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- Self-determination in practice: the critical making of indigenous media
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The article examines the notion of development as self-determination in the context of current politicisation of indigenous peoples’ affairs. It looks at the links between development studies, indigenous social movements, and community media pract ...
Abstract - anna - 2009-10-01 16:58
- Empowerment and survival: humanitarian work in civil conflict (Part II)
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This two-part article explores the experience of living and working for poverty-focused NGOs in a civil war whose roots lay in the chronically inequitable distribution of power and access to resources. Drawing on 12 years' work in Central America, the aut ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:57
- Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil
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Although the emphasis in current thinking about work with street children has changed from aid-dependency towards youth protagonism, many organisations ignore the role of the children’s families in their interventions. In so doing, they reproduce obsolete ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Indigenous Peple, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
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Author: Hall, Gillette and Harry Anthony Patrinos (eds.) Publisher: Basingstok ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:21
- Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future
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The author gives a personal view of her experiences in Guatemala in 1995, when she met with human-rights workers coping with the aftermath, and ongoing trauma, of the 36-year war. She describes the fear and disruption brought about by so many years of mil ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Menchú Tum, Stoll, and martyrs of solidarity
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Civil society and grassroots campaigns are increasingly affecting foreign policy. Some of these campaigns are driven by solidarity groups in the North, who are in solidarity with a struggle in the South. This paper looks at the role of the martyr as a mot ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- International NGOs and unions in the South: worlds apart or allies in the struggle?
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In the early 1980s, support for trade unions was a significant component of Oxfam GB's programmes in various parts of the world, most notably Central America and South Africa. In Central America, this was motivated both because organised labour played an ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Mobilising for Human Rights in Latin America
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Author: Cleary, Edward Publisher: Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press, 2007, ISBN: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 09:01
- Hurricane Mitch and human rights
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When Hurricane Mitch hit South America in November 1998, it most harshly affected Honduras and Nicaragua, and most of those affected were already living in extreme poverty. The author highlights the connection between the extent of the damage from this `n ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- Never the twain shall meet? Women's organisations and trade unions in the maquila industry in Central America
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The garment and textile factories and assembly plants in the Central American free trade zones, known as the maquila industry, have given rise to new actors on the labour scene, as women's organisations and local monitoring groups now work alongside the t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
