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This note examines the scale of the opium problem in Afghanistan and analyses recent trends in opium production in the country, including the latest figures published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in August 2008 and its forecast for 2009, published in February 2009. It also outlines the linkages between the narcotics trade and the Taliban insurgency.
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The 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising was commemorated on 10 March 2009. This Note provides brief background for Members and their staff. It is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive.
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This Note is intended as an introduction to some key trends and perspectives on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) around the world.
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This note is intended to be a brief guide to the mandate upon which those forces are deployed; the command and control of forces in the country and the integration of ISAF with the US-led Operation Enduring freedom; current troop contributions and future force rotation plans and commitments. It does not examine either wider political and economic developments in Afghanistan or the ccounter narcotics strategy.
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An economic introduction to India. House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/40.
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North Korea: The Nuclear Issue and Prospects for Change. House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/03.
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A Political and Economic Introduction to China. House of Commons Library Research Paper 06/36
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Afghanistan: the culmination of the Bonn process. House of Commons Library Research Paper 05/72.
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The Caspian Basin, energy reserves and potential conflicts. House of Commons Library Research Paper 05/24.
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This Paper discusses the situation in Burma (Myanmar), where a military regime presides over economic decline, widespread human rights abuses, forced labour and insurgency by ethnic minorities.
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