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    The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev)

    The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev) is a funding mechanism for practical capacity building, training, technical assistance, implementation support, awareness-raisi
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    Secure land rights for all

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas.
  • Document

    We have degrees in violence: a report on torture and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2007
    This report details the state-sponsored violence in Zimbabwe. It is based on the detailed testimony and medical examination of 24 individuals who were subjected to torture or political violence during March and April 2007. The report says that the Zimbabwean government is systematically utilising torture and violence as a means of deterring political opposition. Its main findings include:
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    Pakistan: the land of religious apartheid and jackboot justice

    Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007
    Pakistan has refused to cooperate with the International Convention Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Committee (CERD) since 1998 and has failed to submit five periodic reports. This document from an Indian Human Rights organisation summarises and highlights key areas of concern in Pakistan.
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    Transitional justice for collaborators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Ensuring ‘transitional justice’ for past human rights abuses is often challenging. The case of collaborators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is particularly difficult. Despite the wealth of commentary surrounding Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, little attention has been paid to the issue of collaborators.
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    Economic growth in Viet Nam is not shared equally by all ethnic minorities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There are substantial differences in living standards among Viet Nam’s 54 officially recognised ethnic groups. Most lowland Vietnamese Kinh, who make up 84 percent of the population, have benefited greatly from economic reforms initiated since the late 1980s. However, most ethnic minority groups have gained less and are being left behind.
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    Brazilian perspectives on human security

    Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2007
    The paper shows that human security is more than a normative framework and must be reformulated into an operational and analytical tool. It begins by looking at the concept of human security, considering its links and practical applications to the problems of human violence.
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    International investment agreements, business and human rights: key issues and opportunities

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008
    This paper responds to the need to identify and understand the linkages between international investment agreements (IIAs) and the debate on business and human rights. It provides a broad-based review of these linkages, focusing on the existing IIAs, and their relationship to business and human rights issues.
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    Losing ground. the human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia.

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This report reveals growing evidence of human rights violations associated with the Indonesian oil palm industry. Drawing on interviews with individuals on the ground and previous research, it explores some of the civil, political, economic, social and cultural impacts of oil palm plantations.
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    Understanding ethnic identification in Peru

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    While prejudice against indigenous Peruvians is an unmistakable reality, it is hard to determine the nature of ethnic identity. There is no clear relationship in Peru between ethnic identity and markers of language or race. There is therefore little mobilisation along ethnic grounds compared to Bolivia, Ecuador and Guatemala – countries with similar histories.

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