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    Statelessness and the benefits of citizenship: a comparative study

    Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2009
    Sixty years after the international community embedded the right to nationality in the human rights architecture, approximately twelve million people around the world remain stateless. What are the hurdles to overcoming statelessness and how has citizenship made a qualitative difference in the lives of formerly excluded groups?
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Institutionalisation of regional metagovernance framework to enhance human security in East Asia

    Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration, Waseda University, 2008
    This paper examines the relationship between poverty alleviation and human security. It evaluates the significance of the concepts, how they are mutually reinforcing and how they contribute towards achieving sustainable development in East Asia.
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    Climate change and human rights: a rough guide

    International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva, 2008
    This report discusses a spectrum of human rights concerns raised by anthropogenic climate change and by the strategies devised to address it.
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    Secure land rights for all

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Secure land rights are important for development and poverty reduction and the greatest challenges for providing such rights are in urban, peri-urban areas, and the most productive rural areas.
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    Brazilian perspectives on human security

    Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2007
    The paper shows that human security is more than a normative framework and must be reformulated into an operational and analytical tool. It begins by looking at the concept of human security, considering its links and practical applications to the problems of human violence.
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    Human security: concepts, implications and application to the post-intervention challenges in Afghanistan

    Centre of International Studies and Research, 2005
    This paper reviews the debates in relation to the concept of “human security” applied specifically to the situation in Afghanistan.It provides an examination of the definitions of human security and its reception by the international community along with analysis of the implications that the adoption of a human security approach might imply in deciding policies and applying programmes.The pa
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    The Human Security Framework and National Human Development Reports: a review of experiences and current debates

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006
    This paper identifies some interesting and useful applications of the Human Security Framework.
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    Safety, security and accessible justice: putting policy into practice

    Department for International Development, UK, 2002
    The aim of these guidelines is to assist development staff in putting safety, security and accessible justice (SSAJ), policy into practice.As the guidelines highlight there are a number of reasons why safety, security and accessible justice matter to poor people, including:poor people and vulnerable groups suffer disproportionately from crime – eg the impact of theft is more severe if
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    Human security report 2005: war and peace in the 21st Century

    Human Security Centre, 2005
    The first Human Security Report presents a comprehensive and evidence-based portrait of global security.

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