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    Small-scale food processing sector in Mozambique

    Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2000
    Looks at the propects and institutional structures for improving the small-scale food processing industry in MozambiqueRecommends that:the DNI/MICTUR should create a department dedicated to the development of the small- and medium-sized food processing industry. The department's key staff should be trained in development policies for SFPEs.
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    Tribes, state, and technology adoption in arid land management, Syria

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2001
    Discusses the widely help conception that arid shrub-lands in Syria and elsewhere in West Asia and North Africa are degraded.
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    Rwanda: the search for security and human rights abuses

    Human Rights Watch, 2001
    This article investigates the violence, human rights abuses and security situation in Rwanda.The article finds that:despite unresolved questions about massive killings of civilians in the Congo and in northwestern Rwanda and its continuing poor human rights record, the Rwandan government enjoys substantial international support.
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    Human resources in agricultural and rural development

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2001
    Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development.
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    How stronger patent protection in India might affect the behavior of transnational pharmaceutical industries

    World Bank, 2000
    Paper asks: How will stronger patent rights in developing countries affect transnational corporations' behavior in and toward those countries? How will market structure and consumer welfare be affected by extending patent protection to products that could previously be freely imitated?
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    Gender perspectives on landmines

    United Nations [UN] Department for Disarmament Affairs, 2001
    Paper assesses the five pillars of UN mine action:mine awarenessdeminingvictim assistanceadvocacy for a global banstockpile destructionPaper states that gender perspectives should be included in all activities, including:assessing landmine and monitoring the landmine threattracking landmine injuriesdesigning assistance programmes for victims of la
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    Seeking protection: addressing sexual and domestic violence in Tanzania's refugee camps

    Human Rights Watch, 2000
    Documents UNHCR's and the Tanzanian host government's failure to address violence against women refugees in a timely and effective manner, despite ample evidence that women's lives were in danger in their homes and in the general camp community.Recommendations:UNHCR needs to ensure a more institutionalised response if it is to address consistently and effectively the protection n
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    Are women really the "fairer" sex?: corruption and women in government

    Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
    Tests the hypothesis that women are be more trust-worthy and public-spirited than men, and should therefore be particularly effective in promoting honest government.Consistent with this hypothesis, this paper find that the greater the representation of women in parliament, the lower the level of corruption.
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    Uprooting the rural poor in Rwanda

    Human Rights Watch, 2001
    Reports on the human rights violations as a result of the Rwandan governments implementation of the National Habitat Policy.
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    Democratic Republic of the Congo: reluctant recruits: children and adults forcibly recruited for military service in North Kivu

    Human Rights Watch, 2001
    Documents an intensive campaign of forcible recruitment of adults and children begun by RCD-Goma and its Rwandan allies in the last quarter of 2000. The paper asserts that the major rebel group in eastern Congo continues to recruit children to wage war against the Congolese government.

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