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    World population highlights: key findings from PRB’s 2008 world population data sheet

    Population Reference Bureau, 2008
    During the 20th Century, nearly 90 percent of population growth took place in countries classified as less developed countries (LDCs). This remarkable development resulted from an unprecedented decline in death rates in LDCs brought about by the spread of public health measures, health care, and disease prevention.
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    State of neglect: displaced children in the Central African Republic

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    Internally displaced children in Central African Republic (CAR) face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence. Many have been recruited into the armed forces, kidnapped, and abducted to work as porters of stolen property. This document outlines a fact-finding mission which researched and reported on the protection and assistance needs of displaced children in CAR.
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    Sustainable livelihoods: seeds of success?

    Forced Migration Review, 2004
    This issue of Forced Migration Review focuses on sustainable livelihoods in emergency situations. In recent years the nature of emergency assistance has undergone significant shifts. Previously, the humanitarian community tended to focus on emergency relief in the form of food aid and other short term needs of displaced persons, such as water and shelter.
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    Continued protection, sustainable reintegration: Afghan refugees and migrants

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    Why are so many Afghans in Iran as yet unwilling to return? What can be done to facilitate their reintegration, and to protect them while they continue to live in Iran?
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    Afghan transnational networks: looking beyond repatriation

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    What is the situation of Afghan migrants in Pakistan and Iran, and of returnees? What are the alternatives to repatriation?
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    Partnership to Protect: CSOs and the AU : An advocacy toolkit for civilian protection

    African Centre for Humanitarian Action - Africa Humanitarian Action, 2008
    Around the world, most people agree that governments must be the ones responsible for making sure that their people are protected. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. In this case, it is the responsibility of both intergovernmental organisations, like the AU, and international organisations, such as CSOs, to help protect civilians.
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    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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    Future floods of refugees: a comment on climate change, conflict and forced migration

    Norwegian Refugee Council, 2008
    With the certainty of global warming, the term ‘climate refugees’ is gaining popularity in public discourse. The term climate refugees implies a mono-causality that one rarely finds in human reality. No one factor, event or process, inevitably results in forced migration or conflict. It is very likely that climate change impacts will contribute to an increase in forced migration.
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    Toolkit to combat trafficking in persons: global programme against trafficking in human beings

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008
    With the tide of human trafficking rising rather than falling, the need for effective prevention policies is unquestionable. This toolkit updates and expands upon the UNODC toolkit of the same name published in 2006.
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    'You are not going to amuse yourself', barriers to achieving wellbeing through international migration: the case of Peruvian immigrants in London and Madrid

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
    International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migration by inductively analysing perceived obstacles or blocks to achieving wellbeing amongst a sample of 99 Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid.

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