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01 Dec 2003

World
AIDS Epidemic Update 2003

Report

This document reports on the latest developments in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. It demonstrates that there have been steady increases in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as in the number of AIDS deaths.

With maps and regional summaries, the 2003 edition provides the annual estimates of the epidemic's scope and human toll, explores new trends in the epidemic's evolution, and features a special section examining stigma and discrimination.

The report is based on HIV-related data, collected and interpreted by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization thanks

01 Dec 2003

World
The Human Dimensions of Environmental Insecurity: Some Insights from South Asia

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— Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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This article presents the key insights that emerge from a regional research project that explored environment and security links in the context of South Asia. The project resulted in the recently published volume Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia. This article focuses on what the South Asian experience can contribute to the larger literature on environment and security and, more particularly, to the literature on human security and sustainable development. It argues that chronic and structural impoverishment-rather

01 Dec 2003

World
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 25 - Neutrality

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— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network

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Neutrality is traditionally regarded as one of the core, defining principles of humanitarian action, and essential to securing access to people in need of protection and assistance in politically-charged environments. Together with impartiality, it features in the mandates of many organisations involved in humanitarian response. It is, however, interpreted in different ways. Many argue that, with such crises as the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, neutrality is under grave threat as an operating principle. Some believe that it is essential for the future of humanitarian action

01 Dec 2003

World
Peace, Security, and Governance in the Great Lakes Region

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— International Peace Academy

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The seminar, "Peace, Security, and Governance, in the Great Lakes region," the first in the third phase of the International Peace Academy's (IPA) Africa Program, jointly organized with the Office of the Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary- General for the Great Lakes Region (Kenya), took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 15-17 December 2003. Other partners in the convening of the policy seminar included: the African Dialogue Centre for Conflict Management and Development Issues ( Tanzania), the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation (Tanzania),

01 Dec 2003

World
Transforming War Economies: Challenges for Peacemaking and Peacebuilding

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— International Peace Academy

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Policy analysis has produced important insights on the impact that the predatory and illicit exploitation of natural resources and the pervasive criminalization of economic life can have on conflict dynamics. The operational challenges of transforming the 'war economies' sustaining those conflicts, however, is still an underdeveloped area of policy research and practice. The International Peace Academy-sponsored conference at Wilton Park sought to discern as to whether and how the legacies of war economies in conflicts such as those in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone,

01 Dec 2003

World
The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

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— UN Human Settlements Program

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The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 is mainly concerned with the shelter conditions of the majority of the urban poor. It is about how the poor struggle to survive within urban areas, mainly through informal shelter and informal income-generation strategies, and about the inadequacy of both public and market responses to the plight of the urban poor. But the report is also about hope, about building on the foundations of the urban poor's survival strategies and about what needs to be done by both the public and non-governmental

01 Dec 2003

Angola
Angola's massive push to "a Class Act"

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— UN Children's Fund

KUITO, 1 December 2003 -- When Joana Napeio first took her seat in the new classroom built by her local community, she wanted to cry. So it goes with children all around the world on their first day at school, but unlike most children, her tears were of joy.
If Joana Napeio, bright and now being educated, represents the future of Angola, the country is in good hands. She is one of a quarter-of-a-million Angolan children who, at the start of this year, returned to school as part of the 'Back-to-School' campaign, an Angolan Ministry of Education and UNICEF initiative.

01 Dec 2003

occupied Palestinian territory
OPT: Emergency - WaSH updates and needs, 1 Dec 2003

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— Water and Sanitation and Hygiene Monitoring Project

Budrus, Qibya, Shuqba, and Shabtin / Ramallah Governorate
The four communities of Budrus, Qibya, Shuqba and Shabtin, located in the northwestern part of Ramallah Governorate, have water networks and are provided with water from Shabtin well through a Mekorot connection.

During September 2003, provision of water to the four communities stopped for an entire week, after which time only 15 to 20 % of the normal supply was provided to the four communities from the Mekorot connection. However, since the start of November 2003, supply

30 Nov 2003

Burundi
Learning for the first time: Children in the JRS Buterere catch-up school

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— Jesuit Refugee Service

Since 1997, JRS has been assisting the displaced population in Buterere district, Bujumbura, Burundi. Among other activities (workshops, restaurant, cultural animation, agricultural assistance, psychological assistance), JRS provides education to 116 children from the most vulnerable families in the area. Set up in 2000, the school this year aims to help the children catch up with and join the Burundian education system for the year 2004-2005.
Janvier, Hussein and Sandrine are three children living in Buterere. Sandrine, 9, lives in Mutakura, 3 kilometres

30 Nov 2003

Sudan
USAID Field Report Sudan Nov 2003

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— US Agency for International Development

Program Description
Since 1983, an estimated two million Sudanese have died as a result of the protracted conflict, drought, and famine. In the past year, however, several positive developments within Sudan have occurred, providing new opportunities to finally resolve Africa's longest war and move the country toward a lasting peace. In addition to several successful local-level, people-to-people peace processes, the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) appear to be on the verge of a peace agreement.

OTI's work links ongoing peace processes

30 Nov 2003

Burundi
USAID Field Report Burundi Nov 2003

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— US Agency for International Development

Program Description
From March 2002 through August 2003, OTI supported the Burundi Initiative for Peace (BIP), implemented through the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES). The BIP provided small grants to indigenous civil society groups, the media, and the transitional government to promote good governance and the active and informed participation of citizens in support of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Accord (APRA). For the first year of its program, OTI also supported the Legislative Strengthening

30 Nov 2003

Democratic Republic of the Congo
USAID Field Report DR Congo Nov 2003

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— US Agency for International Development

Program Description
USAID/OTI's goal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is to enhance the informed participation of Congolese society in political and economic decision-making processes that contribute to a peaceful, unified, and democratic country.

To advance this goal OTI activities fall under three objectives:

Increased country-wide availability of and access to balanced information;
Increased public participation in informed dialogue on issues of national importance; and
Expanded and strengthened linkages between

30 Nov 2003

Afghanistan
USAID Field Report Afghanistan Nov 2003

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— US Agency for International Development

Program Description
USAID/OTI's program goal is to support the process of recovery, rehabilitation, and political development in post-conflict Afghanistan. Working with local and international partners, the program is building citizen confidence in the progress of political development, empowering citizens to address basic community needs, and building an alliance between legitimate government structures and citizens. In addition, USAID/OTI supports efforts to strengthen independent media. USAID/OTI's budget for FY2002 was approximately $27 million. In FY2003 the budget was approximately

30 Nov 2003

Sri Lanka
USAID Field Report Sri Lanka Nov 2003

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— US Agency for International Development

Program Description
USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) Sri Lanka program assists in generating greater support for a negotiated peace settlement that will end long-standing conflict in Sri Lanka. To accomplish this aim, OTI has three objectives:

demonstrate tangible benefits of peace;
iincrease the amount and exchange of information and diverse points of view on peace issues among various levels of society and within different communities and,
reduce or prevent incidents of violence in conflict-prone communities.

Based

30 Nov 2003

Angola
USAID Field Report Angola Nov 2003

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— US Agency for International Development

Program Description
The OTI program in Angola was initiated in February 2003 to support the renewed opportunity for a lasting peace and increased democracy following the end of 40 years of violent conflict. OTI is providing support in three areas: strengthening civil society advocacy capacity; strengthening media; and increasing local-level engagement between citizens and authorities in order to address community problems. OTI's implementing partner is Creative Associates and the FY 2004 budget is approximately $3.8 million.

Country Situation

On November 28, the Angolan Council of

30 Nov 2003

Russian Federation
From the Conflict Zone: Bulletin of Human Rights Center «Memorial» - Nov 2003

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(the issue prepared by HRC «Memorial» in Nazran)

Dear colleagues,

Human Rights Center «Memorial» offers its ensuing information bulletin based on the results of monitoring the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic and the process of overcoming consequences of 1992 conflict in Prigorodny district of North Osetia.

Your questions and comments, please, send to:
386100 Republic Ingushetia, Nazran, Mutalieva, 46 Human Rights Centre «Memorial»
e-mail: memorial@southnet.ru
phone/fax + 7 (8732 ) 22 23 49

The Situation in the Chechen Republic

28 Nov 2003

Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Women's rights fund

Report

— Canadian International Development Agency

Planned Project Summary Information
Project number: A-032194

Branch: Asia

Country: Afghanistan

CIDA's ODA Priorities:

50% Gender Equality is the Principal Objective/Result;
50% Protection and Promotion of Human Rights

CIDA's Sectors: 100% Human Rights

Project Approval Date: September 20, 2003

Anticipated Project Duration: 2 years

Estimated Project Value Range: $1.0M to $3.0M

Project Implementation: Unsolicited Proposal: Rights and Democracy; Competitive contracts during the implementation of the project: None.

Probable Publication Date on MERX:

27 Nov 2003

Albania + 3 others
Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia: Armed to the teeth

Report

— Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Source: IWPR and Saferworld
Disarming civilians in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia means making them see guns are a threat to security, not a guarantee.

By David Quin, Vladimir Jovanovski and Ana Petruseva in Macedonia; Naser Miftari, Artan Mustafa and Jeta Xharra in Kosovo; and Ilir Aliaj and Lazar Semini in Albania (BCR No 470, 27-Nov-03)

Sweat pours down Emin Limani's face as he picks up gun after gun - and then shovels them into a furnace. He's melting them down as part of a scheme to disarm Kosovo.

27 Nov 2003

Democratic Republic of the Congo
DR Congo: Living in a garage

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— Jesuit Refugee Service

More than one thousand women and children have been cramped together in intolerably over-crowded conditions in an old garage in Kinshasa since 1999. They are widows of soldiers, wives of former high-ranking officers in Mobutu's army, and their children. They've lost everything, though their story is known to few. JRS has been accompanying them since 2000, providing health and nutritional assistance, as well as training in Income Generating Activities and formal education.
In May 1997, the forces of the coalition led by Laurent-Desiré Kabila entered Kinshasa, the capital city of the

27 Nov 2003

Georgia
Georgia: Fearful Abkhazia talks to allies

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— Institute for War and Peace Reporting

After Georgia's peaceful revolution, the leadership of the breakaway republic has put its troops on alert and faces new dissent at home.
By Inal Khashig in Sukhum (GA No. 04, 27-11-03)

Leaders of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, fearful of what the change of government in Georgia may mean for them, flew to Moscow on November 27 for talks with potential allies.

The removal of Eduard Shevardnadze as Georgian president has focused attention on the condition of his long-time foe, Abkhaz president Vladislav Ardzinba, who has not appeared in public

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