(AfricaFiles)-- Global and regional institutions with a responsibility to guard press freedom are largely failing to fulfill their mandate as journalists worldwide continue to face threats, imprisonment, intimidation, and killings, according to Attacks on the Press, a yearly survey released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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(CRAI)-- More than two dozen civil society organisations called today on the AU’s Peace and Security Council to ensure that the rights of all Sudan’s existing citizens to a nationality are fully protected following the probable secession of South Sudan.
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(PANA)-- The UN and the African Union (AU) Saturday 25/9/2010 launched a joint task force on peace and security as the two organisations stepped up their cooperation in conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peacebuilding across the continent.
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Oxfam (Press Release)-- The world can halve global hunger within five years says a new Oxfam report launched today. The launch of ‘Halving World Hunger: Still Possible?’ coincides with an announcement by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that the number of hungry people worldwide has dropped by 98 million to 925 million in the past year.
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Filed under: News and Analysis
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