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by Jan Pronk In 2001 the United Nations organised a World Conference on Racism in Durban. It was quite a turbulent conference. Developing countries had criticised...

Society for International Development European Feminist Forum: Interview with Wendy Harcourt, Senior Director and Editor of the journal Development at the Society for International Development

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PohSze Choo, Barbara SNowak, KyokoKusakabe and Meryl JWilliams The journal Development is committed to ‘the search for alternative paths of social transformation towards a more sustainable...

Society for International Development "Development, Culture and Conflict" new Featured Article by Jan Pronk, President of the Society for International Development, published in Development 52.4 ‘Xenophobia, Culture and Identity’. Download full article on www.sidint.net!
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By Jan Pronk | Nowadays world summits do not function as they should. They fall short in three respects. Their composition seems to be rather arbitrary,...

Society for International Development European Feminist Forum publishes ’A Herstory’: The book is a compilation of articles on the most important issues facing feminists in the new Europe, including: migration, employment, new organizing and fundraising strategies, the dialogue between different generations of women, and the politics surrounding sexuality and women’s bodily integrity.
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On 14-15 February 2009, SID Rajasthan Chapter, NHRD Network, Jaipur Chapter, IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Jaipur & FICCI, Rajasthan State Council organized a two...

Society for International Development Washington, DC- The Society for International Development (SID-Washington) is proud to honor Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar with the 2010 Award for Leadership in Development for their contribution to the international development community as the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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by Wendy Harcourt Too often mainstream development skirts around the tricky realities of racism and xenophobia or fear of the ‘other’. Such discussions happen on the...

Society for International Development Eldis.org: Resource guide on gender and climate change. Including women’s voices in climate change policy and programming
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TariqBanuri In the ‘lost decade’ of the 1980s, developing countries confronted a severe crisis: persistent deficits in balance of payments and government budgets, accelerating inflation, widening...

Society for International Development New Featured Article by Gladys Kirungi: Status and Challenges of East Africa’s Extractive Resource Industry: Towards a better future for the mining Industry in East Africa.
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September 11 2001 ushered in a deep sense of uncertainty for the USA and Europe that demands to be analysed and reviewed from diverse standpoints....

Society for International Development (Gallup.com)Top-Emitting Countries Differ on Climate Change Threat. Together, China, the United States, India, Russia, and Japan account for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.Public opinion about climate change across this mix of developed and major developing economies reveals some remarkable simi...larities and differences, both in awareness and in the perceived level of threat that global warming poses.
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By Wendy Harcourt Recent Forums of the Association of Women’s Rights and Development (AWID) are marked by an energy that you cannot forget. The Forum on...

Society for International Development ‘Beyond Economics’ - 11 December 2009, Launch of Development Vol 52 no 3 in The Hague! HIVOS and the Society for International Development (SID International Secretariat and SID NL) will be organizing the afternoon event chaired by SID President Jan Pronk...read more on www.sidint.net
Society for International Development Forum » Launch of Development Vol 52 no 3 on ‘Beyond Economics
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Source: Human Development Reports The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) Table is a composite indicator that captures gender inequality in three key areas: the extent of women’s...

Society for International Development New Institutional Arrangements for Human Development. Twenty years after the first publication of the UNDP Human Development report, Development Journal revisits the concept of human development. How can human development be revitalized to empower people to enact change? In 2010, Volume 53 of Development will return to... those key themes raised by the founders of human development.
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According to UNHCR Somalia briefing sheet, ongoing conflict in the last 18 years continued to generate mass movements of Somali refugees fleeing to neighbouring countries...

Society for International Development Gallup.Com: Obama approval on Afghanistan, at 35%, trails other issues. The decline in Obama's approval rating on Afghanistan is evident among all party groups, with double-digit decreases since September among Republicans (17 points), independents (16 points), and Democrats (10 points).While a slim majority of Obama's... fellow Democrats approve of his handling of the issue, his new policy may not be well-received by Democrats, who have indicated opposition to troop-level increases in Afghanistan. The details of the policy will likely be more appealing to Republicans, who are supportive of putting more U.S. troops in Afghanistan...
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As President Obama outlines a new U.S. military policy in Afghanistan, Gallup finds that 35% Americans currently approve and 55% disapprove of his handling of the situation there. That rating is down sharply from September, and is his worst of seven

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Mohamed Ahmed,
Reuters: In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up
a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock
exchange meets criminal syndicate....
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Mohamed Ahmed/Reuters People gather outside a former local bank, where pirates were dividing ransom payment obtained for the Spanish ship Alakrana. In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a ...

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by Flaminia Vola Within the framework of the Diaspeace Project, (Diaspora for Peace , case studies from the Horn of Africa) CeSPI (Italian Centre for Political...















