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The Illusion of Progress: Unsustainable Development in International Law and Policy

Author: Gillespie, Alexander Publisher: London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 8538 ...

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

Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Author: Hodgkin, Rachel and Peter Newell for UNICEF Issue: ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 13:05

We Are The Original People: The Story of a Development Project in an Adivasi (Tribal) Village in South Gujarat, India

Author: Clarke, Marieke Issue: Volume 3, Num ...

Book review - admin - 2009-12-17 12:44

More practical lessons from five projects on disability-inclusive development

The present article follows on from the practical note in Development in Practice 20(7): 879–886 that looked at seven common early lessons learnt from the inclusion of disabled people in World Vision programming work across four countries, based o ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-08 13:07

Rights-based approaches to development: what is the value-added?

Advocates and activists for human rights are currently facing a paradox: the coexistence of profound challenges in familiar territory (civil liberties) alongside expansion into new areas. Rights-based approaches (RBAs) are a part of this latter expansiona ...

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

The ethics of immigration controls: issues for development NGOs

It can be argued that immigration restrictions constitute a form of 'global apartheid', ensuring that poorer sections of world society are prevented, by legal and physical force, from sharing in the world's sum of riches. This article seeks to develop thi ...

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

Electronic information: promise and peril

With reference to a recent visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh, the author gives his personal view on the spread of IT technology that accompanies globalisation. He comments particularly on the communication potential of the Internet and email, and the tendency of ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01

Violence, fear, and development in Latin America: a critical overview

This introduction presents the core concepts that shape this special issue on the impact of violence and the processes of development in Central and South America. The understanding of development is considered in terms broader than the economic context a ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06

Moved to act: communication supporting HIV social movements to achieve inclusive social change

Social movements have generated interest in development circles since the mid-1990s as relatively independent expressions of civil society, mobilising people to set their own development priorities and agendas for issues as diverse as water privatisatio ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 13:38

When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda