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    Partnership or power play? How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries

    Oxfam, 2008
    The European Union (EU) is negotiating new trade partnerships (EPAs) with African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. However, this paper deems that the EU is choosing power politics over partnership. Therefore, it draws attention to aspects of EPAs that put future economic development at risk.
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    Regional dimensions of the ageing situation

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008
    This publication contributes to the series of events, conferences and publications related to the first review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing. It highlights priorities, as well as
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    Age related policies: a global review on age discrimination legislation

    International Federation on Ageing, 2008
    Discrimination on grounds of age tends to invoke less public revulsion than acts of racial or gender discrimination, as it is considered less likely to be based on malicious intent. While this assertion about intent may be true in certain cases, the effects of discrimination upon the quality of lives of older people are nonetheless significant.
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    Freedom of association in the Euro-Mediterranean region

    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2007
    Since the September 2001 attacks, many states in the Mediterranean region have been implementing repressive strategies aimed at restricting freedom of association, of assembly and of expression. Human rights violations and denials of justice are common practice along with multiple types of harassment, intimidation, abductions, and violence towards all demonstrations of protest and dissidence.
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    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network

    The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network consists of more than 80 human rights organisations, institutions and individuals based in 30 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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    German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

    The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) is Germany’s national foreign policy network.
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    Social exclusion: comparative analysis of Europe and Middle East Youth

    Brookings Institution, 2007
    The paper presents a comparison of youth exclusion in Europe and the Middle East. It finds that the huge differences between these regions do not obscure some similarities and the value of learning from the experience of others and perhaps adapting practices to new contexts. There are several important similarities and differences which make the comparison worthwhile:
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    Irregular migration from West Africa to the Maghreb and the European Union: an overview of recent trends

    International Organization for Migration, 2008
    The migrants themselves are commonly depicted as victims recruited by merciless and unscrupulous traffickers and smugglers. This paper highlights how due to this perceived image policy solutions usually involve fighting illegal immigration through intensifying border controls and cracking down trafficking and smuggling-related crime.
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    Clashes and dialogues of civilizations revisited: the case of contemporary East Asia and Europe

    Asia Europe Journal, 2007
    This article inquires whether genuine intercultural dialogue is feasible between Europe and East Asia, and if so, in which subject areas this could be done productively. It also examines the underlying value patterns which are grounded in religious traditions on both sides and retraces the consequences which Communist rule had on religious practice and ethnic identities of affected societies.
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    Reforming retirement-income systems: lessons from the recent experiences of OECD countries

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Reforming pensions looms large over the policy agenda of OECD countries. This is hardly surprising since public spending on pensions accounted on average for 7 per cent of OECD GDP in 2005; and pension spending is set to increase significantly over the coming decades in response to population ageing.

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