Humanity and solidarity are among the core values of the European Union, which is why the bloc is one of the largest humanitarian donors in the world. But giving is not enough. The humanitarian aid Directorate General of the European Commission (ECHO) is committed to providing quality, efficient and fast aid, that benefits the most vulnerable.

Humanitarian aid is a difficult and serious business that must be carefully constructed, not improvised. Crises are more numerous and complex nowadays, and choices that are made about

The Alliance for Conflict Transformation is pleased to announce the publication of a new report: "Skills, Networks & Knowledge: Developing a Career in International Peace and Conflict Resolution." This report helps to fill a critical gap in the field, as it is the first of its kind to survey employers regarding career opportunities within international peace and conflict resolution. We believe that it will be of interest to employers, and to students and professionals pursuing a career in this field and to the academic and professional organizations that seek to prepare them.

This paper is INSTRAW's contribution to the current debate on the link between remittances and development. Its purpose is to present key elements for the development of a preliminary framework that will strengthen the understanding of the interrelationships between migration, gender, remittances and development and also serve as an entry point for future research and project proposals.

The first section describes the feminization of migration within the context of globalization. The second reviews the relevant literature on remittances, while in the third section, the relationship

A team of social scientists based at Social Watch headquarters in Montevideo, tapped the latest information available nationally and internationally and processed it with methodologies designed, tested and scrutinized over ten years to produce the country by country figures and global summaries included in this volume. These data were analyzed and interpreted with the invaluable assistance of the international Social Watch Coordinating Committee and the conclusions were found consistent with what national Social Watch coalitions reported from their own countries.

Every day,diarrhoeal diseases from easily preventable causes claim the lives of approximately 5 000 young children throughout the world. Sufficient and better quality drinking water and basic sanitation can cut this toll dramatically,and simple, low-cost household water treatment has the potential to save further lives.

As we enter the International Decade for Action Water for Life 2005-2015, this report makes clear that achieving the target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation will bring a payback worth many times

This research examines perceptions of security among three sets of actors: peace support operations (PSOs), assistance agencies (AAs), and local populations. The research made three major findings. First, perceptions of security differ significantly among the three sets of actors. The second major finding is that perceptions differ significantly within each of the three sets of actors. Thirdly, perceptions of security evolve significantly over time.

In sum, the data presented and analyzed by the study offers an intriguing and provocative look at the wide-ranging

Natural disasters are happening more often, and having an ever more dramatic impact on the world in terms of both their human and economic costs. While the number of lives lost has declined in the past 20 years - 800,000 people died from natural disasters in the 1990s, compared with 2 million in the 1970s - the number of people affected has risen. Over the past decade, the total affected by natural disasters has tripled to 2 billion.

Disasters are closely linked to poverty; they can wipe out decades of development in a matter of hours, in a manner

This Report does not attempt to explain why Africa suffers from crime or under-development it focuses on establishing two points:

- All available evidence suggests that Africa has a serious crime problem (Chapter One).
- There is good reason to believe that this crime problem is undermining development efforts (Chapter Two).

The intent of this Report is to make the case for including crime prevention in development planning, as discussed in Chapter Three

These guidelines have taken into account relevant international instruments, in particular those instruments in which the progressive realization of the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, is enshrined.

Their objective is to provide practical guidance to States in their implementation of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security, in order to achieve the goals of the Plan of Action of the World Food Summit. Relevant stakeholders could also benefit from such guidance.