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The Human Cost of Energy Chevron's Continuing Role in Financing Oppression and Profiting from Human Rights Abuses in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)
This report documents Chevron’s ongo-ing role in financing the military regime in Burma (Myanmar) and profiting from human rights abuses on the Yadana nat-ural gas developme...
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The role of civil society in promoting democracy, good governance, peace and national reconciliation in Myanmar
This thesis is a qualitative study investigating and analyzing the role of civil society (CS) in promoting democracy, good governance, peace and national reconciliation in Myanm...
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Forest policies in Asia – a regional synthesis
Historically, the main objective of forest management was timber production. Although forest policies and forest management objectives diversified and expanded long before the U...
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Final Report of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
The final report of the Advisory Commission chaired by Kofi Annan puts forward recommendations to surmount the political, socio-economic and humanitarian challenges that current...
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National Forest Policy Review: Thailand
Forestry policies do not last long and lack continuity. Some problems are solved temporarily but emerge again in the future. If policies are not incorporated into the national s...
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Extreme weather events in developing countries and related injuries and mental health disorders - a systematic review
Due to climate change, extreme weather events have an incremental impact on human health. Injuries and mental health disorders are a particular burden of disease, which is broad...
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Data quality and timeliness of outbreak reporting system among countries in Greater Mekong subregion: Challenges for international data sharing
Cross-border disease transmission is a key challenge for prevention and control of out- breaks. Variation in surveillance structure and national guidelines used in different cou...
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Climate change knowledge portal
In an effort to serve as the hub for climate-related information, data, and tools, the World Bank (WB) created the Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP). The Portal provides an...
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State of the Basin report 2018
This State of the Basin Report 2018 assesses conditions within the Mekong basin and the impacts, both positive and negative, that developments and use of the water and related n...
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Climate and health country profiles 2015: a global overview
To protect health from risks derived from climate change, decision-makers (going from national leaders to individual citizens) need access to the best information possible on th...
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SITUATION UPDATE No. 9 Effect of TS 11 (Son-Tinh) and Situation of Xe-Pien and Xenamnoy Dam, Lao PDR
Due to monsoon season and heavy rainfall brought by TS 11 (Son-Tinh), 762 villages in 55 districts of 13 provinces have reported flooding as of 1 Aug 2018. This is a situation u...
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Gender, Climate Change and Health
There is now strong evidence that the earth’s climate is changing rapidly, mainly due to human activities. Increasing temperatures, sea-level rises, changing patterns of precipi...
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Climate change and health in the Western Pacific Region : synthesis of evidence, profiles of selected countries and policy direction
This report synthesizes information and approaches on climate change and health pertinent to Member States in the Western Pacific Region. It also examines efforts and initiative...
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Data and tools to integrate climate and environmental information into public health
During the last 30 years, the development of geographical information systems and satellites for Earth observation has made important progress in the monitoring of the weather, ...
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WHO Executive Board, 144: Health, environment and climate change: draft WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change
This draft strategy aims to provide a vision and way forward on how the world and its health community need to respond to environmental health risks and challenges until 2030, a...
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WHO Executive Board 142: Health, environment and climate change Report by the Director-General
This is a report by the Director-General on actions taken on the interlinkages between human health and biodiversity, for consideration by the Seventy-first World Health Assembl...
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Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks
this report presents a wide-ranging assessment and detailed ndings to show by how much and in what ways improving the environment can promote health and well-being. The realiza...
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Progress toward universal health coverage in ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is characterized by much diversity in terms of geography, society, economic development, and health outcomes. The health syste...
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Cambodia Climate and Health Country Profile 2015
The profiles gives a snapshot about the current and future impacts of climate change on human health in Cambodia. It discusses Cambodia's current status regarding climate change...
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WHO Dengue situation update 557
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. Dengue is a rapidly em...