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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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  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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  Freedom of expression and the media in Cambodia

  Article 19, 2005

  This study analyses the general status of the media in Cambodia, its ownership and the laws regulating its functioning, with reference to international standards. Despite over 50 years of violent history, the press in Cambodia enjoys a degree of freedom.
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  Regional media in conflict: case studies in local war reporting

  Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 2000

  This book explores the ways in which media promote and reflect conflict.
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  First hand knowledge: voices across the Mekong: community action against trafficking of children and women

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This paper is an account of the stories of children and women, and the communities to which they belong, who explain their engagement in a program designed to help prevent trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. The accounts are drawn from communities in the five participating countries: Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and China.
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  Indigenous and tribal peoples: an ethnic audit of selected poverty reduction strategy papers

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less than others from overall declines in poverty.
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  Some progress but Education for All can do better

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Steady progress has been made since 1998, especially towards universal primary education (UPE) and gender parity among the poorest countries, but the pace is insufficient for the six Education for All (EFA) goals to be achieved by 2015. Increased political will and funding is required if countries are to meet the commitments they set at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000.
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  The impact of the introduction of user fees at a district hospital in Cambodia

  Health Policy and Planning, 2004

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, describes the introduction of user fees at a district referral hospital in Kirivong Operational District in Cambodia, It examines the impact on health care seeking behaviour, the ability to pay and consultation prices at private practitioners.
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  Potentials and limits of community-based service delivery in post-conflict situations

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  In countries emerging from conflict, there is often urgent need to provide health, education, water and sanitation services. In the absence of a strong and effective state, aid agencies increasingly rely on community-based approaches (CBA). However it is necessary to recognise the limits of CBA in the larger context of state building objectives.
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  How and why we work: child workers in the informal economy in Phnom Penh and Battambang

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005

  While it is well-recognised that the "worst forms of child labour" are pervasive throughout Cambodia, the full dimension of urban child labour remains elusive, in part because of the wide range of implicated sectors (both formal and informal), the broad geographic reach and disparities depending on location, the hidden nature of particular forms of labour (domestic labour, illegal drug trafficking

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