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    Myanmar: increasing displacement as fighting resumes in the East: a profile of the internal displacement situation

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2010
    This report documents the human rights violations against the people of Myanmar. It provides information on the political background, causes of displacement, and information by state. It also discusses patterns of displacement, phsical security and freedom of movement, subsistence needs, access to education, and national and international responses.
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    Expanding failure: an assessment of the Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Expansion Project’s compliance with Equator Principles and Lao law

    Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2009
    This paper sheds light on the Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project in central Laos, demonstrating its impacts on vulnerable people. The Project started construction in 2008 and is expected to be completed in 2011. The paper shows that it is a dam and diversion project, which will displace a group of indigenous people from their lands in the reservoir area.
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    Perceptions of ecological migration in inner Mongolia, China: summary of fieldwork and relevance for climate adaptation

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2009
    This report documents local perceptions and experiences of environmental migration in selected settlements in Mongolia and China, and discusses some of the challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation there.
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    Internal displacement in Iraq: the process of working toward durable solutions

    Brookings Institution, 2009
    With increased levels of security in Iraq in 2008-9, displaced persons have begun to make decisions about their future, and the number of displaced Iraqis making settlement decisions is expected to increase. This research seeks to figure out how the government of Iraq can advance the process of achieving durable solutions to displacement.
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    Making migration work for development

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2009
    The report is a summary of six years of investigation into migration policy and practice. It encompasses thematic and regional reviews of emerging migration issues and policies as well as targeted empirical field research in a number of countries in West Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and South-East Europe.
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    Israel's long-term care insurance scheme

    Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
    Concerns about the implications of population ageing and the size of the elderly population with disabilities led Israel to began to implement its Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) Law fully in 1988.
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    The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)

    Te Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is a multidisciplinary research centre on ageing at NUI Galway.
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    Algeria: national reconciliation fails to address needs of IDPs

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2009
    Although Algeria has been affected by large-scale internal displacement caused by the internal conflict that has ravaged the country since the early 1990s, very little information is available on the current situation of the displaced and their numbers.
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    In search of shelter: mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement

    CARE International, 2009
    The impacts of climate change are already causing migration and displacement. Although the exact number of people that will be on the move by mid-century is uncertain, the scope and scale could vastly exceed anything that has occurred before.
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    Work and family: towards new forms of reconciliation with social co-responsibility

    International Labour Organization, 2009
    For most of the 20th century, productive and reproductive work were organised according to rigid gender roles that have become inappropriate in today’s world. As a result, the interplay between work and family – both central to people’s lives – has also changed, radically.

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