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The Future of NATO

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In this Council Special Report, James M. Goldgeier takes on the question of how NATO, having successfully kept the peace in Europe in the twentieth century, can adapt to the challenges of the twenty-first. Goldgeier contends that NATO retains value for the United States and Europe. He writes, though, that it must expand its vision of collective defense in order to remain relevant and effective. This means recognizing the full range of threats that confront NATO members today and affirming that more...

Added by Zunia on March 18, 2010

'Afghanistan: Where Things Stand' Data Presented at CSIS

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VIENNA, Virginia, March 16, 2010- The results of the January ABC New broadcast series “Afghanistan: Where Things Stand” were presented at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on March 12th by Gary Langer, Polling Director for ABC News. The broadcast draws substantially on public opinion data gathered in Afghanistan by ACSOR-Surveys, a D3 Systems subsidiary. Langer presented in-depth results of the network’s fifth national public opinion poll in Afghanistan, conducted Dec. more...

Added by Nelson Gunter on March 17, 2010

Mediation Ten Years On: Challenges and Opportunities for Peacemaking

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For much of the past ten years, the international climate was not favourable to diplomacy on the grand scale. It also complicated the practice of mediation, even as mediation activity has increased. The United States led serious diplomatic efforts in attempts to settle conflicts in Sudan and North Korea, and provided direct support to a variety of other processes, but a prioritising force in the most prominent of the United States’ international engagements, beginning but not ending in Iraq, more...

Added by Zunia on March 17, 2010

Occupied Palestinian Territory: Why Violence Against Women is Widespread

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Nahla, aged 30, from Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, said she was physically and mentally abused for more than 10 years by her husband before being granted a divorce three months ago. Fear and cultural factors prevented her from seeking help from women’s organizations. “I never tried to go to the police to complain about my husband's criminal acts, because he threatened to kill me if I did,” Nahla told IRIN. “And I never went to complain to any women’s rights organizations because I didn’t more...

Added by Zunia on March 17, 2010

India’s govt performance guru delivers key speech

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It is nine months since the Government of India announced a plan to overhaul the way it measures how well its departments are serving the public. The man behind that plan is Dr Prajapati Trivedi, a former economist at the World Bank and now the Indian government’s Chief Performance Officer, who will reveal how India is living up to its performance pledge in a speech at the FutureGov Forum India in New Delhi next month (April 7-8th 2010)..

Added by Diana Jumaat on March 17, 2010

Australian Uni takes bold steps into cloud

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Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia is deploying a private cloud which will be operational by mid this year. CIO Peter Nikoletatos told FutureGov of the challenges he faces and the rewards he expects from migrating into the cloud..

Added by Diana Jumaat on March 17, 2010

Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2009

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The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database now contains information on all international transfers of major conventional weapons from 1950 to the end of 2009. It is the only publicly available resource providing consistent data on international arms transfers for this length of time. This Fact Sheet describes the trends that are revealed by the new data.The volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons for the period 2005–2009 is 22 per cent higher than for the period 2000–2004. Combat more...

Added by Zunia on March 17, 2010

2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

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The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, and section 504 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.This 2009 annual report covers internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 194 countries.

Added by Zunia on March 17, 2010

Social Profile and Human Rights of Domestic Workers in Cairo

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The aim of the survey is to gather demographic details and inquire about their work circumstances and human rights issues arising.

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

Human Rights in China: Trends and Policy Implications

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humansecuritygateway.com -

This report analyzes China’s mixed record on human rights – major human rights issues, PRC human rights legislation, and the development of civil society, legal awareness, and social and political activism. This report discusses major areas of interest but does not provide an exhaustive account of all human rights abuses or related incidents. Fear of social unrest appears to be a large factor behind the PRC government’s resistance toward major political reform. The PRC government has attempted more...

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

Topic Guide on Conflict

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humansecuritygateway.com -

This extensive topic guide provides an overview of key topics ranging from the causes, dynamics and impacts of conflict to options for interventions to prevent, manage and respond to conflict. It is divided into five main parts: -- Chapter 1, ‘Understanding violent conflict’, discusses the causes, dynamics and impact of violent conflict, and profiles tools for conflict analysis and conflict sensitive development. Chapter 2, ‘Living in conflict affected areas: focus on women, children and more...

Added by Zunia on March 16, 2010

Development, Security and Transitions in Fragile States

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State fragility, conflict, violence and political instability are among the key challenges facing the international community today. There is growing consensus that traditional interventions and ‘business as usual’ are no longer viable in fragile states. Innovative approaches to promoting development and humanitarian action are needed, integrating wider security, governance and legitimacy concerns, at the heart of which lie questions of power and politics.This meeting series brought together an more...

Added by Zunia on March 15, 2010

Report on Security Sector Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean

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The goal of this report is to contribute to an understanding of the political and institutional processes taking place in Latin America related to the security sector since the region's wide-scale return to democracy. The development of a systematic vision of the multiple institutions linked to the sector is one of the remaining tasks in the process of democratic consolidation in the region. Yet, it notes that advances in this area have been uneven on both a thematic and territorial level. more...

Added by Zunia on March 15, 2010

Going all-out for human rights and sexual health - Aiming for results in Burkina Faso

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Officially launched in January 2004, the German-Burkinabe Sexual Health and Human Rights Programme (PROSAD) was chosen for write-up in the German HIV Practice Collection because, over the years, it has become a uniquely sustained, comprehensive and results-driven effort to protect and empower women, youth and children. It has helped raise their own and public awareness of their human rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, and has provided them with a range of services and more...

Added by Zunia on March 15, 2010

Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons

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Displacement is a life-changing event. While the often traumatic experience of displacement cannot be undone, internally displaced persons (IDPs) need to be able to resume a normal life by achieving a durable solution. As articulated in principle 28 of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, IDPs have a right to a durable solution and often need assistance in their effortsThe present Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons aims to provide clarity on the concept more...

Added by Zunia on March 15, 2010

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