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Oxfam, Amnesty International, and the IANSA have together launched an international campaign calling for effective arms controls to make people genuinely safer from the threat of armed violence. This volume provides hard-hitting analysis of how abuse of small arms across the world is fuelling poverty and suffering.

This book shows that building public services in developing countries is central to poverty eradication. It also considers the role of governments, donors, private sector and civil society in the provision of basic services, With case studies from around the world, this book is the next step in discovering more of what you need to know.

Exporting governments must apply an effective and systematic methodology to assess whether proposed arms transfers will affect sustainable development. This report proposes such a methodology, and explains why, excepting legitimate security needs, arms transfers with an adverse impact on sustainable development must not go ahead.

Oxfam's campaign, Make Trade Fair, aims to change world trade rules so that trade can make a real difference in the fight against global poverty. This report gives comprehensive research findings and analysis, presenting a powerful case for changes in trade laws, and a reform agenda to make these changes happen.

This report reveals the double standards at the heart of the corporate practices that are emerging under globalisation. Companies' demands for faster, more flexible, and cheaper production in their supply chains are undermining the very labour standards that they claim to be promoting. Women workers - and their families - pay the price.

The time for action is running out. 2005 offered an historic opportunity for rich countries to make good on their promises to finance the MDGs effectively.In 2005 the Global Call for Action Against Poverty told world leaders that this injustice is not inevitable: they can make poverty history - if they act now.

European Union asylum policy is shifting overseas. The politicisation of asylum-related issues and the desire to manage migration are the forces behind a wave of new internationalised initiatives which could have a serious impact on the lives of refugees.