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Microfinance and gender equality: are we getting there?
Microcredit Summit Campaign, 2006Why isn't the microfinance industry doing better at contributing towards gender equality? Some MFIs have not fully integrated gender issues in their practical operations. This tends to be due to pressures to survive as an organisation, the responsibility of women to support their families, their business skills and training, and existing market conditions.DocumentAging in Asia and Oceania: AARP multinational survey of opinion leaders 2006
American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2007Populations in many countries are growing older as life expectancy increases and birth rates decline.DocumentLocking up family values: the detention of immigrant families
Women's Refugee Commission, 2007The recent increase in family detention represents a major shift in the U.S. government’s treatment of families in immigration proceedings. This paper reports the findings of visits to the T. Don Hutto Residential Center and the Berks Family Shelter Care Facility and recommends systemic changes to the U.S. government’s treatment of families in immigration proceedings.DocumentAll costs, no benefits: How TRIPS-plus intellectual property rules in the US-Jordan FTA affect access to medicines
Oxfam, 2007This Oxfam report examines the impact of the TRIPS-plus rules on access to medicines in Jordan. Jordan was the first country to introduce these high levels of intellectual property protection as part of a free trade agreement with the United States (US). The report finds that medicine prices in Jordan have increased by 20 per cent since 2001.DocumentA fair Farm Bill for America
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2007This paper outlines the basics and the history of the US Farm Bill, and examines why the deregulation of agriculture has failed. It also maps out how the Farm Bill affects not just farmers but many different aspect of society including energy, health, conservation, the environment, market concentration, labour and immigration, and hunger.DocumentClose to slavery: guestworker programs in the United States
Southern Poverty Law Center, 2007This paper discusses the exploitation faced by ‘guestworkers’ in the United States. The paper argues that the rights of guestwokers – temporary workers from largely Latin American countries, particularly Mexico - are not adequately protected.Unlike U.S.DocumentThe guessing game. How the U.S. play agriculture trade in 2007
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2007This brief discusses what position the United States is likely to take if WTO trade talks are revived in 2007.DocumentTransnational litigation manual for human rights and environmental cases in United States courts
EarthRights International, 2006This manual outlines legal measures in the United States for holding corporations and others parties accountable for human rights and environmental abuses overseas. The guide is directed toward non-lawyers who want to learn about this type of litigation, and possibly participate in a lawsuit.DocumentConflict diamonds: US jewelery retailers still not doing enough – summary of the US results of Global Witness and Amnesty International survey
Global Witness, 2007This report presents summarises the results of a survey evaluating the regulation of “blood diamonds” in the US diamond jewellery retail sector.DocumentChinese views: breaking the stalemate on the Korean peninsula
United States Institute of Peace, 2007This report looks at the North Korean nuclear crisis from the perspective of China. The report highlights the difficulty for China in balance its desire to extend its regional influence and maintaining good U.S.-China relations.Pages