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guides: agriculture
How cash crops are keeping the world hungry.

guides: aid
Despite aid, a quarter of all people live in 'severe poverty'. Can 'good' aid help?

guides: aids
One epidemic for the rich and another, far worse, for the poor.

guides: arms
Small arms are the hardest to control and are the biggest killers.

guides: biodiversity
The diverse web of life upon which we depend is under threat everywhere.

guides: chemical and biological weapons
Can we prevent further use of the 'poor man's atom bomb'?

guides: child labour
Exploitation at its worst.

guides: child rights
Setting standards to defend children against neglect and abuse.

guides: climate change
It's happening but are we doing enough about it?

guides: consumerism
Consumption for the few, poverty for the many

guides: debt
Will the indebted countries ever throw off their debt chains?

guides: development
Alleviating the symptoms of poverty but not curing them.

guides: energy
Control, vested interest and grossly unequal consumption.

guides: ethical consumerism
Thoughtful buying - or not buying - can make a difference.

guides: fair trade
Putting your money where your mind is.

guides: fisheries

guides: gender
Boys 'will be boys' while girls suffer discrimination.

guides: genetic engineering
Are we the biotech companies' guinea pigs?

guides: genocide
Will the new International Criminal Court help to stop the killing?

guides: globalisation
A new kind of corporate colonialism?

guides: human rights
Standing up for both economic and political rights.

guides: imf and world bank
Playing the role of former colonial masters?

guides: immigration
Immigrants are often victims of racist violence and abuse.

guides: land rights
Not a shortage of land but a shortage of rights.

guides: landmines
Killing and maiming the innocent.

guides: MAI
Democracy, human rights and the environment under threat.

guides: media democracy Making our voices heard.

guides: nuclear power
An industry in decline as waste problems remain unsolved.

guides: nuclear weapons
How can we eliminate them?

guides: population
Replacing control with respect for reproductive rights.

guides: poverty
Is the clock turning backwards again?

guides: racism
Institutionalised prejudice and media misrepresentation.

guides: refugees
What makes them and who should be responsible for them?

guides: street children
Why are there over 100 million children living on the world's streets?

guides: structural adjustment programmes
What motives lie behind these poverty-causing strictures?

guides: TNCs
Do corporations rule the world?

guides: tourism
Is ecotourism the answer?

guides: trade
Doing more harm than good.

guides: united nations
Can it be restored to a position of political as well as moral authority?

guides: women's rights
Violence and the feminisation of poverty.

guides: world trade organisation
Ticket to world prosperity or Trojan horse in the citadel of international development?

 
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