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    Civil society perspectives on HIV/AIDS policy in Nicaragua, Senegal, Ukraine, the United States, and Vietnam

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2007
    This report from the Open Society Institute examines groups that are excluded or marginalised from the design, implementation, and evaluation of national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes due to stigma. These groups such as injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, prisoners, and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected by the epidemic.
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    Search for Common Ground (SFCG)

    SFCG work with local partners to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively: to understand the differences and act on the commonalitie
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    Security, the War on Terror, and ODA

    North-South Institute, 2007
    Is aid now used as a tool to meet geo-political ends? Has the focus shifted away from poverty-alleviation to ‘ensuring’ that, in respect of the War on Terror (WOT), recipient governments do not become unstable and a breeding ground for ‘terrorists’?
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    Who benefits from GM crops?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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    House Financial Services Committee (U.S Government)

    Committee overseeing all components of the nation's housing and financial services sectors including banking, insurance, real estate, public and assisted housing, and securities.
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    Medair

    Medair brings life-saving relief and rehabilitation in disasters, conflict areas, and other crises by working alongside the most vulnerable.
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    Credit cards and older Americans

    House Financial Services Committee (U.S Government), 2007
    This is a transcript of a U.S. House of Representatives hearing that focused on credit card issues facing older consumers, causing rising levels of personal debt, especially among fixed-income older Americans. The hearing also looked at options older consumers have when trying to reduce credit card debt and the special challenges that they face in this effort.
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    Converging patterns in global food consumption and food delivery systems

    Economic Research Service, USDA, 2008
    This feature examines the converging food consumption patterns, which are measured by spending on different types of food products. The document discusses issues that include:
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    How many struggle to get by in retirement?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
    The dramatic decline in the official poverty rate of adults age 65 and older over the last four decades in the United States leads many to assume that reducing poverty among older adults need not be a Government priority. This general observation fails to recognise the deficiencies in the official measure of poverty in the United States.
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    Military vs. climate security

    Foreign Policy in Focus, 2008
    The paper argues that there is an inadequate improvement on the ratio between military and climate change spending by the US government, given the relative magnitude and impact of climate change problems.

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