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    id21 viewpoint - Litigating for climate justice

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Litigation (legal action) for justice over climate change is an immense global issue which is likely to increase in the future. The complexities of legal systems are a disadvantage for poor communities, who often suffer the most serious impacts of climate change. Is it worth these people going to court over climate change?
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    Human rights policies and management practices of Fortune Global 500 Firms: results of a survey

    Corporate Accountability, 2006
    Based on a survey of the Fortune Global 500 companies (FG500) undertaken as part of the work of the Special Representative to the Secretary General on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (SRSG), this paper summarises the key features of the human rights policies and management practices of FG500 companies.Findings of the survey include:almost all r
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    Understanding how young refugees cope with prolonged forced migration

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Most Western perspectives on the experience of refugee youth tend to focus on psychological approaches, neglecting the social and cultural aspects of prolonged displacement. A more inclusive approach of direct interaction with the children and adolescents involved is crucial to helping practitioners provide them with better services.
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    Reconceiving the UN human rights regime: challenges confronting the new UN Human Rights Council

    Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2006
    In 2006, the UN Commission on Human Rights, established 60 years earlier, was replaced by a new Human Rights Council. This working paper contends that three recent debates about the new Council have failed to identify or address the more important factors in the Commission’s loss of credibility.
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    Being tough: young Liberians’ coping strategies in refugee camps

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Refugees face many challenges living in camps, but these difficulties vary amongst different groups. Young Liberian refugees in the Buduburam camp in Ghana deal with their problems in specific ways. Studying the social resilience of these groups may help generate strategies for their improvement.
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    Because they have the guns . . . I'm left with nothing: the price of continuing impunity in Côte d’Ivoire

    Human Rights Watch, 2006
    This report describes human rights abuses against civilians by state security forces, militia forces and by the New Forces during the period of November 2005 to March 2006, and serves to illustrate the human cost of the failure to address impunity and lawlessness in Côte d’Ivoire.The report points out that impunity has taken firm root on Ivorian soil.
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    The Human Security Framework and National Human Development Reports: a review of experiences and current debates

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006
    This paper identifies some interesting and useful applications of the Human Security Framework.
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    Community based organisations in southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Community based organisations (CBOs) work for the welfare of local communities. Many are usually resource poor but are expected to achieve a lot. Several CBOs working on human rights and social justice issues emerged over the last 15 years in southern Africa. What are their strengths and weaknesses and their needs?
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    Giving teenagers their rights

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was ratified in 1989 but many young people grow up knowing little of what it is to have the protection and freedoms that are described within its 54 articles. Much remains to be done to guarantee teenagers their rights.
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    Human rights and poverty reduction: realities, controversies and strategies

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    The Overseas Development Institute's (ODI) meeting series on Human Rights and Poverty Reduction took place between January and March 2005. Its purpose was to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and brought together professionals from different disciplines within each of the series' nine meetings, including economists, lawyers, doctors, NGO campaigners, trade unionists and academics.

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