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  A world fit for children

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This UNICEF report is the official outcome document approved at the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children on 10 May 2002. The paper reviews progress made and lessons learned since the World Summit for Children in 1991 and calls on society to join together to build a better world for children .
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  Food and education in the reconstruction of Afghanistan

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  Report of consultation workshop, 17-20 February 2002, Islamabad, Pakistan. Includes review of experience with previous food-assisted education in Afghanisatan
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  Global Environment Outlook 3 (GEO 3)

  Global Environment Outlook Report and Project, UNEP, 2002

  This high profile and detailed UNEP report is aimed at fulfilling the reporting requirement of Agenda 21.
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  Treasure or Trouble? Mining in developing countries

  World Bank Group Mining [World Bank, International Finance Corporation], 2002

  This policy paper for the world bank addresses the question of whether countries consider their mineral wealth an asset, to be used to stimulate or enhance their economic growth potential, or are there reasons to steer an economy away from the development of the mineral sector?Reviewing the cases of 51 “mining countries” in the developing world, three conclusions can be drawn:First, in
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  Extractive Sectors and the Poor

  Oxfam, 2001

  This paper examines how states that rely on oil and mineral exports address the concerns of the poor. Its central finding is that oil and mineral dependence are strongly associated with unusually bad conditions for the poor.
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  Women facing war

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 2001

  Thousands of women the world over face the traumatic experiences of finding themselves caught up in situations of war and conflict either as innocent civilians or as armed combatants. However, women also show resourcefulness and resilience in the face of loss and destruction.This study was commissioned to assess the ways in which women are affected by armed conflict.
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  State-of-the-art review on environment, security and development co-operation

  Environment and Security, 2002

  This report aims to provide an overview of the large body of research and policy initiatives undertaken throughout the 1990s to link environmental change, conflict and security.
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  Armed conflict as a public health problem

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  Although conflict obviously causes deaths and injuries on the battlefield, serious health implications also result from factors such as population displacement, the breakdown of health and social services, and the heightened risk of disease transmission.This paper reviews the limited knowledge on the health consequences of conflict, suggests ways to improve measurement, and discuss the potenti
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  Children of war: the real casualties of the Afghan conflict

  British Medical Journal, 2002

  This article explores the origin of the current Afghan crisis and describes the impact of a quarter of a century of incessant conflict on Afghan children.The author concludes that: the rise of the Taliban and the genesis of the current Afghan conflict was in no small measure due to global apathy to the plight of Afghanistanthe women and children of Afghanistan, both among refugees a
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  Violent conflict, poverty and chronic poverty

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002

  An overview of the literatures on chronic poverty and conflict, mapping out current policy debates and identify areas for future research.Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, over four million people have been killed in internal and regionalised forms of conflict. It is estimated that one third of the world's population is exposed to armed conflict.

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