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30 March 2001:
Population Action International has published the report of a comparative study called "A World of Difference: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Risks", which is made available online at:
http://www.populationaction.org/worldofdifference/rr2_introduction.htm
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29 March 2001:
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the "Global Tuberculosis Report 2001", which is made available as a series of PDF-files at:
http://www.who.int/gtb/publications/globrep01/download.html
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28 March 2001:
The World Bank has published the report "Aid and Reform in Africa. Lessons from 10 Case Studies", which is made available online as a series of PDF-files at:
http://www.worldbank.org/research/aid/africa/release/aid.htm
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28 March 2001:
Human Rights Watch has published the report "Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools", which is made available online at:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/safrica/
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21 March 2001:
The Public Health Association of British Columbia (Canada) has made available a publication from 1999 on "Action for change. A workbook for communities", which is accessible as a PDF-file (roughly 615KB) at:
http://www.phabc.org/Workbook.pdf
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17 March 2001:
Rio +10: World Summit on Sustainable Development will take place in 2002. It is organized by the United Nations. The documents for the first preparatory meeting (30 April-2 May 2001) have now been made available online as a series of PDF-files at:
http://www.un.org/rio+10/web_pages/prepcom1docslist.htm
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17 March 2001:
UNDP has published the report "Choices for the poor", which is made available online in English, French, and Spanish as a series of PDF-files at:
http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/choicesforpoor/ENGLISH/index.html
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14 March 2001:
Amnesty International has launched a global campaign "Stamp out torture", through which a report on "Stopping the torture trade" has been published which is available as a series of PDF-files at:
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/index/ACT400022001?OpenDocument#download
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14 March 2001:
Jeffrey Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger and John L. Gallup: "Why are some countries stupendously rich and others horrendously poor?" is available online as a PDF-file (roughly 1.07MB) at:
http://www2.cid.harvard.edu/cidpapers/tropics_eha-l.pdf
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13 March 2001:
The WHO Representative to Indonesia has published the "Report of the ASEAN Workshop on the TRIPS (=Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement and its impact on Pharmaceuticals, May 2000", which is made available online as a PDF-file (roughly 970KB) at:
http://www.who.or.id/currentevent/Drugs/Trips%20Agreement.pdf
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8 March 2001:
The World Bank has published the report "Engendering Development - Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice", the summary of which is available as a PDF-file (roughly 90KB) at:
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/prr/summary.pdf
19 background papers for the report are accessible as PDF-files at:
http://www.worldbank.org/gender/prr/wp.htm
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8 March 2001:
Amnesty International has published the report "Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill-Treatment of Women", which is made available online as a PDF-file (roughly 160KB) at:
http://www.amnesty-usa.org/stoptorture/women/brokenbodies.pdf
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8 March 2001:
The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has published the report "Early marriages: child spouses", which is made available as a PDF-file (roughly 470KB) at:
http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/digest7e.pdf
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2 March 2001:
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health (USA), has published a draft report on "Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health", which is made available online as a PDF-file (roughly 400KB) at:
http://obssr.od.nih.gov/Conf_Wkshp/higherlevel/sociocultural-draft.pdf
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2 March 2001:
The Institute of Medicine (USA) has published the book "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century", which is made available online at:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10027.html
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1 March 2001:
The UN Population Division has published the 2000 Revision of "The World Population Prospects", which is made available online as a PDF-file (roughly 90KB) at:
http://www.un.org/esa/population/wpp2000h.pdf
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I am deeply grateful for the contributions of Mrs. Ana Lucia Ruggiero (WHO-PAHO), who maintains an excellent list-service on "Equality and Health". Though I've never met you in person, here's my deepest bow to your contributions to international health, Ana Lucia.
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