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01 Feb 2001

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US Country Reports on Human Rights 2000

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— US Department of State
This overview of the year 2000 examines world-wide human rights practices, providing general discussions of the year, developments in human rights, democracy, and labor, as well as the history of the human rights reports.

A resource for shaping policy, conducting diplomacy, and making assistance, training, and other resource allocations, the report also serves as a basis for the U.S. Government's cooperation with private groups to promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights.
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01 Feb 2001

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Humanitarian Negotiation: Observations from Recent Experience

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— Harvard University
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During the last twenty years, the United Nations, the Red Cross Movement and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have had to increasingly utilise negotiation to ensure access and the provision of humanitarian assistance to those in need. Current trends of increasing international and intrastate conflict are likely to continue and thus negotiated access will remain an important issue. After a number of years of experience with such negotiation it may now be time to take stock of the lessons learned.

This review has been based on field
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01 Feb 2001

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Population Mobility and AIDS - UNAIDS Technical Update February 2001

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— UNAIDS
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Migration, mobility, and HIV/AIDS are major global phenomena at the beginning of the new millennium. Since the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, a concern of governments has been that people moving between countries might be spreading HIV. Today, however, there is increasing recognition that migrants and mobile people may be more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than are populations that do not move. They may acquire HIV while on the move, and take the infection back with them when they return home, often without even knowing it. They also face greater obstacles in
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01 Jan 2001

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OCHA Presence in the Great Lakes Region 2001

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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01 Jan 2001

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OCHA Presence in Southeastern Europe 2001

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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01 Jan 2001

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Food Balance Sheet: A Handbook

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— Food and Agriculture Organization
This handbook seeks to provide member countries and interested institutions with the basic methodology for the preparation of food balance sheets. For this purpose, it offers the following main sections:

- Concepts and definitions used in food balance sheets
- Procedures for preparation of food balance sheets
- Applications and uses for food balance sheets data

The food balance sheets can be of use to international organisations, governments, planners and researchers in appraising the food and agricultural situation in a country, estimating overall shortages
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01 Jan 2001

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Humanitarian Supply Management and Logistics in the Health Sector

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— Pan American Health Organization
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Aiming to present the most basic concepts of humanitarian supply management and logistics, this document provides guidelines for the management of supplies to victims, covering themes such as logistics, coordination, procurement, storage, transport and distribution.

Underlining the need for countries and organisations to incorporate logistcs into planning and preparedness for disasters, the publication seeks to contribute to greater effectiveness and accountability in the provision of humanitarian assistance to the victims of disasters,
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01 Jan 2001

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Human Rights Watch World Report 2001

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— Human Rights Watch
This annual review of human rights practices covers developments in 70 countries over the period November 1999 to November 2000. With respect to particular countries, issues examined include:

- Significant human rights developments
- Response of global actors, e.g. the EU, Japan, the US, the UN, & regional organisations
- Freedom of local human rights defenders to conduct their work

Other chapters examine thematic concerns:

- Academic freedom
- Business and human rights
- Child soldiers campaign
- Human Rights Watch international film
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01 Jan 2001

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Results-Oriented Annual Report 2000

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— UN Development Programme
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As part of its effort to continually improve, refine and maximise its impact, UNDP offers a Results Oriented Annual Report (ROAR) to examine the progress towards strategic development outcomes in 2000.

Aiming to serve as a barometer of change towards sustainable human development at the country level in areas UNDP is mandated to support, this detailed and wide-ranging account gives a comprehensive analysis of trends and performance in all key practice areas according to clearly defined criteria.

The report is used as the principal source
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01 Jan 2001

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Towards Gender Mainstreaming in Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management

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— Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
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With the underlying assumption that gender equality is an essential prerequisite for any sustainable development and peace-building activity, this paper offers an analytical framework and guidelines on gender mainstreaming in crisis prevention and conflict management. This is shown both on a conceptual and practical level.

The first part discusses the conceptual and analytical terrain for gender main-streaming in crisis prevention and conflict management, while the second gives examples of a gender-sensitive approach

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