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  What do Social Movements achieve for the chronically poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Social movements link people and organisations through their collective response to issues that affect participants. Poor people in many countries, lacking social status and economic or political power, often find that collective action is the only way to achieve change.
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  Conditional cash transfers for human development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Conditional cash transfers have emerged as the dominant form of social welfare in Latin America and the Caribbean. Cash is transferred to poor families provided that they use health and educational resources. Despite programme success, it is not clear if this is the most effective way to reduce poverty and boost human development.
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  Risk factors, pathways and outcomes for youth released from juvenile detention centres in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and interviews to investigate the experiences of over 300 young people aged 12 to 17 who had been incarcerated in juvenile detention centres in São Paulo.
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  Slum health: diseases of neglected populations

  BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2007

  This article examines the distinct set of health problems that occur in urban slums. With one billion people currently estimated to live in such communities, this neglected population has become a major reservoir for a wide spectrum of health conditions that are not well recognised by the formal health sector.
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  Unnatural, "Unsuitable", Unemployed! Lesbians and Workplace Discrimination in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Mexico,

  BRIDGE, 2006

  This report analyses discrimination against lesbians in the job market, based on statistics, law and testimonials from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Honduras. It seeks to make explicit the links between discrimination in the workplace and the ability of lesbian women to secure the basic elements of survival - food, housing, education and medical care - for themselves and their families.
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  Knowledge, perceived stigma, and care-seeking experiences for sexually transmitted infections: a qualitative study from the perspective of public clinic attendees in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  BMC Public Health, 2007

  This study examines factors that influence peoples sexually transmitted infection (STI) care-seeking decisions in Brazil, and the education and counselling which they receive during their clinic visit. The paper finds that: care-seeking delays are linked to information gaps regarding STI transmission, detection and treatment, and perceived STI-related and other social stigma.
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  Has there been any social mobility for non-whites in Brazil?

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  The legal grounds for racial stratification have been eliminated in Brazil. However, race remains a very important determinant of stratification. This one-pager examines the social mobility of racial groups in Brazil.The overall conclusion the author presents is that non-whites, as a group, have experienced very little social mobility.
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  Seeing the light: adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change.
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  Budget analysis and policy advocacy: the role of non-governmental public action

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Civil society initiatives to improve budget transparency and influence government spending priorities are being introduced in developing countries. This IDS working paper reports on research carried out on six civil society budget groups around the world. The case studies are on a social movement in India, a research institution in Croatia and NGOs in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Uganda.
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  Educational equity and public policy: comparing results from 16 countries

  UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007

  The right to education has been recognised by the international community for the last half century and has led to increasing interest in the equity of countries’ education systems.

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