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Gender and Development: basic concepts

... impacts and to ensure sustainability. When we talk about Gender Equality, we are referring to a combination of legal equality and ... including opportunities to speak out. More often, this is about making better opportunities in all of these areas for women.  ...

Story - carolyn - 10/22/2014 - 07:20 - 0 attachments

In brief...DTE 84, March 2010

... the anxiety of their colleagues from developing countries about the future of small-scale fishery. Red tape and complex regulations are ...

Story - carolyn - 12/13/2010 - 19:38 - 0 attachments

West Papua: National Dialogue - to what end?

... will be relinquished by Jakarta. It also means that talks about West Papua's future, whatever wording is chosen for the agenda, may well ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:24 - 0 attachments

West Papua: Independence and exploitation

... guarantee the unity of the Indonesian republic and warned about creating a "state within a state". This stance sets President Wahid ... leaders are demanding that Jakarta sits down and talks about independence with them. Even members of the provincial government - whose ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:22 - 0 attachments

Newmont mine closure overruled

... complaint that local people make against Newmont is not about taxes, but about the water pollution which affects the livelihoods of local fishing ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

Poverty and the price of rice

Concerns about food security worldwide are growing as rice prices have more than doubled ... Down to Earth No. 76-77 May 2008 Concerns about food security worldwide are growing as rice prices have more than doubled ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

The organic movement

... and Sintesa in North Sumatra are trying to air the debate about agriculture in public whilst organising practical projects with farmers' ... but there is an ongoing dialogue with neighbouring farmers about the merits of organic farming and co-operative selling that we want to ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

Stop human rights violations against peasant farmers!

... lawyers reported that they dared not ask Atar Pasaribu about his injuries in front of the police." (AI Commentary on Indonesia's ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:18 - 0 attachments

Indigenous Peoples force suspension of Jakarta aid meeting

... that the Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme would bring about forestry reform, but were now "disappointed, sad, angry and concerned" ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:17 - 0 attachments

New plantation law - more land conflicts predicted

... it: "Judging by its primary objectives of bringing about fairness to farmers/smallholders, enhancing sustainable ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:15 - 0 attachments