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BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights takes a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research, advocacy and support of community participation in the search for durable solutions.

http://www.badil.org

(Added: Tue May 24 2005   Modified: Mon Mar 19 2007   Hits: 160)

Breaking down borders in Africa

Peace parks are a way for neighbouring countries to cooperate on a common concern - protecting biological diversity - by pulling down frontier fences in ecologically rich spots that straddle their shared border. (Tamar Kahn, SciDev Net, September 2003)

http://www.scidev.net/content/features/eng/breaking-down-borders-in-africa.cfm

(Added: Thu Mar 15 2007   Hits: 105)

Clean Clothes Campaign

The Clean Clothes Campaign is an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries. There is a Clean Clothes Campaign in 9 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The website includes information relating to working conditions in Export Processing Zones.

http://www.cleanclothes.org

(Added: Mon Mar 19 2007   Hits: 104)

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders is a non-governmental and not for profit organisation based at the International People's College in Elsinore, Denmark with branches in Palestine, Israel and Jordan. It applies the concept of cross-border dialogue with a focus on mutual learning and non-violent communication to Arab and Israeli youth in the Middle East, through various programmes, including a magazine written by and for aforementioned youth.

http://www.crossingborder.org

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Geography and Development in Africa: Overview and Implications for Regional Cooperation

Geography causes African countries to experience a 'proximity gap'. To overcome this gap a 'big push' may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport infrastructure, trade facilitation, decentralization and local economic development, and migration. Because incentives for regional cooperation in these aspects may not be symmetrical, commitments made may not be credible. Therefore, transport infrastructure at least should be bound in WTO rules on trade facilitation to provide third party enforcement (UNU-WIDER, September 2007).

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/discussion-papers/2007/en_GB/dp2007-03/

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humantrafficking.org

This web site brings Government and NGOs in the East Asia and Pacific together to cooperate and learn from each other's experiences in their efforts to combat human trafficking. The site has country-specific information such as national laws and action plans and contact information on useful governmental agencies. It also has a description of NGO activities in different countries and their contact information.

http://www.humantrafficking.org

(Added: Mon Mar 19 2007   Hits: 297)

Inside the detention centres

This section of the Australia-based Refugee Action Committee website covers news and information about the situation for asylum seekers and refugees inside Australia's detention centres, as well as in Nauru.

http://www.refugeeaction.org/inside/inside.htm

(Added: Mon Mar 19 2007   Hits: 129)

Legislative Violations of the Treaty of Waitangi

This timeline shows how Maori land ownership has diminished over the last 150 years, by way of the introduction of colonial legal provsions. (TWM)

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/Tr_violn.html

(Added: Thu Mar 15 2007   Hits: 110)

Living Space for Environmental Refugees

LiSER is an organisation that focuses on the identification and recognition of environmental refugees. LiSER was founded by people who are involved in refuge care, environmental organisations, human rights organisations and development agencies. The main goal of LiSER is to see these various organisations join together by broadening their original working goals and mandate to environmental refugees.

http://www.liser.org

(Added: Mon Mar 19 2007   Hits: 114)

Migration Information Source

The Migration Information Source provides data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends. The Source offers tools and information on the movement of people worldwide. The Migration Information Source is a project of the Migration Policy Institute.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/

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No More Deaths

Campaigning organsation working on the US/Mexico border to prevent deaths of migrants.

http://www.nomoredeaths.org/

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OHCHR and Migration

The position of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is that human rights are at the heart of migration and should be at the forefront of any discussion on migration management and policies. A comprehensive international framework exists and mechanisms have been created in order to monitor States' compliance in promoting and respecting human rights of migrants.

http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/migration/taskforce/index.htm

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Polluters must take in climate change refugees

Estimates predict that, by the 2080s, between 50 million and 200 million people will be displaced from their homes directly because of climate change. Those especially affected will be people in low-lying coastal areas of poorer countries that lack resources to protect themselves from rising sea levels. (Nature, 24 March 2005)

http://www.scidev.net/content/opinions/eng/polluters-must-take-in-climate-change-refugees.cfm

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Should we dump the North-South Lens?

The development community is visually challenged. Our analyses and policies are suspect because we do not see the world as it is, but how it used to be. We are half-blinded by our 50-year-old eyeglasses. (Jon Tinker, Panos Canada, July 2007).

http://www.id21.org/viewpoints/TinkerJuly07.html

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The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign

A national grassroots movement against the Apartheid Wall in Palestine, this campaign is coordinated by the Palestinian Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations Network (PENGON). The website contains useful updates, contacts and resource materials.

http://www.stopthewall.org

(Added: Thu Sep 22 2005   Modified: Thu Apr 05 2007   Hits: 183)

The Rural Development Institute

The Rural Development Institute is a nonprofit organization of attorneys helping the rural poor in developing countries obtain legal rights to land.

http://www.rdiland.org

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War on Want: Sweatshops & Plantations Programme

Across the developing world, hundreds of free trade zones have been created. Known as export processing zones (EPZs), they are industrial areas where, typically, factory owners pay no tax, the minimum wage is suspended and safety is neglected. Twelve-hour shifts are the norm and trade unions are often illegal. The organisation, War on Want, fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation.

http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=107

(Added: Mon Mar 19 2007   Hits: 109)

Whoseland

Whoseland is an interactive documentary website. By focusing on the unfolding story of land rights struggles, whoseland.com explores: land rights issues of relevance to all of us, our relationships with other cultures, the future of indigenous minority cultures, and custody of the land for future generations.

http://www.whoseland.com

(Added: Wed Mar 28 2007   Hits: 113)

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children works to improve the lives and defend the rights of refugee and internally displaced women, children and adolescents. We advocate for their inclusion and participation in programs of humanitarian assistance and protection. We provide technical expertise and policy advice to donors and organizations that work with refugees and the displaced. We make recommendations to policy makers based on rigorous research and information gathered on fact-finding missions. We join with refugee women, children and adolescents to ensure that their voices are heard from the community level to the highest councils of governments and international organizations. We do this in the conviction that their empowerment is the surest route to the greater well-being of all forcibly displaced people. The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children is an independent affiliate of the International Rescue Committee. The Commission was founded in 1989.

http://www.womenscommission.org/

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