A Search engine. UNHCR Documentation Centre's website. Lots of refugee and other documents.
In 2003 we started to undertake a project we had long talked about and planned, namely to record visually the recollections and views of some of the individual scholars and practitioners who initiated the field of conflict analysis and peace research in the 1950s and 1960s....
Many of…
A site with a large number of links to resources, including the papers of the 2011 International Conference on Global Land Grabbing..."FAC has been exploring what needs to be done to get different forms of agriculture – food/cash crops, livestock/pastoralism, smallholdings/contract farming/…
For IDP material (from 2002), scroll down to IDPs and choose a year....very useful and well-researched and written reports.
Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION
7 Background setting of Myanmar forest, people and the country 7
Scope and coverage 7
Key questions/issues 8
The process (methodology) 8
Structure of the report 8
2. THE ROLE OF THE FORESTRY SECTOR IN MYANMAR
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Our Mission:
A global alliance of civil society and intergovernmental organisations working together to promote secure and equitable access to and control over land for poor women and men through advocacy, dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building...
Our Vision:
Secure…
Biome: Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests...
Size: 5,900 square miles...
Conservation Status: Critical/Endangered...
G200: No...
Introduction:
"In 1929 the Burma Game Manual stated its guiding principle: "A countryside devoid of wildlife is…
Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide"..."In Burma, the Solidarity Center supports union efforts to expose the government's criminal and systematic worker rights violations, promote and protect migrant worker rights, and sow the seeds of democracy."..."In Thailand, the…
Stand on the Shan Plateau, and you'll see mountains everywhere, stretching far and wide. Under your feet lies rocky soil rich with silver, rubies, and sapphires. But the real gem here is Lake Inle. One of Myanmar's few freshwater lakes, Inle contains many unique species of fish.
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