This publication takes stock of past experience and demonstrates that there are many opportunities to invest in non-timber forest products in support of rural livelihoods and to promote better methods of enabling poor rural people, and especially women, to benefit from the sector.
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HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand signs on to UNIFEM’s Say NO to Violence against Women campaign at an official ceremony on 5 September 2008 to mark her designation as UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador in Thailand. HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand signs on to UNIFEM’s Say NO to Violence against Women campaign at an official ceremony on 5 September 2008 to mark her designation as UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador in Thailand.
Daughter of Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralo more...
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Before she sets out to visit her client Ms. Heluda in Kisian, Yvonne prepares a bag with a towel, multivitamin tablets, over-the-counter painkiller tablets, a packet of porridge flour, liquid detergent, hand gloves and soap. Then, she takes a bicycle taxi to Kisian village, 12 km away.
On her arrival at Ms. Heluda’s home Yvonne is met by three young children who are not in school today because their mother was too sick to get up this morning and has been too weak to cook for them, she is HIV- more...
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'The world has nearly two billion 10 to 24 year olds; of these, 86 percent live in developing countries. While much literature on young people's health focuses on the problems and risks they face, there is a great deal of evidence that most get through the transition to adulthood without significant behavioral, social, or emotional difficulties. In fact, among this age group, positive changes in overall health have clearly outweighed the negative changes. Society must harness the energies of you more...
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'IFC and the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie of Harvard University, have released a consultation draft of the research paper they commissioned on foreign direct investment and human rights. Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights aims to raise awareness of the relationship between protecting investor rights and the host state's human rights obligations under international agreements.
The publication examines the imp more...
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The Story
Background and context: Rural Uganda is a difficult place for women. Many women are the primary providers for households, either responsible for doing much of the agriculture work, or running a small business. Despite this role as providers, men, not women, usually have access to credit and local business exchanges.
The Uganda chapter of the Council for the Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa (CEEWA) tries to rectify this problem and help women find the financial resources t more...
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Information is a strategic variable in all negotiations. Those who have it enjoy a decisive advantage over those who do not have it in determining the outcome, not merely in business deals, but in all matters of governance. So, who should determine the outcome in terms of the quality of governance - the bureaucracy, a handful of Cabinet ministers or the population at large at the receiving end of bad governance? The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 gave an unequivocal answer: the power of more...
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