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    Improving environmental management of extractives through Environmental Impact Assessments

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    How have Latin American countries been using Environmental Impact Assessments in order to build more sustainable extractive industries? A focus on Peru provides some interesting lessons.
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    Latin American advances in incorporating a gender approach in National Court Rulings

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    How is adopting a gender approach enabling National Courts in Colombia and Mexico to drive forward important changes in legislation and practice to tackle root causes of sexual discrimination and inequality?
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    Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Peru’s ProJoven programme has successfully supported younger and more economically disadvantaged generations to gain the necessary qualifications to secure better quality jobs.
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    Judicial reviews: an innovative mechanism to enforce human rights in Latin America | ELLA

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Through ground-breaking rulings, judges in Latin America are driving social change by ordering governments to restore and enforce human rights.
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    Labour market information programmes

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    How can Labour Market Information Programmes improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of labour markets?
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    Integral redress: the case of Oaxaca, Mexico

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    What can victims of human rights violations hope to achieve by demanding the safeguarding of their rights from a government responsible for past abuses and crimes? This Brief presents the experience of victims of arbitrary imprisonment, torture and physical abuse during the repression of a social movement in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006.
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    Capitalising on public transport: reducing GHG emissions in Latin American cities

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Energy efficient modes of transport - like Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems, bicycles and electric taxis - are providing an effective means for reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions in Latin American cities. The transport sector is one of the largest contributors to global GHG emissions, both worldwide and in the Latin America region.
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    Urban disaster risk management in Latin American cities

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Complex interactions between urban population dynamics, social processes and a wide variety of natural hazards are increasing the vulnerability of Latin American cities to disaster risk. So how are cities in the region aiming to strengthen disaster risk management?
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    Violent women and violence against women

    2012
    The report focuses on El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The exploratory study is based on a series of interviews with both active and former female gang members in the three countries between 2008 and 2011.
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    Global AgeWatch Index

    HelpAge International, 2013
    The Global AgeWatch Index ranks countries by how well their ageing populations are faring. It brings together a unique set of internationally comparable data based on older people's income status, health status, education and employment, and enabling environment. The index is a tool to measure progress and aims to improve the impact of policy and practice on ageing populations.

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