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    Displacement and dispossession through land grabbing in Mozambique: the limits of international and national legal instruments — Refugee Studies Centre

    Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2014
    The scale and speed of coordinated land grabs over the past five years has created a new avenue through which people are being displaced and dispossessed of their lands.  This paper looks at what limits international and national law in addressing displacement and dispossession due to land grabs in Mozambique.
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    Impact of land certification on sustainable land resource management in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

    Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2014
    In Ethiopia, 85% of the population is directly supported by the agricultural economy.  However, the productivity of that economy is being seriously eroded by unsustainable land management practices both in areas of food crops and in grazing lands (Berry, 2003).
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    Towards a conceptual framework for improved monitoring and evaluation of SEA outcomes: a discussion note

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This paper tries to answer the question how can standard Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) process be modified to incorporate robust long term monitoring frameworks which facilitate outcome mapping and impact assessment.
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    Land and conflict in Sierra Leone: a rapid desk-based study

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    This paper is a desk-based study of land rights and conflict in Sierra Leone.  It reviews post-2002 academic and grey literature. It addresses land ownership and rights within Sierra Leone, as well as exploring the concept of land ownership as a source or driver of conflict. It also reviews literature on the current land tenure system, and government stated policies.
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    Balancing competing obligations: the Rome Statute and AU decisions

    Institute for Security Studies, 2011
    This paper underlines the claimed conflict between African states’ binding obligations imposed by the Rome Statute and their binding obligations imposed by the decisions of the African Union (AU).
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    The International Criminal Court's cases in Kenya: origin and impact

    Institute for Security Studies, 2012
    On 23 January 2012, the fate of the six Kenyans accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of committing crimes against humanity was made known: the confirmation of the charges against four of the six suspects. This paper traces the origins of the ICC process in Kenya and how has the ICC process impacted on Kenyan juridical system.
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    Internal developments in Myanmar: the road ahead

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    This is a speech transcription where the Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to India, H E Amb. U Zin Yaw, discusses the internal developments in Myanmar.
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    Myanmar: pangs of democratic transition

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    Burma or Myanmar, as it was renamed in 1989, is undergoing a transition.  In 2003, the then Prime Minister of Myanmar, Khin Nyunt designed a seven point road map for Myanmar, which included a referendum, a new constitution and elections for the country (Holliday, 2008).
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    Enforcement of environmental crime laws: A framework training manual for law enforcement agencies

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    This manual is intended for national trainers on environmental crime in Eastern and Southern Africa. It seeks to enable such trainers to equip police officers and other actors involved in fighting environmental crimes with knowledge and understanding of the nature of environmental crimes, environmental inspection and investigation, and prosecution of environmental crimes.
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    Nature and Extent of Environmental Crime in Kenya

    Institute for Security Studies, 2009
    An environmental crime can be defined as a grave act against the environment that results in the infringement of the right of citizens to a clean and healthy environment. For such an act to constitute a crime, it must contravene laid-down legislation in the various sectors of the environment, such as forestry, water and wildlife.

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