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Ending Violence Against Women: A Challenge for Development and Humanitarian Work

Author:  Pickup, Francine; Williams, Suzanne; Sweetman, Caroline Publisher:  Oxf ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:50

Communicating for Development: Human Change for Survival

Author:  Fraser, Colin and Sonia Restrepo-Estrada Issue:  ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:18

The Sahel: The People's Right To Development

Author:  Cross, Nigel Issue:  Volume 1, Number ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:30

Introduction: development, children, and protection

This paper introduces the special issue. It first places the protection of children in the context of development studies. It goes on to outline current international trends in the protection of children and raises questions about them. Finally, it intr ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:54

UN contributions to development thinking and practice

This brief article highlights some major contributions made by the United Nations to development thinking and practice from 1945 to 2000. The term 'development' is used here broadly to refer not only to increases in economic growth and per capita income a ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:43

Family tracing: in whose interests?

This article is based on research commissioned by Save the Children Fund (SCF) into five family-tracing programmes in five African countries. The author describes the stages involved in tracing the families of children, and highlights the efforts that mus ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:54

Where Women Have No Doctor

In the context of inequity which makes achieving `health for all' extremely difficult, Where Women Have No Doctor attempts to give access to health information to those who lack it. The authors applaud the book, and stress that there is great need for thi ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Development, racism, and discrimination in the Dominican Republic

From an analysis of recent empirical research in the Dominican Republic, this article addresses the ways in which racism underpins elements of governance and explores organisational and individual responses to racialised discrimination initiated by the st ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07

Transforming public space: a local radio’s work in a poor urban community

Among processes towards democratisation, it has been asserted that alternative radio has a central role in the citizen making of the poor. However, it is important to analyse in detail what possibilities an alternative or citizens’ radio has to st ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 11:33

Key Issues in Development

Author:  Kingsbury, Damien, Joe Remenyi, John McKay and Janet Hunt Publisher:  L ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:48