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UNEP Year Book 2010
The UNEP Yearbook 2010 is essential, informative and authoritative reading and within six chapters the Year Book addresses the following: In 2009, efforts to advance international environmental governance focussed on defining key objectives and functions for an improved UN architecture to address global environmental change. Ecosystems are being pushed beyond thresholds. Drivers [...]

The Dutch National Postcode Lottery has donated 1.4 million euros to the UN refugee agency for use in projects around the world this year. At a ceremony in the city of Utrecht on Thursday, Imme Rog, chief executive officer of Dutch Charity Lotteries, handed over a symbolic cheque to UNHCR Regional Representative for Western Europe [...]

* Contents, 2009 edition (PDF format 224 Kb.)
* Introduction 2009 edition (PDF format, 73 Kb.)
* 1. Social statistics (PDF format, 328 Kb.)
* 2. Economic statistics (PDF format, 563 Kb.)
* 3. Statistics on natural resources and the environment (PDF format, 262 Kb.)
* Technical notes, 2009 edition (PDF format, 458 Kb.)
* Sources, 2009 edition (PDF format, [...]

Civilian infrastructure, EU-NATO coordination, US goals, increasing Afghan responsibilities and the trade in drugs: all these issues were discussed on Monday at the EP’s Security and Defence Subcommittee ahead of the international conference on Afghanistan to be held in London on 28 January.

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WORLD REPORT 2010
The 612-page report, the organization’s 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe, summarizes major human rights trends in more than 90 nations and territories worldwide, reflecting the extensive investigative work carried out in 2009 by Human Rights Watch staff. The volume’s introductory essay by Executive Director Kenneth Roth argues that [...]

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Public health risk assessment and interventions: Earthquake – Haiti
The public health risk assessment for Haiti is to provide health professionals in United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, donor agencies and local authorities currently working with populations affected by the post-earthquake emergency, with up-to-date technical guidance on the major public health threats faced by the earthquake-affected population. [...]

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Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth
The global economic recovery that is now underway will slow later this year as the impact of fiscal stimulus wanes. Financial markets remain troubled and private sector demand lags amid high unemployment, according to a new report from the World Bank.

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Education for All – Global Monitoring Report
Reaching the marginalized
Education systems in many of the world’s poorest countries are now experiencing the aftershock of the global economic downturn.

Greater aid transparency: crucial for aid effectiveness
Human rights and propoor growth

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“Where Darkness Knows No Limits”
Incarceration, Ill-Treatment and Forced Labor as Drug Rehabilitation in China

Rand Posts Biggest Annual Gain Since 2003 on Yield Advantage, Commodities
The rand posted its biggest annual gain since 2003 as record-low interest rates in developed nations encouraged purchases of high-yield assets and as commodity prices rose on signs of a global economic recovery.
South African Credit Demand Contracts by 1.59% as Unemployment Increases
South African [...]

Tabel: Truck crossings between Israel and the West Bank: 2007 – 2008
1.  Points for emphasis
 

Growth continues in the West Bank. Fayyad recently addressed the growth of 8% or more that is projected for 2009. In an interview with the New York Times on November 11, Quartet emissary Blair anticipated that the Palestinian economy might reach [...]

Money Can’t Buy America Love
Millions of dollars are being pumped into hearts and minds projects from Kabul to Kandahar. Trouble is, it’s not working. And it might even be making things worse.
* Money Can’t Buy America Love (deel 1)
* Money Can’t Buy America Love (deel 2)
* Money Can’t Buy America Love (deel 3)
Addicted to Contractors
The [...]

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Agriculture at a Crossroads: Food for Survival
Climate change, hunger and poverty, loss of biodiversity, forest destruction, water crises, food safety – what all these threats have in common is that a principal cause for each of them is in the way we produce, trade, consume and discard food and other agricultural products. However, agriculture is [...]

During the past month, a large quantity of educational tools such as notebooks, backpacks, writing tools, and textbooks have crossed from Israel to Gaza for use in schools run by UNRWA.
(Communicated by the Coordinator for Government Activity in the Territories)
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 the Coordinator for Government Activity in the Territories (CoGAT), through the [...]

Of the 22 major western donor nations, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and Denmark responded most effectively to humanitarian emergencies around the world in 2008, according to the latest of three annual assessments of humanitarian aid released here Tuesday by Development Assistance Research Associates (DARA).

CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis, together the world’s largest development alliance, working with communities impacted by the food crisis across Asia, Africa and Latin America, will travel to Rome for next week’s World Food Summit to call on world leaders to harness the potential of small-scale farmers.
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Polyphonic and pluralistic, as the world’s two most populous democracies, India and the European Union (EU) are beasts of similar temperament. Yet of all the countries that the EU has a strategic partnership with (there are six in total: the US, Canada, Japan, China, Russia and India), its relationship with India is by far the [...]

 
 
Angola Seeks $4 Billion in Bond Sale, JPMorgan Says
Angola, which vies with Nigeria as Africa’s biggest oil producer, is seeking to raise $4 billion in the sub-Saharan African region’s largest sale of bonds.
South African Reserves Rise Slowly Even as Rand Gains
South African foreign currency reserves increased at a slower pace in October than the [...]

Group of Franciscan nuns and Catholic organizations provide 70 families in Payatas landfill an alternative to poverty, giving them land for only 0.20 euro per week.
For only 20 pesos a week (0.20 euro) 72 families in Payatas dump (Manila) find a home and a job. This thanks to the initiative of a group of [...]

 
President Barack Obama faces increasing pressure to fill his administration’s vacant top foreign assistance post, but there’s no candidate in sight nine months into his term.

Regional conference on child well-being and equity opens today in Dhaka
New data presented by UNICEF today shows that 300 million children are trapped in poverty in South Asia, almost half of all children in South Asia.
At the opening of a conference in Dhaka on Achieving Child Wellbeing and Equity in South Asia, UNICEF urged leaders [...]

Faith Based Development agencies say EU position on financial support fails to relieve climate change burden on developing countries
Brussels- EU Heads of State came together in Brussels today to try to pick up the pieces after talks collapsed amongst Finance Ministers EU last week on how to assist developing countries tackle climate change.

WECF provides information about nitrate contamination with new tool
With a new tool, the ToNi finder, WECF provides information about nitrate contamination and about sustainable school sanitation demonstration projects in villages of the EECCA region.

Nobody disputes the charge that Africa’s political leaders are often responsible for the continent’s troubles, says Sudanese-born business tycoon Mo Ibrahim. But he argues that Western governments and corporations could do much more to redress the unfair practices that hinder Africa’s economic development
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No Tally of the Anguish
Accountability in Maternal Health Care in India
This 150-page report documents repeated failures both in providing health care to pregnant women in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India and in taking steps to identify and address gaps in care. Uttar Pradesh has one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in India, but [...]

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WWF Ecofys Carbon Budget Report
In order to avoid dangerous climate change there is a growing consensus among now more than 120 countries that average global temperatures should not increase by more than 2°C over pre-industrial levels. This was affirmed in July of this year by the G8+5 nations, a group of countries encompassing all [...]

Kamworks Ltd is the first company in Cambodia which is series producing solar products locally. Last month the production of the MoonLight has started in, en Svay, Kandal province.

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Chad: ‘No place for us here’: Violence against refugee women in Eastern Chad

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Numerous barriers prevent developing countries — in particular, the least developed — from taking advantage of trade opportunities that could help them reduce poverty. The Aid for Trade initiative has successfully built awareness of the support these countries need to surmount these barriers.

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The State of the World’s Children 2009 examines the current state of maternal and neonatal health, explores the fundamentals of a supportive environment for mothers and newborns, and outlines ways to strengthen efforts in support of primary health care. The report highlights the importance of establishing a continuum of maternal and newborn care framework [...]

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This handbook offers health managers, researchers and policy makers a comprehensive and standard reference for monitoring and evaluating human resources for health. It brings together an analytical framework with strategy options, as well as country experiences.
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Idelphonse Nizeyimana, former second in command, in charge of intelligence and military operations at ESO (Ecole des Sous Officiers), was on 5 October 2009 arrested in Kampala, Uganda by the National Central Bureau of Interpol of the Ugandan Police in collaboration with the tracking team of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The accused, [...]

Human Development Report 2009
Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development

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Human development is about putting people at the centre of development. It is about people realizing their potential, increasing their choices and enjoying the freedom to lead lives they value. Since 1990, annual Human Development Reports have explored challenges including poverty, gender, democracy, human rights, [...]

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With around a quarter of the world’s states and 53 members, the African Union should pack a very real punch. But they have never negotiated together, until now. The Copenhagen climate talks will hear Africa’s voice loud and clear. An important development for climate issues and the continent.
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Social Watch Report 2009 – Making finances work: People first

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Knowledge, policy and power; Six dimensions of the knowledge–development policy interface
(Overseas Development Institute)
The critical importance of knowledge in strengthening policy is increasingly recognised in development circles. While there is considerable value in academic knowledge in terms of shaping the thinking of policy actors and practitioners over time, policy research can also have far-reaching [...]

Systematic Discrimination and Hostility toward Saudi Shia Citizens
This 32-page report documents the sharpest sectarian tensions in the kingdom in years, set off by clashes between Shia pilgrims and religious police in Medina in February 2009, followed by arbitrary arrests of Shia protesters in the Eastern Province in March. The closing of private Shia halls [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
* Women and work in Egypt
* THE “NEW EAST ASIAN REGIONALISM”: A “POLITICAL DOMINO” EFFECT?
* MEASUREMENT OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC DISPARITIES
* INTERREGIONAL REDISTRIBUTION, GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE
* Gendering globalization
* Agricultural Water Use and Trade in Uzbekistan: Situation and Potential Impacts of Market Liberalization
* The Conception, Design and Implementation of IMT in Pakistan’s Punjab: A Public Policy Reflection
* [...]

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The widespread and systematic rape of girls in war zones is increasingly a characteristic of conflict in many parts of the world, a senior United Nations official warned today in an expansive report on children and armed conflict.
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A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19 nations from around the world finds that majorities in 15 think their government should put a higher priority on addressing climate change than it does now. This includes the largest greenhouse gas emitters: China (62% want more action), the US (52%), and Russia (56%).
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The case of the Limpopo Basin, South Africa Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on South Africa. In particular, rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts. The extent to which these impacts are felt [...]

Sweden’s development agency will cut its research and development budget by 20 per cent in 2010 as a result of the financial crisis, SciDev.Net can reveal.
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The UN refugee agency said here Tuesday it was “gravely concerned” about the situation in and around the northern Yemen city of Sa’ada, where more than 35,000 people have been displaced by fresh conflict over the past three weeks.
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The Dead Sea, one of the 28 official finalist candidates in the online global competition to rate the New7Wonders of Nature, is currently ranked among the Top 14, according to an announcement by the New7Wonders Foundation.

The UN refugee agency asked donor governments Friday for an additional $5 million to help thousands of Yemeni civilians caught in escalating fighting between Al Houthi rebels and the government forces in the mountains of northern Yemen.
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How to fight global poverty-effectively
By the fourth day after the October 2005 earthquake in northern Pakistan, the world had woken up to the fact that something very big had happened. The government was estimating that 50,000 or more people had been injured or killed, and many survivors were likely trapped somewhere without water or food. [...]

Professor pioneers DIY adjustable glasses that do not need an optician
It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 (”in the afternoon, as I recall”) that first started Josh Silver on his quest to make the world’s poor see. A professor of physics at Oxford University, Silver was idly discussing optical lenses with a colleague, [...]

Where I come from in West Africa, we have a saying: “A fool at 40 is a fool forever”, and most African countries have now been independent for over 40 years.
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