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    Economic and social rights in Afghanistan II: August 2007

    United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2007
    The Government of Afghanistan is failing to fulfil the core economic and social rights of the Afghan people, according to this new report by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). The report is the second of its kind by AIHRC and the UNHCR and is based on the 2006 human rights field monitoring activity conducted between January and December 2006.
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    Building democracy in Burma

    United States Institute of Peace, 2007
    Argues that the poor state of the economy, authoritarian control, limited education opportunities in political and social science and onerous restrictions on civil society and public organisations make it harder to establish and maintain democracy in Burma.
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    Primer: human rights and the MDGs - making the link

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2007
    While the policies of aid agencies increasingly emphasise the connection between human rights and development, in practice the two concepts often remain on separate, parallel tracks. This primer provides a conceptual overview of the links between human rights and the MDGs and explores the key questions that practitioners face in this area.
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    Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley (HRC)

    The HRC protects and promotes human rights worldwide by investigating and documenting human rights abuses and training the next generation of human rights researchers, policymakers, and advocates.&
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    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

    The Friederich-Ebert-Stiftung sees its activities in developing countries as a contribution to:
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    Building the new Human Rights Council: outcome and analysis of the institution building year

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2007
    In 2006, the United Nations launched the new Human Rights Council, replacing the former Human Rights Commission. This report describes the outcome of this transition and analyses and evaluates the existing work of the Council. The paper argues that, at present, it is not clear that the new Council represents an improvement on the previous problems encountered with the Commission.
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    General considerations on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples in Asia

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2007
    This report presents a general overview of the situation of the rights of indigenous peoples in Asia. Drawing from specific examples in various Asian countries, it focuses on issues of particular concern in the region including the loss of indigenous land and resources, internal conflict and the special abuses faced by indigenous women.
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    Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)

    PASSIA is an Arab non-profit institution located in Jerusalem/Al-Quds with a financially and legally independent status. It is not affiliated with any government, political party or organization.
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    Anti-child trafficking legislation in Asia: a six country review

    International Labour Organization, 2006
    What are the inadequacies of the legal frameworks addressing the problem of cross- border trafficking? This extensive paper looks at international legal frameworks, and regional conventions. It highlights inadequacies of the legal frameworks in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia as well as the discrepancies between the national laws and international instruments.
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    Institute for Democratic Governance

    As a civil society research, advocacy and capacity building organisation, IDEG is committed to a set of organisational principles and objectives.

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