Rethinking Globalization – Critical Issues and Policy Choices By Martin Khor Published by Fernwood Publishing, 2001 What can Third World governments do in the face of the globalisation juggernaut? Martin Khor sets out practical proposals for action nationally and internationally to shape globalisation. His book explains the economic globalisation process; shows how globalisation is failing to reduce poverty; criticises the West for dominating international policy, exposes the flaws in “one size fits all” policy prescriptions; argues that the South must be given room for manoeuvre; and proposes innovative and realistic policies for the South. He concludes that the whole prospect of rapid, just and diversified development in the South, on which prosperity, an end to mass poverty and the future of the environment all depend, is at stake. ISBN: 1-55266-059-1 Price: CAD$19.95, UK pounds 9.99, US$17.50 Contact: Tel: 902-422-3302 Fax: 902-422-3179 Email: info@fernwoodbooks.ca

Protect or Plunder? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights
By Vandana Shiva
Published by Fernwood Publishing, 2001

Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents – they sound technical, even boring. Yet what kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. Vandana Shiva shows how the Western-inspired and unprecedented widening of the concept of intellectual property does not stimulate human creativity or the generation of knowledge. Instead, it is exploited by transnational corporations and used to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people, especially the poor, and the age-old knowledge of the world’s farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular resistance is rising around the world to the WTO, the group that polices this new intellectual world order, the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations, and these new technologies.

ISBN: 1-55266-066-4
Price: CAD$19.95,
UK pounds 9.99, US$17.50
Contact: Tel: 902-422-3302
Fax: 902-422-3179
Email: info@fernwoodbooks.ca

The Human Rights of Migrants Edited by Reginald Appleyard Co-published by the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations, 2001 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights established that human rights are “universal, indivisible and inalienable”. However, with international migration at an all time high, government officials, policy makers, NGOs, researchers and international agencies have only begun to consider the human rights dimension. This collection of articles summarises main trends, issues, debates, actors and initiatives currently conditioning the recognition and extension of protection of human rights of migrants. In order to act effectively to uphold the basic rights and dignity of migrants we need an accurate account of the conditions, issues and actors that shape this concern. ISBN: 92-9068-105-5 Price: US$18.00 Contact: Email: publications@un.org; or unpubli@unog.ch

Ending Violence Against Women – A Challenge for Development and Humanitarian Work
By Francine Pickup, with Suzanne Williams and Caroline Sweetman
Published by Oxfam Publishing, 2001

Violence, and women’s fear of it, limits women’s choices in virtually all spheres of their lives. It has long-term, as well as short-term, consequences for women’s emotional and physical well-being. It detrimentally affects women’s ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships, and participate in public activities, including development programmes. Yet development organisations have been generally slow to realise the centrality of the issue to their work. By addressing violence against women, development workers go to the heart of how members of communities relate to one another and how they are able to shape their own lives.
The book examines the many different definitions of violence against women, and offers theories about why it happens in all societies around the world. It includes an accessible analysis of legal and human rights-based approaches to ending violence, and discusses the current concern about the issue, asking why development organisations have been slow to take up the struggle to end violence against women. Using case studies from times of war and peace, the book then focuses on strategies to counter violence against women, and support the survivors. The study builds on Oxfam’s experience in gender and development work, and on a research programme into violence against women which culminated in a summit in Sarajevo in early 1999.

ISBN: 0 85598 438 4 (Paperback)
Price: US$18.95 and
UK pounds 11.50
Contact: Fax: 44 (0)1865 312600 Email: publish@oxfam.org.uk

Democratizing the Global Economy – The Battle Against the World Bank and The IMF Edited by Kevin Danaher Published by Common Courage Press, 2001 In Democratizing the Global Economy, dozens of top-notch activists and educators examine the mounting protests against the World Bank and IMF, why these lenders have finally generated such heated opposition and what the global justice movement proposes replacing them with in order to build a democratic global economy. For half a century the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - two of the most powerful institutions on Earth - operated in near-total secrecy. Now, an international grassroots movement is exposing these elite operations to the uncomfortably bright light of public scrutiny. Authors include Fidel Castro, Robert Naiman, Carol Welch, Robert Weissman, Terry Allen, Naomi Klein, and Deborah James. Topics range from the need for poor nations to unite against corporate rule, how IMF and World Bank policies lower wages and encourage sweatshops, police brutality and recent government efforts to chill activism, comments on how criticism of protestors’ “lack of vision” has often missed the point, to methods to democratise the global economy. ISBN: 1-56751-208-9 Price: US$11.96 Contact: Email: orders-info@commoncouragepress.com

Social Investment and Economic Growth – A Strategy to Eradicate Poverty
By Patrick Watt
Published by Oxfam Publishing, 2000

This book argues that economic growth is necessary but not alone sufficient to secure the eradication of poverty. The benefits of economic growth need to be invested in developing social and political structures that can foster sustainable democracy and accountability, and develop a mature civil society. Without such structures underpinning it, economic growth is unsustainable. To achieve the goal of development for all, labour-intensive growth must be accompanied by public investment in basic, universal social services. With examples drawn from East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, Patrick Watt offers detailed and realistic policy recommendations for using wealth creation to meet the needs of those – one quarter of the world’s population – who survive on less than one dollar a day.

ISBN: 0 85598 434 1 (Paperback)
Price: US$11.95 and UK pounds 6.95
Contact: Fax: 44 (0)1865 312600 Email: publish@oxfam.org.uk