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  Seeking opportunities: migration as an income diversification strategy of households in Kakamega District in Kenya

  GIGA Deutsches Orient-Institut / GIGA German Institute for Middle East Studies, 2007

  This paper investigates patterns, determinants and the impact of internal migration on households based on data from a densely populated rural area in Kakamega district in Western Kenya. It finds that the motivation behind migration is largely economic in kind. Accordingly, remittances account for a substantial share of household incomes.
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  “You are not going there to amuse yourself”: barriers to achieving wellbeing through international migration: the case of Peruvian migrants in London and Madrid

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2007

  International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU has grown steadily in recent years. But how do these migrants see their situation and what kind of obstacles do they face? This paper uses a wellbeing analysis to explore perceived obstacles to achieving wellbeing amongst a sample of 99 Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid.
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  The Americas social security report 2007

  Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social / Inter-American Conference on Social Security, Mexico, 2006

  Processes associated with globalisation have lead to a range of new challenges relating to social protection throughout the Americas.
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  Commitment to Development Index 2007

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  Since 2003, the Center for Global Development has published the Commitment to Development Index (CDI), an annual ranking list of 21 donor countries to assess the coherence of their development policies. In particular, the CDI assesses how much rich countries help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security.
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  Access to post primary education for victims of forced displacement in Africa

  African Union, 2007

  This concept paper explains that the need for an African Union policy on access to post primary education for victims of forced displacement in Africa is based on a situation analysis of forced displacement in Africa and the review of access that this group of people has to education in general and post primary education in particular.
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  Sudan post-conflict environmental assessment

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2007

  Despite a peace agreement with the south and a fast-growing economy, Sudan faces critical environmental issues including land degradation, deforestation and the impacts of climate change, that threaten the Sudanese people’s prospects for long-term peace, food security and sustainable development.
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  Civilians in the way of conflict: displaced people in Sri Lanka

  Norwegian Refugee Council, 2007

  Since mid-2006, a dramatic escalation in the civil war in Sri Lanka between government  forces and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has resulted in over 4,000  deaths and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
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  The long road home: opportunities and obstacles to the reintegration of IDPs and refugees returning to southern Sudan and the Three Areas. Report of Phase I

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007

  This document presents in-depth study on the reintegration of internally displaced people (IDPs) returning to southern Sudan and the Three Areas in the wake of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
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  Anti Trafficking Centre (ATC)

  The "Anti Trafficking Center" (ATC) is a citizens’ association with a mission of promoting universal human rights in Serbia and Montenegro and the region.
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  Stolen smiles: the physical and psychological health consequences of women and adolescents trafficked in Europe.

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2007

  Trafficking is a severe form of violence against women and a serious violation of human rights. Women and adolescents who are trafficked often suffer serious abuse, exploitation and degradation. The damage to their health and well-being is often profound and enduring.

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