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War, Conflict and Progress – Decolonisation
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod
/modsbook4.html#Decolonization
Part of the excellent Internet Modern History Sourcebook. Provides interesting documents and information relating to decolonisation around the world, including the UN Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries.

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
www.cafod.org.uk/resources/
campaign_kit
CAFOD’s ‘campaign kit’ contains info packs on debt, trade justice, fair trade and the ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign.

Ethical Consumer.org
www.ethicalconsumer.org/
Organisation that looks at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the big and trendy brand names. Find out whether businesses test on animals, pollute the environment or give money to cigarette companies.

Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
www.maquilasolidarity.org/
Fighting for healthy workplaces worldwide and employment with dignity and fair wages. Site contains excellent resources and damning articles on the likes of Nike, Gap and Disney.

Women Working Worldwide
www.poptel.org.uk/women-ww/
Supports the rights of women workers in an increasingly globalised economy in which women are used as a source of cheap and flexible labour.

Books

The Clash of Fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali
This work provides an explanation for the rise of both Islamic fundamentalism and new forms of Western colonialism.

20th-century Issues: Poverty: Changing attitudes 1900 to 2000 by Teresa Garlake
Looks at poverty over the last 100 years and the causes of the global rich–poor divide. Surveys the history of poverty from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the famines of the 1980s and 1990s and discusses how people and governments have responded to the challenges of poverty.

Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the poverty of nations by Catherine Caufield
A history of the World Bank, set up in 1945 with the pledge to narrow the gap between the First and Third Worlds, but which has done nothing of the sort. The author argues that the bank's bureaucrats, insulated from public scrutiny, are guilty of overlooking the human equation.

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