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Guide des Normes internationales de l’action contre les mines – Edition 2010

Les NILAM sont les normes établies par les Nations Unies pour guider la planification, la mise en œuvre et la gestion des programmes d’action contre les mines. Elles servent aussi de cadre lors de l’élaboration des normes nationales de l’action contre les mines.

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Indonesia: West Sumatra Earthquake Casualities, 01 Oct 2009

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Benin + 14 others
West Africa: Global Acute Malnutrition Prevalence (GAM) (as of 01 Oct 2009)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 44 - Feature: The Crisis in the West Bank and Gaza

This issue of Humanitarian Exchange focuses on the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza

Articles set out the current situation in the oPt and outline the impact of the barrier and the closure system. Rolf Holmboe, Denmark's representative to the Palestinian Authority, describes his government's programme to enable municipalities to provide basic services and support community development. Other
articles look at UNDP's efforts to help individuals and communities to reclaim their agency and dignity, the hidden crisis of displacement, the impact of human rights group B'Tselem's
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The Mine Ban Convention After 10 Years: Achievements and Challenges

Report
ICRC
ACHIEVEMENTS

A total of 156 States are now party to the Convention; and two others (Poland and the Marshall Islands) have signed, but not yet ratifi ed it. The Convention has had a significant impact on worldwide anti-personnel mine use, production and trade. Among States the use of anti-personnel mines is now rare, and use by non-State armed groups is declining. Production of anti-personnel mines has ceased in 38 States, four of whom are not party to the Convention; and legal trade in these weapons is virtually non-existent.

REMAINING CHALLENGES
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Climate Change Connections - Gender & Population

One of the most urgent issues of our time, climate change is already impacting populations and ecosystems around the globe, threatening to set back development efforts by decades. But the impacts are not being felt equally.

The differentiated impacts of climate change on women are numerous. An understanding of how climate change, sustainable development and population issues intersect-and the specific impacts on women-will help in the development of effective, gender-sensitive policies and programmes.
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Development Outreach Vol. 11 No. 2: Fragility and Conflict

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World Bank
ABOUT THIS ISSUE

Fragile and conflict-affected states are not new, but the challenges they pose have moved to the top of the development agenda in recent years. Experience has shown that the task of moving a poor, conflict-affected state out of fragility is a complex, difficult and long-term project. In many cases, like in Afghanistan, gains have been hard-won, slow and uncertain. Nonetheless, recent history offers grounds for optimism. Mozambique and El Salvador, once stuck in a downward slide of violent conflict and economic ruin, are now democracies enjoying
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Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano 2009 : Superando barreras - Movilidad y desarrollo humanos

El desarrollo humano sitúa a las personas en el centro del desarrollo. Se trata, en este sentido, de que las personas desarrollen su potencial, aumenten sus posibilidades y disfruten de la libertad para vivir la vida que valoran. Desde 1990, los Informes sobre Desarrollo Humano anuales han analizado los desafíos que plantean la pobreza, las cuestiones de género, la democracia, los derechos humanos, la libertad cultural, la globalización, la escasez de agua y el cambio climático.
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The Next Revolution: Giving Every Child the Chance to Survive

Thirty years ago, Jim Grant, then head of UNICEF, spearheaded a surge of global action to save millions of children's lives. Faced with the fact that many children were dying from conditions that could easily be prevented, he mounted a campaign to raise widespread awareness, money and political support for change. His efforts, and those of many others, became known as the 'child survival and development revolution'.

Now, as we enter the second decade of a new century,we can count the successes of that revolution. Millions of
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Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - Who Controls the Governance of the World Food System?

Failure by national governments and international institutions to ensure the right to food has led to rising numbers of malnourished and starving people, as documented in the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2009. The report which is being launched this week on the occasion of World Food Day in twelve countries worldwide, is a common endeavor of a Consortium of human rights organisations, social movements and development agencies, among them Brot f=FCr die Welt, FIAN International and the Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation (ICCO).
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Negotiating Natural Resources for Peace: Ownership, Control and Wealth-Sharing

Natural resources (such as oil, natural gas, diamonds, minerals, forests and water) are often a major source of national income, and are also a major cause of conflict and instability if mismanaged or shared unfairly. Countries with weak institutions often struggle to handle the potentially destructive force of corruption and attempts by various actors to capture the wealth generated by natural resources. The governance of natural resources is especially important in the context of divided societies because control over the benefits from local natural
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Convention de l'Union africaine sur la protection et l'assistance aux personnes déplacées en Afrique (Convention de Kampala)

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African Union
Préambule

Nous, Chefs d'État et de gouvernement des États membres de l'Union africaine ;

CONSCIENTS de la gravité de la situation des personnes déplacées qui constitue une source d'instabilité et de tension continuelles pour les États africains ;

ÉGALEMENT CONSCIENTS de la souffrance et de la vulnérabilité spécifique des personnes déplacées;

RÉITÉRANT la coutume et la tradition africaines inhérentes d'hospitalité par les Communautés locales d'accueil pour les personnes en détresse, et l'appui à ces communautés ;
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A Distinction with a Difference: Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding

Are peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity the same thing? Different but related? Completely separate? Increasingly, practitioners and policy makers give different-and often opposing-answers to these simple questions. Part of the difficulty arises from the "migration" of the terms, as both have shifted their meanings over time, each coming to embrace more and more conceptual territory. Also, the various actors involved have shifted their roles. Development and humanitarian agencies have expanded from their traditional roles and increasingly attempt to
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Overcoming Fragility in Africa: Forging a New European Approach (Advanced copy)

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European Union
Policy-making requires accurate, deep and timely knowledge of any situation. And development is no exception. In Europe, there is a wealth of universities and research institutes which think about development issues and produce enlightened analytical work. However, its full potential has yet to be unleashed for numerous reasons, including fragmentation of efforts, a lack of resources and a relative disconnection from the policy- making sphere.

The "Mobilizing European research for development policies" initiative is meant to remedy this situation. Currently
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2009 Report on International Religious Freedom

he International Religious Freedom report is submitted to Congress annually by the Department of State in compliance with Section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998. This report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide.
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CSSProject for Integrative Mediation Annual Report 2008

CSSProject for Integrative Mediation (CSSP) is an NGO operating primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia.

In concrete terms, the main aim of CSSP is to develop different formats and environments in which conflict parties come together to discuss issues of concern, build trusting relationships, and develop durable solutions. The stakeholders are brought together in tailor-made mediation processes based on the Integrative Mediation methodology and involving elements of Stakeholder Consultation, Conflict Analysis,
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Climate Change Connections (Français)

Le changement climatique, l'un les populations et les écosystèmes du monde entier. Aggravant la pauvreté et conduisant à la destruction décennies d'efforts de conduisant à la décennies d'efforts des
décennies d'efforts développement, nous affectant tous profondément.

Comprendre les interactions entre le changement climatique, le développement durable et les questions liées à la population ainsi que leur impact politiques et des programmes efficaces et sensibles au genre.
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Landmine Monitor Report 2009: Special Ten-Year Review of the Mine Ban Treaty

Landmine Monitor Report 2009 is the eleventh annual report by Landmine Monitor, an unprecedented civil society initiative providing research and monitoring for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Cluster Munition Coalition. Landmine Monitor collects information and assesses the international community's response to the global landmine, cluster munition, and explosive remnants of war problem, especially with regard to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. Since 1999, Landmine Monitor has assessed and reported annual progress in the implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty.
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Professional Standards for Protection Work: Carried Out by Humanitarian and Human Rights Actors in Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence

Report
ICRC
Protecting people caught up in armed conflict and other situations of violence is a critical challenge. In many armed conflicts, distinctions between civilians and combatants are deliberately blurred. All too often civilians are the target of attacks and systematic violations and abuse of their rights. States and other relevant duty bearers frequently lack the capacity - or the will - to ensure effective protection of those at risk. Worse still, they may themselves perpetrate violence and abuse against certain segments of the population.

The international community has