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    Media mapping: Bayelsa & Rivers states for NRSP

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2012
    This study is part of the establishment work of Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP) which is being implemented by the British Council and its partners. The programme is aimed at supporting Nigerian stakeholders in managing conflict non-violently and reducing the negative impacts of conflict and violence on the most vulnerable populations.
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    Conflict resolution in Cambodia

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2011
    Following the fall of Khmer Rouge regime in January 1979, Cambodia’s civil conflict had not been ended.
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    ‘Pink transportation’ in Mexico City: reclaiming urban space through collective action against gender-based violence

    Gender and Development, 2013
    Women-only transportation has become a popular option for urban women around the world who are tired of being groped and harassed in buses, subways and taxis. The separation of men and women in public transit is controversial among feminists, since it does not address or solve the fundamental issue of gender inequality which causes violence and harassment.
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    Sexual violence and justice in postconflict Peru

    United States Institute of Peace, 2012
    Impunity with regard to sexual violence is grounded in gendered normative frameworks, which directly result in difficulties in gathering evidence and prosecuting rape as a crime, in most of the world, in times of war and peace. Peru is a relatively strong democratic state with a relatively well-functioning judiciary and legal guarantees that should protect women’s rights.
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    Violating rights and threatening lives: the Camisea Gas Project and indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation

    Forest Peoples Programme, 2014
    This report highlights the existing impacts of the Camisea gas project in the south-east Peruvian Amazon on indigenous peoples living in ‘voluntary isolation’ (‘isolated peoples’) in the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti and Others’ Reserve.
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    Social and economic impacts of Tuungane: final report on the effects of a community-driven reconstruction programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    Community Driven Development/ Reconstruction programs are a major tool for supporting local level development as well as addressing needs in post-conflict environments. By 2004, such projects accounted for $ 7 billion in the World Bank’s portfolio alone (Mansuri and Rao 2004). The evidence for this approach, however, remains weak.
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    Peru’s deadly environment: the rise in killings of environmental and land defenders

    Global Witness, 2014
    The world’s attention was be on Peru December 2014, as governments from 195 countries convened in the capital Lima for the UN Climate Conference. As delegates negotiated a global deal aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, a parallel human rights crisis is still unfolding in Peru and around the world.
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    What is legal? Formalising artisanal and small-scale mining in Colombia

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014
    Colombia’s mining sector is characterised by widespread informality. A recent census revealed that 72 per cent of all mining operations in Colombia are classed as ‘artisanal and small-scale mining’ (ASM), and 63 per cent are ‘informal’, lacking a legal mining concession or title. Large-scale mining (LSM) comprises only one per cent of operations.
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    Americas: transforming pain into hope: human rights defenders in the Americas

    Amnesty International, 2012
    Human rights defenders play a fundamental role in helping to create a world where the promise of human rights becomes a reality for all.
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    Land governance in Brazil: a geo-historical review

    International Land Coalition, 2012
    This paper examines the paradoxes of land governance in Brazil by putting them in their historical context, highlighting in particular the continuing subordination of peasant farmers’ interests to those of large landholders.

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