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2010 |
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21-27 June |
Fafo-researcher Anne Kielland's work on vulnerability in rural areas and children's mobility in Senegal was presented at a workshop in Dakar 23 June and received broad media coverage:
La Nouvelle Tribune * AfriScoop.com * AllAfrica.com * Reussir - Le magazine du business * African Global News * AMWSENTV.com
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22 june |
Fafo's poll on the West bank and in Gaza is covered by several media: Haaretz - Poll: Most Palestinians want peace with Israel. Ma'an - Poll: Palestinians want elections 5 Towns Jewish time - Only 39% of palestinians want rockets to continue against Israel. |
23 March |
Palestinian refugees' job prospects should be enhanced - study. Lebanon's Daily Star refers to Fafo's research on Lebanon: Labour force study of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon |
21 Feb |
Critics call it child slavery. Montreal Gazette refers to the Fafo-report Haiti Youth Survey 2009 |
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2009 |
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21 Dec |
The foreign adviser in China's think tank. Fafo's Head of research Jon Pedersen is interviewed by People's Daily Online. Pedersen won this year's Chinese Friendship Award – an award given to foreign experts who contribute to China's construction
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25 Nov |
Questions raised over quake funds. China Daily interviews Fafo-researcher Zhang Huafeng, who says: – Non-farming family businesses are an important force in driving economic restoration and promoting employment rate in the affected areas. |
23 Nov |
RP to lift ban on au pair deployment to Norway. The Philippine and Norwegian governments will forge a bilateral agreement soon to lift the ban on au pair deployment to Norway, according to ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau. The article refers to Fafo-researcher Cecilie Øien's report on the au pair scheme: On equal terms |
2 Sep |
Flere fattige børn i Norge, Danmarks Radio interview with Fafo-researcher Roy Nielsen, and Norges fattiga barn allt fler, Dagens Nyheter (Number of poor children in Norway is increasing) |
30 July |
A New Administration, Same Old Story. Fafo-researcher Akram Atallah reflects on president Obama and the American-Middle East relations at Ma'an News. Arabic version of the article was published July 25th |
1 May |
One Voice: manufacturing consent for Israeli apartheid. The Electronic Intifada refers to Fafo's Surveying Palestinian opinions March 2009 |
16 April |
Results from Fafo’s most recent poll on the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been covered extensively by the Palestinian media:
Palestinian ministry of interior in Gaza (Hamas)
Alresalah (the largest Hamas-affiliated newspaper)
Aljazeera
Feras Web page
Nafethat Al Kheer
PLO
Saudi newspaper
Miftah
Palestine Future
Palestine today
Alrakami
Alyamm newspaper (written in Arabic): Survey highlights the needs for the attention to the health of pregnant women in Gaza Strip |
14 April |
Lieberman's Moment. Israel National News refers to Fafo’s poll on the West Bank and Gaza Strip |
4 April |
Independent Norwegian poll: Palestinian Majority Opposes Two States. Virtual Jerusalem about Fafo’s poll on the West Bank and Gaza Strip |
2 April |
Results from Fafo’s most recent poll on the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been covered extensively by the Palestinian media. Headlines have concentrated on four themes: (i) Yearning for political reconciliation and national unity. (ii) Demand for change in political leadership and political reform. (iii) Support for negotiations. (iv) Party preference.
http://www.al-ayyam.ps/znews/site/template/article.aspx?did=108524&date=4/2/2009
http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=153371
http://www.qudsnet.com/arabic/news.php?maa=View&id=99233
http://fpnp.name/arabic/?action=detail&id=21379
http://www.palpress.ps/arabic/index.php?maa=ReadStory&ChannelID=52528
http://www.israj.net/vb/t2586/
http://kofiapress.com/arabic/?action=detail&id=30979
http://www.samanews.com/index.php?id=details&sid=51399
http://www.palissue.com/arabic/news/file/details/0/24089.html
http://www.alestqlal.com/news.aspx?id=1192
http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51588&tpl_color=orange
http://www.watan.com/2009040110389/28-21.html
http://www.shab.ps/view_news.php?newsID=3804
http://www.nablustv.net/internal.asp?page=details&newsID=41912&cat=14
http://www.ekhbaryat.net/internal.asp?page=articles&articles=details&cat=2&newsID=8935 |
2008 |
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22 May |
Companies should obey the law in lawless lands. Article in The Lawyer by Fafo deputy managing director Mark Taylor, see: Red Flags. See also: Everybody's business in Guardian Comment is free |
May |
In an article published (in Arabic) in Ma'an News Agency and Alzaitona Fafo researcher Akram Atallah recommends Palestinians and others to read the book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2007) by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe. The work interprets the relationship of Nakbah to the Palestine-Israeli conflict, and Pappe puts forward an elucidating interpretation of the relationship of Nakbah to the Palestine-Israeli conflict, naming Nakbah as the conflict's very origin. |
14 May |
Children inherit welfare dependency. A new study in Norway suggests that every fourth child of parents who receive welfare assistance end up claiming welfare benefits themselves when they grow up. The way to the welfare office seems shorter for children of welfare recipients, according to Aftenposten News from Norway. The study is published by Fafo (Norwegian text only) |
29 April |
Jordan: Increased domestic violence among Iraqi refugees. IRIN News refers to Fafo's study of Iraqis in Jordan |
April |
Islamic schools lure African boys into begging. Story by Rukmini Callimachi with the Associated Press in West Africa based upon Fafo researcher Anne Hatløy's field work among street children in Senegal, published by Newsweek and several other media. See the UCW report Enfants mendiants
dans la région
de Dakar |
28 February |
Playing with Children's Lives: Big Tobacco in Malawi. Tobacco News and Information referers to the Fafo-report The smoking business. Tobacco tenants in Malawi |
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9 January |
New estimate of Iraq death toll. A survey from WHO suggests that
some 151,000 people died violent deaths in Iraq between 2003 and
2006, according to Nature News. Fafo director Jon Pedersen
says to the paper that the WHO survey was methodologically robust,
but its results are a little on the low side of what he would expect. |
2007 |
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10 December |
Uganda: Fewer Men in the North – UN Survey. All Africa
about the report Returning to uncertainity?
Adressing vulnerabilities in Northern Uganda launched
7 Dec. in Kampala. The report was conducted by the Fafo researchers
Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Morten Bøås, Anne Hatløy
and Kathleen Jennings on behalf of UNDP and the Office of the Prime
Minister Uganda. See also: Fewer men in the North - UN survey, New Vision, North fails on MDGs-UN, Sunday Monitor |
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10 November |
Is Europe adrift in The Middle East? Contribution to US/MEPolicy
Briefs by Fafo director Mark Taylor together with FRIDE-director
Mariano Aguirre |
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7 November |
No hay condiciones para
Annapolis (Annapolis: how to avoid failure). Contribution to El Pais
by Fafo director Mark Taylor together with FRIDE-director Mariano
Aguirre |
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2 October |
Tobacco Stains. The past decade has seen a remarkable shift
in the way Americans view cigarette smoking, and the multinational
tobacco corporations have moved their production and marketing efforts
overseas, according to an article in the journal In These Times.
The article refers to Fafo as one of the few organizations in the
world to investigate tobacco-production. Find Fafo publications
on child workers and the
tobacco industry here |
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26 September |
Cash in hand for Polish workers. One out of three Polish guest
workers fail to pay taxes, according to a new study by Fafo, and
"undeclared labour is on the rise in Norway", social scientist
Jon Horgen Friberg tells Aftenposten |
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18 September |
Palestinian Authority celebrates 9/11 terrorist attacks. Article
in Israel Insider (Israel's daily newsmagazine) about Palestinians
celebrating 9/11, with a reference to the Fafo poll in December
2005 that found "65% of Palestinians support[ed] Al Qaeda actions
in the USA and Europe." See Fafo
table report |
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16 September |
Hvem skal bygge husene i Polen? 'Who will build the
houses in Poland?' The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten
interviews among others Fafo researcher Line Eldring about the rush
of Polish workers to the Nordic countries. See her paper (in Norwegian)
Polsk byggenæring i
bevegelse |
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10 August |
Well-Off Fleeing Iraq Find Poverty and Pain in Jordan. - Iraqis
here have never been formally counted. A survey by a Norwegian group,
Fafo, which has not been made public, is expected to report there
are less than half of the 750,000 commonly estimated to be in Jordan,
according to The New York Times. |
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1 August |
Risking life and limb to count the war dead. Fafo researchers
Anne Hatløy and Jon Pedersen is interviewed by New Scientist,
about the risks of working in war zones. |
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28 July |
Early elections is a national necessity and a political demand
- a reading of the polls. Comment by Fafo researcher Akram Atallah
Alayasa at Ma'an News Agency |
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16 July |
In its editorial Öppna
gränserna, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter
makes reference to Fafo researcher Line Eldrings comparison of how
the labour markets in Norway and Sweden have been affected by the
latest rounds of EU enlargement. In her presentation at Poltikerveckan
in Visby Eldring explained that the flow of labor to Norway has
boosted the Norwegian economy, and that currently the main concern
is that there will a be a shortage of labor from Eastern Europe.
Dagens Nyheter urges the Swedish government to follow the
Norwegian example and give companies a better possibility to compete
for this labor. |
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20 June |
Problemet er, at USA og EU ikke anerkendte Hamas-regeringen.
'The problem is that USA and EU did not recognize Hamas' governement.'
Fafo deputy managing director Mark B. Taylor is interviewed by the
Danish newspaper Information (papir edition) |
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15 June |
Study predicts massive job losses in Nahr al-Bared. The
Daily Star in Lebanon interviews Fafo Middle East expert Åge
A. Tiltnes on the situation for the Palestinian refugees, see Tiltnes'
new paper: A Socio-economic
Profile of the Nahr El-Bared and Beddawi Refugee Camps of Lebanon |
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31 May |
Jordan Feels Iraq War's Strain From Refugees, Prices. Bloomberg.com
says that the Jordanian government has commissioned Fafo to assess
their impact |
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7 May |
Iraqi expatriates costing Jordan $1 billion annually — Interior
Ministry. Jordan Times about the Fafo survey on Iraqis
in Jordan. The survey defines the exact number of Iraqis in the
Kingdom and identifies their living conditions, financial status
and needs |
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2 April |
Palestinian Self-determination. Fafo researcher Mark Taylor's
article in Le Monde examines strategies for dealing the with
a Hamas government in Palestine and asks "After Mecca, is there
a peace strategy?" |
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March |
As Good As It Gets. Fafo Middle East expert Åge A. Tiltnes
is interviewed by JO Magazine on Iraqis in Jordan |
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14 March |
Life would be much easier without occupation. Comment by Fafo
researcher Akram Atallah Alayasa at Ma'an News Agency |
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14 March |
Norway's biggest minority. Aftenposten News from Norway
writes about a Fafo paper
on the development in the Polish building industry |
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