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  Rethinking immigration and integration: a new centre-left agenda

  Policy Network, 2007

  This book argues for renewed debate among the European centre-left about the issues surrounding immigration and integration, including multiculturalism, citizenship, identity and the cause of rising populism. It challenges traditional stances on immigration and integration by acknowledging past mistakes and promoting a new approach.
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  Undocumented migrants have rights: an overview of the international human rights framework

  Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, 2007

  Why shouldn't we refer to undocumented migrants as “illegal” migrants? This guide gives an overview of the human rights which apply to undocumented migrants in international human rights law.
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  ‘It is our land’: human rights and land tenure reform in Namaqualand, South Africa

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2007

  Secure access to resources is now recognised in human rights discourse as a universal condition of human well-being. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical and empirical understanding of land tenure as a human rights issue, by analysing recent land tenure policy in South Africa.
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  Palestinian refugees need a stable legal status in Lebanon

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Between 200,000 and 400,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon: many of them since 1948.  Despite the duration of their residency in Lebanon, they are still classed as ‘foreigners’. Consequently they have almost no civil rights and are subject to marginalisation, exclusion, violence and continual displacement.
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  False starts: the exclusion of Romani children from primary education in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Amnesty International, 2006

  The low school attendance rates and poor achievement levels of Romani children in the former Yugoslavia are often explained through the use of negative stereotypes about the Roma’s "way of life" or attitude towards education.
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  Making children's rights work in North Africa: country profiles on Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia

  International Bureau for Children’s Rights, 2007

  This report analyses progress in implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child in five countries of North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.
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  Dimensions of discrimination in India: a shadow report to 15th to 19th periodic reports (CERD/C/IND/19) of India to UN CERD Committee

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2007

  This paper documents the monitoring of India’s compliance with its obligations as a State party to various international human rights treaties.
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  China: minority exclusion, marginalization and rising tensions

  Minority Rights Group International, 2007

  This report critically examines Hu Jintao’s ‘harmonious society’ in China. In addition to journalists and Human Rights activists, the report is aimed at those in international governments and businesses who are seeking to build trade links with China. It exposes China’s development strategy and the exact price that ethnic minority communities continue to pay.
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  The right to food in practice: implementation at the national level

  FAO Right to Food, 2006

  Adequate food is a human right. This is something that has been formally recognised by the majority of states, but very little has been done to put this recognition into practice. This paper gives practical guidance on how to implement the right to food at the national level.
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  Off the map: how HIV/AIDS programming is failing same-sex practising people in Africa

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2007

  This report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) explores the ways in which governments, international donors and NGOs (non-governmental organisations) are denying basic human rights protection to same-sex practicing Africans.

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