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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Indonesia

    This study was aimed at analysing land cover and land use dynamics, and at identifying and evaluating the driving forces behind deforestation, by relating population dynamics, village distribution patterns and socio-economic indicators with spatial aspects of land cover changes. It also aimed at knowing the conditions of the local people, their opinions and aspirations regarding conservation. A land re-allocation model for agricultural land and protection forest, as an approach to solving the problem was established

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2002
    Timor-Leste

    From Cambodia to Kosovo, and now East Timor, the United Nations has undertaken broad governmental functions in an effort to ensure that peace is maintained after the departure of the peacekeepers. On its face, these “peace-building” missions have a powerful logic. Brokering a peace, but leaving behind a vacuum in institutional capacity, only encourages the return of conflict after the peacekeepers leave. Providing urgent humanitarian relief, but failing to integrate it with development aid, ignores the way that development assists in preventing future humanitarian crises.

  3. Library Resource
    Eau et agriculture

    Produire plus avec moins d'eau

    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Kenya, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Philippines, Bangladesh, Iran, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Qatar

    l'eau - source de sécurité alimentaire Journée mondiale de l'alimentation: 16 octobre 2002

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2002
    Myanmar

    Important, authoritative and timely report.
    I. THAI GOVERNMENT CLASSIFICATION FOR PEOPLE FROM BURMA:

    Temporarily Displaced; Students and Political Dissidents ; Migrants .

    II. BRIEF PROFILE OF THE MIGRANTS FROM BURMA .

    III REASONS FOR LEAVING BURMA :

    Forced Relocations and Land Confiscation ;
    Forced Labor and Portering;

    War and Political Oppression;

    Taxation and Loss of Livelihood;

    Economic Conditions .

    IV. FEAR OF RETURN.

    V. RECEPTION CENTERS.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2002
    Myanmar

    GENERAL HEALTH:
    Overview of Landmine Problems in Myanmar (Michiyo Kato &Yeshua Moser-Puangswan, NIV SEA);
    Basic Information about Landmines (Htun Htun Oo, TCFB);
    Trauma Care Foundation Burma (Htun Htun Oo, TCFB);
    Chain of Survival (Htun Htun Oo, TCFB);
    Mine Injuries and Their Management (Htun Htun Oo, TCFB)...
    FROM THE FIELD:
    Orthopaedic Programme of the ICRC-Myanmar (Marco Emery, ICRC, Myanmar);
    Data Collection on Mine Victims and the Impact of Landmines (Christophe Tiers, HI);

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2002
    Myanmar

    In January 2002 it appeared that the SPDC considered most of Dooplaya district of southern Karen State to be pacified and under their control. But then Light Infantry Division 88 was sent in and commenced Operation Than L'Yet, forcibly relocating as many as 60 villages by July. Villagers were rounded up and detained without food for days, or force-marched to Army-controlled relocation sites after their houses were burned. Village heads, women and children were tortured.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2002
    Myanmar

    This article appeared in Burma - Women's Voices for Change, Thanakha Team, Bangkok, published by ALTSEAN in 2002... "...Unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are problems that many Burmese women face with little support and a poverty of health resources. Of course it is difficult to quantify such statements in light of the limited sharing of information that occurs between the Burman military government and the rest of the world.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2002
    Myanmar

    Perhaps one million people living in the States and Divisions of Burma adjacent to the Thailand border have been displaced since 1996. At least 150,000 have fled as refugees or joined the huge “illegal” migrant population in Thailand.[2] Countless others have moved away to other villages and towns in Burma.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2002
    Myanmar

    Homeowners in Rangoon's Kamaryut Township were told by military officials last week to evacuate their homes by April 5 or face arrest. The residents were not given any reasons for the forced relocation nor have they been offered any compensation thus far, Kamaryut residents told The Irrawaddy...

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