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Diversity among refugee & IDP populations is often overlooked. Through its Age, Gender & Diversity Mainstreaming Strategy, UNHCR is working to ensure that persons of concern receive equal opportunities to access UNHCR services, regardless of age, sex & background. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the implementation of Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the mining sector in Burkina Faso. It highlights key lessons from a project funded by DFID and Save the Children UK and implemented by COBUFADE, a Burkinabe NGO. Children were found to be important and capable actors in the fight against child labour, notably in research and lobbying, and the article explores the role that civil society can play in taking local voices to national policy makers and in linking the different actors implicated in Convention 182. (InWent/DÜI)

Rapid and profound changes are taking place in international development. The past two decades have promoted the ideals of participation and partnership, yet key decisions affecting people's lives continue to be made without sufficient attention to the socio-political realities of the countries in which they live. Embedded working traditions, vested interests and institutional inertia mean that old habits and cultures persist among the development community. Planning continues as though it were free of unpredictable interactions among stakeholders. This book is about the need to recognise the

Includes indexes. ; "This book is a republication, with the modifications detailed in the author's preface, of the official report issued by the Manhattan district,' U.S. Corps of engineers (the name given by the War department to the Atomic bomb project)" [under title Atomic bombs]--P. [ii] ; "Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, U.S.A."--T.p. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; spec.: In original dust jacket.