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Reproductive health for displaced people: investing in the future
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2004Since the mid-1990s, reproductive health services for refugees and displaced people have greatly improved and expanded. This edition of the journal Forced Migration Review is devoted to the issues of sexual and reproductive healthcare in conflict and post-conflict situations.DocumentBangladesh: Extremist Islamist Consolidation
Institute for Conflict Management, India, 2003The 2001 general elections in Bangladesh have revealed the depth and sophistication of organisation of extremist Islamist organisations. Prominent and senior members of fundamentalist organisations are now members of the ruling coalition, signalling the possible beginning of a new era of non-secular government in Bangladesh.DocumentPoor performers in Sub-Saharan Africa: exclusion or integration?
Institute for Security Studies, 2004Political events since 9/11 have brought renewed focus onto ‘poor performing’ countries, owing to the real or perceived threat that some of these countries are directly responsible for supporting/harbouring/arming terrorist networks.DocumentBroken vows: exposing the loupe holes in the diamond industry’s efforts to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds
Global Witness, 2004This paper evaluates how well the US diamond industry is complying with self-regulation established to eliminate the trade in conflict diamonds, known as the ‘Kimberley Process’.The paper finds compliance with the Kimberley Process among companies surveyed ‘abysmal’:only five of the thirty retailers sent information on their policies on conflict diamonds when requestedthere were lowDocumentA Diamonds Curse: Civil War and a Lootable Resource.
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004While territory, oil, and water are the resources mentioned most frequently as likely to promote interstate conflict, diamonds have emerged as a prominent factor in explanations of civil war.DocumentA conflict of interests: the uncertain future of Burma's forests
Global Witness, 2004Burma is resource rich, and principal among these resources is timber.DocumentOvercoming barriers to reproductive health care in post-conflict Afghanistan: a participatory study
Marie Stopes International, 2004Please note: the full-text of this document is no longer available. This URL link now goes to a summary.DocumentSocio-economic dominance of ethnic and racial groups: the African experience
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004This paper argues that socio-economic dominance based on ethnic and race factors is a long standing phenomena in Africa, which was instigated by colonial rule and perpetuated by elite interests in capital accumulation and political power during the post-colonial era.DocumentEmergency obstetric care: critical need among populations affected by conflict
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2004This report, produced by the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (RHRC Consortium), documents the availability of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services in nine countries affected by conflict. Findings showed that at the health facility level, structures, equipment, supplies and medicines were generally insufficient, and there was a lack of qualified staff.