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  Poverty, isolation and ill-treatment: juvenile justice in Burundi

  Amnesty International, 2002

  This report includes the findings of an Amnesty International visit to 11 prisons in Burundi to research the plight of child detainees in the country.
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  Chasing shadows: re-imagining finance for development

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  Starting from the premise that finance is not about money, but about the relationships among people, states, markets and natural environment, this report provides three key-features so that finance can become a “real” tool for development.The paper warns that:in order to achieve the objectives of global security and meeting basic human development needs, the imbalance between free marke
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  Community based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  In response to the many highly damaging fires that have occurred in Indonesia, destroying large tracts of forest and causing high levels of damaging carbon emissions, community based management is often recommended as the answer to fire control.Traditional knowledge of fire and its management can be effective in managing both forests and fires, but, this paper argues, very little evaluation of
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  Starving Iraq: one humanitarian disaster we can stop

  Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, 1999

  According to this paper, sanctions in Iraq have caused a dramatic crisis in the economy and have reversed all progress made in the country before sanctions were first implemented.
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  Financial sanctions: a better way to target rogue regimes

  C.D. Howe Institute, Canada, 2000

  The evidence and opinion that UN sanctions have caused immense suffering for innocent civilians whilst having little impact on political leaders of rouge regimes is mounting. In this context, the author assesses the claim, made by some in support of sanctions, that the imposition of financial sanctions would be a less blunt and more leadership targeted form of pressure.
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  When intent makes all the difference in the world: economic sanctions on Iraq and the accusation of genocide

  Yale University Library, 2002

  The U.N. Security Council responded to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait with a comprehensive regime of sanctions. This Article assesses the claim that the highly planned policy contains elements of genocide and critically examines the international legal definition of genocide and its central requirement of specific intent.
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  The impact of economic sanctions on health and well-being

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  This paper examines the impact of sanctions against Cuba, Haiti and Iraq and specifically focuses on health and health services. It reviews current impact measurement attempts, identifies regular weaknesses in the choice of indicators and the measurement methodology.Current measures of the impact of sanctions on health are too limited.
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  The adverse consequences of economic sanctions on the enjoyment of human rights

  Global Policy Forum, 2000

  This working paper aims to provide a framework for incorporating the human rights and humanitarian law dimension of sanctions in the international dialogue.The paper first provides a brief framework for the discussion of sanctions.
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  Iraq sanctions: humanitarian implications and options for the future

  Global Policy Forum, 2002

  The United Nations Security Council has maintained comprehensive economic sanctions on Iraq since August 6, 1990.
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  Corruption: definitions and concepts

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2000

  The intention of this paper is to classify the various forms of corruption in order to operationalise the concept for analytical and practical purposes. The paper outlines different forms of corruption, and defines it as a particular state-society relationship, making a distinction between political corruption and bureaucratic corruption.

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