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  Human rights and dignity of Dalit women: report of the conference in the Hague, 20-25 November 2006

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006

  This report summarises the proceedings and the outcomes the 1st Conference on the Rights of Dalit Women held in The Hague, Netherlands.
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  Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report documents alleged exploitation of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates.
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  Dementia in the Asia Pacific region: the epidemic is here

  Access Economics, 2006

  The dementias are a group of diseases characterised by loss of short-term memory, other thinking (cognitive) abilities and daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the commonest types of dementia.
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  Combined strategies needed for tackling armed violence and poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Loss of lives, unemployment and large-scale displacement as a result of armed violence are increasing. The link between armed violence and poverty is clear.  But, how can poverty reduction and armed conflict reduction programmes be integrated?
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  Heart patients are not getting the right treatment

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Every year 32 million people have a heart attack or stroke. At least half of these occur in people known to have cardiovascular disease who have already suffered an attack or stroke. Using the right drugs could prevent as many as three-quarters of these experiencing repeat attacks.
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  Company Codes of Conduct and Workers Rights: Report of an Education and Consultation Programme with Garment Workers in Asia

  2002

  Women Working Worldwide carried out an education and consultation programme with women workers in Asia, in July 1999 and December 2001. Eight organisations in seven different Asian countries undertook to adapt and print educational materials on codes of conduct for use in their own education programmes, as well as programmes of other nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and trade unions.
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  Tough choices: investing in health for development

  Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2006

  This report is a synthesis of country experiences from three years of work, following the 2001 report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH).
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  Girls' education in South Asia

  Oxfam, 2006

  South Asia has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world.
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  Is prevention better than cure? Vector control makes a come back

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Vector borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness, account for approximately 17 percent of all infectious disease worldwide. Vector control methods such as insecticide treated bednets and indoor spraying have proved highly effective at disease prevention but currently receive little investment.
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  Making city growth work for poor people

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Do poor people benefit from urban economic growth and if so, how? Conventional theory suggests that almost everyone should gain from economic growth. Eventually that growth should trickle down even to very poor people. In practice, however, the process has brought mixed results. The relationship between growth and poverty reduction is more complex.

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