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Tajikistan + 7 others
Food Security Overview in the Eurasian Region

This paper was prepared for the online-consultation “Food security issues in the Eurasian region: major challenges and G8/G20 initiatives in relation with the regional situation”. This paper is not meant to be an extensive and conclusive study1 and not providing information on the G20 initiatives.

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Kyrgyzstan - Market Assessment: Secondary Data Analysis, April 2013

This market assessment is to a large extent based on secondary data analysis. This includes the analysis of food price and consumer price index data from the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, commodity prices from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the APK-Inform Agency and food prices of the WFP Food Price Data Store, analysis of food balance sheets and of various reports and publications on food markets and the Kyrgyz economy.

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World + 55 others
Global Overview 2012: People internally displaced by conflict and violence

Around 6.5 million people were newly displaced, almost twice as many as the 3.5 million during 2011. The conflicts in Syria and DRC were responsible for around half of the new displacements.

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World + 29 others
Improving child nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress

Progress shows that stunting in children can be defeated – UNICEF

DUBLIN, 15 April 2013 – A new UNICEF report issued today offers evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. The report shows that accelerated progress is both possible and necessary.

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World + 7 others
New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

Cell phones, social media, crowdsourcing, crisis mapping, blogging, and big data can help to forestall crises and to address the root causes of violence.

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Case Study on Narrowing the Gaps for Equity

PROMOTING EQUITY IN THE MOST DEPRIVED AND REMOTE COMMUNITIES IN BATKEN

ABSTRACT

A recent series of socio-economic, political and security shocks in the Kyrgyz Republic adversely affected the lives of the poor and disadvantaged and slowed progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UNICEF and its partners have supported government and civil society in alleviating the impact of those shocks by refocusing on programmes benefiting the poorest and most vulnerable children and families.

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World + 15 others
Failed States Index 2012

Report
Fund for Peace

Contact: J.J. Messner Office: +1 202 223 7940 x 211 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2012 Failed States Index Released: Somalia ranked most troubled state for 5th straight year; Finland remains at best position; Libya, Japan and Syria Tumble

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Fund for Peace today released the eighth edition of its annual Failed States Index (FSI), highlighting global political, economic and social pressures experienced by states.

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Dereliction of duty

Report
Amnesty

The Kyrgyzstani authorities seem unwilling or unable to investigate allegations of collusion or complicity of security forces in the commission of human rights violations against civilians during four days of violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the south of the country in June 2010 Amnesty International said in a briefing published today.

Hundreds died, thousands were injured and hundreds of thousands displaced in June 2010.

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Afghanistan + 4 others
Central Asia’s Border Woes & the Impact of International Assistance

Over the last decade, the Central Asian republics have hosted a number of international programs designed to overhaul, equip, and reform the region’s border control practices aimed at making the borders more secure and open-more secure against threats such as narcotrafficking and cross-border extremism and more open to licit civilian crossings and lucrative trade flows.

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World + 18 others
2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Fact Sheet

Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

May 24, 2012

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World + 17 others
Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific: Key Challenges and Policy Issues

Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world’s (and especially Asia’s) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This paper discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it.

Asian Development Bank:

© Asian Development Bank

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World + 46 others
Global Overview 2011: People internally displaced by conflict and violence

People internally displaced by conflict and violence

For the last 14 years, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre has monitored intern- al displacement resulting from conflict and violence across the world. In 2011, the number of people internally displaced by these causes stood at 26.4 million.

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Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Widening ethnic divisions in the south

Asia Report N°222 – 29 March 2012

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS

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Tajikistan + 3 others
Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia

Summary: This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global food inflation has significant short-run effects that build over time. Inflation outcomes simulated under alternative global wheat price assumptions underscore these vulnerabilities, and suggest that sustained administrative measures are unlikely to prove effective.

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World + 5 others
UN Mediation and the Politics of Transition after Constitutional Crises

While the United Nations has extensive experience in helping to mediate the end to civil wars and implement peace agreements, its experience with non-civil-war transition crises is comparatively limited. This study examines the UN experience in five cases of unconstitutional changes in government between 2008-2011: Kenya, Mauritania, Guinea, Madagascar, and Kyrgyzstan.

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Socio-Economic Mapping of Tensions and Disputes in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Executive Summary

The study on ‘Socio-Economic Mapping of Tensions and Disputes in Southern Kyrgyzstan’ was designed to help determine the root causes of tension and disputes between communities in Osh, Jalalabad and Batken Provinces. The project used a dual approach of both macro and micro-level analyses to determine the causes of disputes or tensions, with each analysis looking at difference sources of information from different levels of society.

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World + 3 others
New York Seminar Report: Multilateral Strategies for Conflict Prevention

Christopher Mikulaschek and Paul Romita, rapporteurs

Ten years ago the UN Secretary-General pledged to intensify efforts to move from a culture of reaction to a culture of prevention. In 2005, heads of state and government at the UN World Summit solemnly renewed their commitment “to promote a culture of prevention of armed conflict.”