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Author: Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2006-06-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9789287158154

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The Implementation of Quotas
The Implementation of Quotas

Author: Julie Ballington

Publisher: International IDEA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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This report examines women's political representation on the African continent, and shows how quotas have contributed to increasing their access to political power. The documented evidence from Africa is very encouraging: more than 20 countries on the continent either have legislated quotas or have political parties that have adopted them voluntarily. This report details the different quota types that are being implemented in different political contexts in 17 countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Handbook
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Handbook

Author: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9789292190316

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This handbook provides an overview of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as of August 2006. It focuses on the institutional framework of the Convention and the actions taken by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

Fighting Poverty in Africa
Fighting Poverty in Africa

Author: David Booth

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on the evidence from seven countries of sub-Saharan Africa, explores the anti-poverty effects of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) which were introduced in late 1999 as a device to help ensure the proper use of debt relief under the Enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries facility (HIPC2).

Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism

Author: F. Schweitzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-11-03

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 140397912X

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In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that anti-semites have propagated throughout the centuries. Beginning with antiquity, and continuing into the present day, the authors explore the irrational fabrications that have led to numerous acts of violence and hatred against Jews. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of anti-semitism: Jews as 'Christ-killers', instruments of Satan, and ritual murderers of Christian children. It also explores the scapegoating of Jews in the modern world as conspirators bent on world domination; extortionists who manufactured the Holocaust as a hoax designed to gain reparation payments from Germany; and the leaders of the slave trade that put Africa in chains. No other book has focused its attention exclusively on a thematic discussion of historic and contemporary anti-semitic myths, covering such an expansive scope of time, and allowing for such a painstaking level of exemplification. Anti-semitism is an essential book that will serve as a corrective to bigotry, stereotype, and historical distortion.

The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework
The African Union: Legal and Institutional Framework

Author: Abdulqawi A. Yusuf

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2012-01-20

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9004227725

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This work is an introduction to the origins, law and institutions of the African Union (AU). It examines the evolution, structures, legal standards and operational activities of this Pan-African organization, which replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU) 10 years ago. Although the AU came into being in 2001, so far there is no comprehensive work which addresses the institution, its organs and structures, the scope of its operations, its legal framework and the normative standards underpinning its objectives and functions or those underlying the conventions, charters and protocols it has enacted or inherited from its predecessor, the OAU. It is the aim of this work to fill that void. It has been conceived as a manual, and not as a scholarly treatise, so as to serve as a basic introduction to the institutional and legal framework of the AU and its affiliated organizations. It is meant to offer a concise and clear picture of the nature and workings of a continental institution aimed not only at promoting peace and unity in Africa but also at ensuring human security, development, human rights protection and good governance for the peoples of Africa.