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International right to know:empowering communities through corporate transparency
Friends of the Earth, 2003This campaign document begins by describing the Bhopal disaster and uses it as an example of US companies failing to disclose information, in their operations abroad, that affect the health of workers, neighbours and other citizens. The International Right to Know coalition believes campaigns to address the gap in information about U.S.DocumentThe sound of silence: difficulties in communicating on HIV/AIDS in schools
ActionAid International, 2003One of the key responses to the AIDS crisis has been the provision of school–based HIV/AIDS education. However, this work has often been led by those specialising in HIV and has not sufficiently drawn upon sound pedagogic practice.DocumentGlobal Health Forum II: intellectual property rights and global health: challenges for access and R&D
Institute for Global Health, 2000The impact of stronger intellectual property (IP) rights regimes on public health has become the subject of considerable concern within international development circles. Views have frequently been divided between those who see strong IP regimes as likely to restrict access to medicines, and those who see patent protection as necessary to encourage development of new drugs and treatments.DocumentGlobal Health Forum I: creating global markets for neglected drugs and vaccines: a challenge for public-private partnership
Institute for Global Health, 2000Efforts to put the health gap between rich and poor countries at the top of the development political agenda have been renewed in recent years.DocumentTunnel vision: women, mining and communities
Oxfam, 2002Provides practical examples of situations where women and children have consistently suffered disproportionately from the negative impacts of mining projects due to the policies and behaviour of the companies involved.The following list represents a consolidation of grievances expressed by women during the research:companies only entering into negotiations with men, making women neitherDocumentTunnel vision: women, mining and communities
Oxfam, 2002Over the past few decades, the pressure on developing countries to deregulate markets and privatise industries has made it easier for transnational corporations to have a far greater presence amongst some of the world's most vulnerable communities.DocumentAccountability to Women in Development Spending - Experiments in Service-delivery Audits at the Local Level
BRIDGE, 2002What matters to consumers of public services is local-level accountability. Local monitoring and auditing is the only way to ensure commitments on paper at the local and national level - particularly in areas of concern to women - are translated into practice.DocumentFrom age old watermills to modern energy and information technologies
IT Power India, 2001How can improvements be made to the way watermiller communities harness water resources?DocumentDietary diversity as a food security indicator
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002Looks at whether dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, is a good measure of household food access.It draws on data from ten countries: Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, and the Philippines.