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    Undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Israel

    EuroMesco, 2009
    Over the last three years, Israel’s vast experience in absorbing immigrants has been challenged by a new migration phenomenon. Its growing dimension presents several problems to the State’s integrative policies, which have traditionally had the Jewish context as their ideological framework of reference.
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    Economic growth, employment and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

    Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
    Despite steady growth in most Arab Middle East and North Africa countries, the region has achieved very modest gains in reducing poverty or increasing employment. In fact, poverty and unemployment, especially among the young, are widespread. This paper provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region.
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    Asylum and migration in the Mashrek

    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2008
    Refugees and migrants in the Mashrek countries (defined as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria for the purposes of this report) are at risk of unlawful deportation, ill treatment and exploitation.
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    Implacable adversaries: Arab governments and the internet

    The Initiative for an Open Arab Internet, 2007
    Arab governments have maintained a tradition of restricting freedom of expression using national security and religious morals as grounds for censorship, and the ‘war on terror’ has given them an excuse to further extend this. When it comes to the internet, restriction and censorship has taken the form of blocking websites and arresting bloggers.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 21: Gender and Governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Governance processes - with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness - should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality.
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    Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

    Routledge, 2008
    Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16 per cent on average, there are some striking examples: 49 per cent of Rwanda's assembly is female, Argentina's stands at 35 per cent, and Liberia and Chile's new women presidents have raised expectations of an upward trend in women's representation, from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance.
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    On the Way to Improved Legal Reality. Strategies and Instruments Used to Tackle Discrimination Against Women in the Arab World

    Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, Germany, 2008
    What interventions are needed to improve the legal position of women, especially in Muslim societies, so that women's rights exist not only on paper but are realised in practice?
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    Economic liberalisation, social welfare and Islam in the Middle East

    School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2009
    Over the past twenty years, countries in the Middle East have pursued economic reforms in an attempt to accelerate growth. To a great extent, they have implemented structural adjustment policies designed by the World Bank. But what have been the effects of these reforms on social welfare provisioning for poor people?
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    The demographic profile of the Arab countries: ageing of rural populations

    Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007
    This report highlights the course of fertility and mortality transitions, and examines trends in rural and urban populations in the 22 countries of the Arab region for the period 1980-2050.
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    Water as a human right for the Middle East and North Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    In 1992, a United Nations declaration proclaimed water as a human right. However, the water profession and the vast majority of governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have not paid much attention.

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