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  Stop the traffic!

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This paper discusses the current child trafficking situation in the UK, trafficking trends across different international regions and proposes necessary interventions to prevent future trafficking and to protect and rehabilitate victims of trafficking.The primary cause of child trafficking is the demand, both for cheap labour in growing economies and in the commercial sex industry.
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  Women in war and crisis zones: one key to Africa's wars of underdevelopment

  Development Studies Institute, LSE, 2002

  This paper draws on research in war and post-war situations in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Colombia and Palestine to illustrate how modern wars have a disproportionate impact on women in patterns common to all continents.The paper underlines findings by many international organisations about the key role women could play in peace-building or reconciliation, but concludes that this will not be po
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  Training and skill formation for decent work in the informal sector: case studies from South India

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  Based on case studies in India, this paper seeks to understand the ways in which skills are developed in the informal sector and how the workers are trained, if at all.
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  Simputer: computers for the poor or an idealistic dream?

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article discusses the Simputer, a handheld computing device with a touch-sensitive screen that can carry out many of the services carried out by 'normal' computers. In addition, it can function in several Indian languages, and a single device can be easily shared by a number of users in the same village. It could have many applications and even be used by the illiterate.
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  Labour market insecurities in China

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  China is suffering from mass unemployment. Millions of former lifetime employees have been laid-off since 1993. Before market transition, the Chinese labour regime was characterized by a state labour allocation system in which all formal employees in publicly owned enterprises in urban areas were offered lifetime employment.
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  Smash and grab: conflict, corruption and human rights abuses in the shrimp farming industry

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2003

  This paper focuses on the impacts of the global shrimp farming industry, one which is growing steadily, on local communities.It states that international donors have been promoting this industry as an alternative to wild shrimp trawling, but that the environmental and social impacts of farming have been ignored.
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  Good governance or bad management

  Focus on the Global South, 2002

  This book presents a number of chapters by individual authors which give a damning indictment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) policy and processes.Central to the books argument is that whilst precepts of good governance should imply publicly accountable systems of rights, entitlements, laws, rules, distribution and use of resources and decision making based on universal principles of equali
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  World Disasters Report 2003

  International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2003

  In the light of the ‘war on terror’ and the changing landscape in which humanitarian organisations operate, this report asks what ethical dilemmas and moral trade-offs do humanitarians face in an increasingly politicised environment? It further asks if is aid really reaching those in greatest need? Do we even know where humanitarian needs are greatest?
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  Sexually abused and sexually exploited children and youth in Pakistan: a qualitative assessment of their health needs and available services in selected provinces

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2001

  This paper collects and analyses existing information on Pakistan’s problems with child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation (trafficking, pornography and prostitution).
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  Facing up to the storm: how local communities can cope with disaster: lessons from Orissa and Gujarat

  Christian Aid, 2003

  This disaster management book identifies how people, even in the poorest parts of the developing world, can survive disasters if they are involved in all aspects of managing disasters from response to prevention.

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