New Publication

Reuters - After Cyclone Nargis, people travel in a boat past destroyed wharves at a port on a swollen river in Yangon, Myanmar.
Spring 2008
Although disasters are quick to strike, their consequences can be long to remedy and can linger on for months and years. The extent to which their effects increase inequalities in life and society is a question of how governments and humanitarian actors integrate human rights into their disaster preparedness and response. The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement has just published a new field manual designed to help relief workers understand the human rights dimensions of disaster response.
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Human Rights, Internal Displacement
Upcoming Event

Reuters/Jennifer Szymaszek - Mexican Indian coffee-picker collects beans near Tuzamapa. Juarez earns about $2 per day for the work.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Washington, DC
The Wolfensohn Center for Development will host a discussion with Santiago Levy, nonresident senior fellow and former deputy minister of finance of Mexico. Along with a panel of leading experts, Levy will discuss his new book, which recommends that in order to help bring Mexico’s poor out of poverty the country’s social programs should be improved to increase productivity, workers’ wages, and overall economic growth.
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Latin America Growth and Development, Mexico, Economic Development, Developing Countries, Development
SPOTLIGHT: Pakistan

Reuters/Jerry Lampen - A supporter shouts anti-Musharraf slogans during a rally of the Pakistan's All Parties Democratic Movement in Lahore
Bruce Riedel, May 06, 2008
Pakistan, as the most dangerous country in the world, poses a major challenge for the next U.S. president. Bruce Riedel argues in this new Opportunity 08 paper that the current administration’s policy toward Pakistan has not paid off. The next president, he says, must persuade the Pakistani people that "America supports democracy in their country and can be a long-term and reliable ally."
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Pakistan, India, Transnational Security Threats, Terrorism, South Asia