Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
The Charter of the United Nations is based on the principles of the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings, and that all Member States have pledged themselves to take joint and separate act...
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25/06/2001
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Human Rights, Equity, Living Conditions
The new wealth of nations
The past decade was probably the most exuberant period of wealth creation in human history. It also produced an unprecedented number of wealthy people. Despite the recent disappearance of some well-kn...
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25/06/2001
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Economic Development, Equity, Living Conditions, Advocacy
Does inequality matter?
The new rich may worry about envy, but everyone should worry about poverty "It's the same the whole world over, It's the poor wot gets the blame. It's the rich wot gets the pleasure..." What would the...
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25/06/2001
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50334, Poverty, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Giving something back
"The rich are getting increasingly active in philanthropy and the political world. The political side is more difficult and less important than what is going on in philanthropy." The Boston study expe...
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25/06/2001
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Fund Raising, Advocacy
Exploring the biological contributions to human health does sex matter?
The explosion in the growth of new biological information over the past decade has made it increasingly apparent that many normal physiological functions-and, in many cases, pathological functions-are...
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21/06/2001
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Health Equity, Equity, Living Conditions
Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report
Although average mortality has fallen over the past 50 years, unacceptable inequalities in health persist. For many measures of health, inequalities have either remained the same or have widened in re...
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21/06/2001
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Evidence-Based Medicine, Measuring, Methods and Indicators, Equity, Living Conditions
Poverty reduction strategies (PRSP)
Interactive is learning tool on participatory processes at the national level for the Poverty Reduction Strategy and other government strategies and actions to reduce poverty. It is currently under de...
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21/06/2001
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Poverty, World Stretegies, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Beyond acceptability: user's perspectives on contraception
It presents some papers which explore conceptualissues, review the existing literature, examine some methods, elucidate how and why women and men make choices and decisions to protect themselves, and ...
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19/06/2001
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Contraception, Contraception Behavior, Contraceptive Devices, Contraceptive Agents, Vasectomy, Condoms, Choice Behavior, Anais de congresso
The State of The World's Cities Report 2001
Three billion people - nearly every other person on earth - already live in cities. Today the planet hosts 19 cities with 10 million or more people; 22 cities with 5 to 10 million people; 370 cities w...
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19/06/2001
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Urbanization, Demography, Urban Population, Poverty, 32463, Advocacy, Equity, Living Conditions
Dictionary of cancer terms
It defines terms related to cancer and drugs (from 10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterin to zosuquidar trihydrochloride).
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13/06/2001
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Neoplasms/drug therapy, Antineoplastic Agents, Reference Books, Medical Oncology, Dicionário [tipo de publicação]
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