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		<title>Human Rights-Based Approaches and EU Development Aid Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Despite increased use of human rights language, a range of key EU development policies do not coherently or consistently reflect the applicable international human rights framework. Weaknesses include substitution of legally precise human rights terminology with vague formulations of language; misrepresenting the relationship between policy commitments such as the Millennium Development Goals and the legal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&blog=3197161&post=147&subd=developmenthumanrights&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed Unrest!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated         to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar         nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise         the largest movement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&blog=3197161&post=145&subd=developmenthumanrights&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unnatural calamities are  not natural</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/unnatural-calamities-are-not-natural/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conscience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swine Flu is spreading around. Tamil tigers are killed mercilessly as if cleansing virus by antibiotics, wild fires are burning forests and civilization into ashes, swat refugee crisis and killing field, repression and killings in Burma, North Korea nuclear enrichment, militants and rebels in Africa are getting aggressive out of frustration,Taliban and Islamic militants are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&blog=3197161&post=141&subd=developmenthumanrights&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visionaries In Our Midst</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Visionaries In Our Midst: Ordinary People who are Changing our World&#8221; is Allison Silberberg’s inspiring collection of essays that profiles ordinary people who are changing our world. Silberberg shares the stories of individuals who identified critical needs in their communities and responded with courage and conviction.
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		<title>Responsibility to protect: translating ideas into capacity by Douglas Wilson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, the World Summit endorsed the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle, which reconceives of state sovereignty as the responsibility to protect citizens from human rights atrocities, and most controversially, endorses international intervention as a last resort if states fail or refuse to comply with that responsibility.
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		<title>Are rights-based approaches the way forward for conservation?</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/are-rights-based-approaches-the-way-forward-for-conservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The links between the realisation of human rights and the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity are receiving increasing attention worldwide. Experience has demonstrated that exclusionary approaches to conservation can undermine those same rights of affected communities and can undermine conservation objectives.
The ‘rights-based approaches’ (RBAs) to conservation presented in this document offer a number of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&blog=3197161&post=131&subd=developmenthumanrights&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT: MAKING CONNECTIONS, Edited by Pablo de Greiff and Roger Duthie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing societies emerging from conflict and authoritarianism are frequently beset by poverty, inequality, weak institutions and insecurity. The same countries are also often the scene of massive human rights violations, which leave in their wake victims who are marginalized &#8211; people who have strong claims to justice. Yet those who work to address the interconnected [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&blog=3197161&post=126&subd=developmenthumanrights&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2009 Failed States Index &#124; Foreign Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Failed States Index &#124; Foreign Policy
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		<title>Oxfam activists pose as ancient Romans in masks of G8 heads of state in Rome</title>
		<link>http://developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/oxfam-activists-pose-as-ancient-romans-in-masks-of-g8-heads-of-state-in-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rubayat Ahsan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Two million people live in a human rights black hole in the slums of Nairobi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International released its report on Friday, into the dire conditions and gross human rights abuses endured in Nairobi&#8217;s informal settlements. The Unseen Majority: Nairobi&#8217;s Two Million Slum Dwellers describes how half of Nairobi&#8217;s population live in informal settlements, but are crammed into only 5 per cent of the city’s residential area and just 1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=developmenthumanrights.wordpress.com&blog=3197161&post=110&subd=developmenthumanrights&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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