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Ecology and Community

In our attempts to build and nurture sustainable communities we can learn valuable lessons from ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. In over four billion years of evolution, ecosystems have developed the most intricate and subtle ways of organizing themselves so as to maximize sustainability (Ecoliteracy, Fritjof Capra).

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/pdf/community.pdf

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Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development

In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on gender justice to debates on citizenship, entitlements, and law and development. A concluding chapter situates the discussion of gender justice, citizenship, and entitlements in current development debates on poverty alleviation and social exclusion. The book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading feminist scholars of sociology, political science and legal studies, among others, and in doing so, provides new insights for both advocacy and research (Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Navsharan Singh, Zubaan/IDRC, 2007).

http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/339-3/

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International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

New Zealand's report has been given to the committee for consideration. This is the Advance Unedited Version whereby the UN committee commends NZ on certain policy initiatives but also sites recommendations of ways in which NZ can improve their report and race relations in NZ.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/CERD71-Obs.pdf

(Added: Tue Aug 21 2007   Hits: 167)

Leftwing activists flock to Venezuela to soak up the socialist 'revolution

Like Havana, Cuba, and Chiapas, Mexico, before it, Caracas draws liberals from around the world who want to experience Hugo Chavez's experiment in socialism (Christian Science Monitor, 25 March 2008).

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0325/p20s01-woam.html

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Psychological and subjective wellbeing: a proposal for internationally comparable indicators

Recent years have seen a wealth of research on subjective wellbeing. There have also been growing calls for some variant of happiness to be adopted as a policy goal in developing and developed countries. This paper argues that while the emphasis on subjective wellbeing is an important topic, its current usage tends to blur many conceptual differences between happiness and satisfaction, and largely overlooks more robust measures of psychological wellbeing.

http://www.ophi.org.uk/pubs/Samman_Psych_Subj_Wellbeing_Final.pdf

(Added: Thu Nov 08 2007   Hits: 136)

The intersection of caste and women's rights in India

An article from AWID on caste and gender discrimination in India (Rochelle Jones, AWID, 26 October 2007)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/AWID%20Friday%20File.doc

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Using Edutainment to Reach Sexual Minority People [pdf]

This paper shares the experience of producing two multidisciplinary communication projects that aim to raise awareness and discussion around lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTI) rights, health, and HIV/AIDS. (by Tonya Graham, CMFD Productions, April 2008)

http://www.cmfd.org/cmfdpubs/usingedutainmenttoreachsexualminoritypeople.pdf

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Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution at a Turning Point

With the surprising loss of the constitutional reform referendum in December (by a minimal vote difference of 1.3%) Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution reached a turning point. The April 2002 coup attempt, the December 2002 shutdown of the oil industry and the August 2004 recall referendum represented major defeats for the opposition and a radicalisation ofthe Bolivarian process. But the failed reform was quite different: it was the first defeat for the Bolivarian movement, after 12 national electoral contests,since Hugo Chávez was elected in 1998, [1] and the first time that he and his movement had been forced to examine which way the process must go if it is to advance (10 January 2008).

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1080/1/

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Women Politicians, Gender Bias, and Policy-making in Rural India

Background paper for the UNICEF 'State of the World's Children Report 2007' (UNICEF, December 2006).

http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/docs/beaman_duflo_pande_topalova.pdf

(Added: Fri Sep 28 2007   Hits: 125)

You Are What You Grow: Will This Year's Farm Bill Make Us Fatter and Sicker?

A look into America's obesity problem and the Farm Bill that supports it (Ecoliteracy, Michael Pollan, 2007)

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/michael_pollan_farm_bill.html

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