernance framework to enhance human security in East Asia

    Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University, 2008
    This paper examines the relationship between poverty alleviation and human security. It evaluates the significance of the concepts, how they are mutually reinforcing and how they contribute towards achieving sustainable development in East Asia.
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    Empowering the poor through property rights

    Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
    This paper describes, contextualises and analyses the experience of the Bento Rubião Foundation in relation to its right to land project.
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    Transitional justice options in Zimbabwe for 2009

    Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2008
    2008 in Zimbabwe began with a sense of cautious optimism surrounding the upcoming elections. By the end of year any hopes for a new Zimbabwe were hard to find. State-sponsored violence and civil unrest threw September's power-sharing agreement into disarray.
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    Waiting for the hangman

    Amnesty International, 2008
    Under international human rights standards, capital punishment can only be used after the most exacting due process of law. However, as this Amnesty International report on death penalty in Nigeria shows, the failures in the Nigerian criminal justice system routinely breach international human rights law and standards.
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    Equality for women: a handbook for NHRIs on economic, social and cultural rights

    Equitas- International Centre for Human Rights Education, 2008
    Like all standards and aspirations, women's economic, social and cultural rights ultimately depend on the ability to enforce them.This handbook is intended as a specific tool for national human rights institutions to enhance their work in protecting and promoting women’s equality through economic, social and cultural rights.
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    From poverty to dignity: a learning manual on human rights based development

    Dignity International, 2007
    Human rights provide a moral, authoritative, and legal framework to tackle root causes of poverty, deep-seated structures of discrimination, and the processes of impoverishment from local to global levels. A human rights framework not only offers distinctive strengths but also specific tools for development work.
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    Rights and livelihoods approaches: exploring policy dimensions

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    How do rights-based and livelihoods approaches to development complement each other? How can livelihoods-focused policy be built on a rights framework? This Overseas Development Institute (ODI) paper in the Natural Resource Perspectives (NRP) series examines the ways in which pro-poor rights-based work can support and enhance livelihoods-based development policy.
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    Legal challenges to unfair debt

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Many developing countries are burdened with huge foreign debts. Repayment, even if limited to paying interest, uses up scarce resources while large parts of the population live in poverty. Much developing country debt comprises morally and legally questionable loans taken by unconstitutional or illegitimate regimes. There may be a legal basis for refusing to repay such loans.
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    Ending the culture of violence in Latin America

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Colombia and Guatemala are among the world’s most persistently violent countries. Chronic violence is carried out by both state and non-state groups, in schools, other public spaces or within families. Amidst widespread fear and mistrust, a range of civil society organisations are promoting non-violence and good citizenship.
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    The state of world's human rights: Amnesty International report 2008

    Amnesty International, 2008
    This Amnesty International report 2008 documents human rights issues in 150 countries and territories around the world. It covers the period January-December 2007, and reveals a world riven by inequality, scarred by discrimination and distorted by political repression.

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