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    India: Orissa, Kashipur: Utkal bauxite & alumina project: human rights and environmental impacts

    Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2007
    This report reviews environmental and social aspects of plans by Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd to mine bauxite and refine alumina. The project is a joint venture between Canada’s Alcan and Hindalco.
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    Human rights and business learning tool

    United Nations System Staff College, 2007
    This learning tool has been prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact Office and the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC).
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    Child abuse in cyberspace: a growing problem

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Children around the globe are using new information and communications technologies - from the Internet to mobile phones, webcams, instant messaging, chat rooms and so on. Although these technologies are entertaining and educational, they can also widen opportunities for child abuse. A framework to protect children in ‘cyberspace’ is needed.
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    Social movements aid land reform in the Philippines

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Since the introduction of a new agrarian reform law in the Philippines in 1998, nearly half of the country’s agricultural land has been redistributed to peasant households. State law has effectively become an instrument of social change, but problems in redistributing land held by elites have led some to argue instead for market-assisted land reform.
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    “Keep your head down”: unprotected migrants in South Africa

    Human Rights Watch, 2007
    This report documents the human rights abuses encountered by migrant workers in South Africa.
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    Indigenous peoples safeguards

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2007
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has the responsibility of safeguarding Indigenous Peoples (IP) and their ways of living. This report presents the findings of a special evaluation study of the bank's 1998 policy on IP. It provides an overview of the scale and nature of safeguards in the bank's operation and reviews trends.
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    Hidden apartheid: caste discrimination against India’s “untouchables”

    Human Rights Watch, 2007
    This report documents India’s systematic failure to respect, protect, and ensure Dalits’ fundamental human rights.
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    Group-based inequalities and political exclusion cause conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Severe inequalities between culturally defined groups can make multi-ethnic countries more prone to civil conflict. These group-based inequalities may be more likely to lead to conflict if other conditions are present. The political conditions within countries, for example, may go a long way to explaining why civil conflict takes place.
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    Building women into peace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Peace-building has become a major industry since the 1990s. The international community has shifted its focus from ceasefires to the active creation of democratic societies. But international peace-building efforts regularly ignore the needs of women, despite the use of ‘women’s rights’ as justification for intervention.
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    Transnational litigation manual for human rights and environmental cases in United States courts

    EarthRights International, 2006
    This manual outlines legal measures in the United States for holding corporations and others parties accountable for human rights and environmental abuses overseas. The guide is directed toward non-lawyers who want to learn about this type of litigation, and possibly participate in a lawsuit.

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