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    CDM country guides

    Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan, 2006
    Many developing countries are faced with a lack of consolidated information on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and this information has never been put together before in a comprehensive form.
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    Women’s right to a political voice in Thailand

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006
    This report highlights the current status of Thai women’s role in government, analyzing the reasons behind the slow progress to date, and proposing ways and means to overcome existing barriers to women in politics, be they implicit, or explicit, latent or manifest.
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    The Mekong challenge employment and protection of migrant workers in Thailand: national laws/practices versus international labour standards?

    International Labour Organization, 2005
    This report gives an overview of the immigration and human trafficking situation currently facing Thailand, and provides recommendations for combating this issue. The report notes that Thailand continues to experience a high rate of immigrants due to its labour market which acts as a pull factor in the region.
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    Child domestic labour in South-East and East Asia: emerging good practices to combat it

    International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2006
    This report explores the recent situation of child domestic labour in the South-East and East Asia and the actions that are being taken to combat it in the region.Part I of the report provides an overview of child domestic labour in the region, based on existing publications and documentation.
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    Exploring the relationship between happiness, objective and subjective well-being: evidence from rural Thailand

    ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2006
    Well-being is a broad concept ranging from subjective accounts of individuals' happiness to fulfilment or satisfaction of a given list of capabilities, functionings or needs.
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    Pandemic threat: poorer Asia-Pacific countries unprepared for major flu outbreak

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that another global influenza or ‘flu’ pandemic could soon strike. This is likely to centre on the Asia-Pacific region, where 30 new infectious diseases have emerged in recent years, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and a new strain of avian flu, caused by the H5N1 virus.
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    Principles into practice: learning from innovative rights based programming

    CARE International, 2005
    Based on 16 case studies carried out by CARE International the report argues for the use of rights-based approaches (RBAs) when addressing issues of social injustice and poverty.The report lists 5 challenges that arise when applying RBAs: obtaining the initial support: support from government authorities and counterparts is needed to create the operating space, since many of the
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    Fighting illegal activities in Asian forests

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Logging is only one of many illegal activities in South-East Asia’s forests. There are further activities that should be considered illegal because they create human insecurity and threaten sustainable forest management. The complexity of these activities, which always involve poor people, poses a challenge to effective preventative policies.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Government Offices in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos: Perspectives from Below

    Routledge, 2005
    Gender mainstreaming processes at the department and provincial/commune level have attracted relatively little attention in the gender mainstreaming debate. This article traces what has happened at this level, by examining the ways in which gender concerns have been mainstreamed into government activities in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
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    Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand

    The Levy Economics Institute, 2005
    Do men and women own similar kinds of assets? What factors influence the gender-specific composition of asset ownership? This paper focuses on gender differences in asset ownership within households in urban low-income communities in Bangkok, Thailand.

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