Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education 
Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF ebook] 

The ‘Our Encounters with’ series collect together unnmediated, unsanitised narratives by service-users, past service-users and carers. These stories of direct experience will be of benefit to those i …

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Human trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teaching over the past ten years. Research has sprung from criminology, public policy, women’s and gender s …

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