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    Pakistan: the land of religious apartheid and jackboot justice

    Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007
    Pakistan has refused to cooperate with the International Convention Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Committee (CERD) since 1998 and has failed to submit five periodic reports. This document from an Indian Human Rights organisation summarises and highlights key areas of concern in Pakistan.
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    Humanitarian agenda 2015 - the state of the humanitarian enterprise

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and grapple with the fundamental issue of impartiality.
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    Whose public action?: analysing inter-sectoral collaboration for service delivery: identification of programmes for study in Pakistan: initial notes and methodology

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2007
    This paper attempts to identify and categorise the types of relations that exist between state and non-state providers in Pakistan within three service sectors. The paper draws upon documentary evidence as well as extensive interviews with prominent actors in the education, health and water and sanitation sectors.
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    The effectiveness of foreign military assets in natural disaster response

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2008
    This study examines the advantages, limitations and implications of involving foreign military assets (personnel, equipment and expertise) in the relief operations that follow major natural disasters. It also provides an overview of recent developments in the use of such assets in response to major natural disasters, based on primary and secondary data.
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    Poverty, blindness and access to treatment in Pakistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Links between poverty and blindness are well documented.  It is known that blindness rates are three to four times higher in low income countries than in industrialised ones.  Furthermore, over 75 percent of blindness cases worldwide are preventable or treatable. What can the Pakistan national blindness and visual impairment survey teach us about the connection between poverty and blindness?
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    Security, the War on Terror, and ODA

    North-South Institute, 2007
    Is aid now used as a tool to meet geo-political ends? Has the focus shifted away from poverty-alleviation to ‘ensuring’ that, in respect of the War on Terror (WOT), recipient governments do not become unstable and a breeding ground for ‘terrorists’?
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    Who benefits from GM crops?

    Friends of the Earth International, 2008
    This paper provides a fact-based assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) crops around the world.
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    Contesting ideologies and struggle for authority: state-madrasa engagement in Pakistan

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2007
    The Pakistani state’s agenda to reform madrasas, and through that the conservative interpretation of Islam within Pakistan, goes back to the 1960s. From the start it has pursued a similar objective: to introduce modern subjects to the madrasa curriculum so that the students integrate into the mainstream economy and society.
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    Managing change in local governance

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Decentralisation reforms are now perceived as essential elements of the devolution of responsibility to elected local governments in order to achieve good governance and ensure the public sector responds to the needs of both urban and rural people. How can local governments become responsive, efficient and pro-poor deliverers of services?
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    Civil society engagement in education budgets: a report documenting Commonwealth Education Fund experience

    Commonwealth Education Fund, 2008
    This report documents Commonwealth Education Fund experience, illustrating how civil society can engage in the budget process through budget analysis; tracking disbursement flows through the education system; monitoring expenditure; and lobbying to influence budget allocations to the education sector.

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