Lesotho: LESOTHO: Launch of children’s report

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Feb 27, 2003

The United Nations Children’s Fund has launched the 2003 State of the World’s Children Report that focuses on the merits and necessities of child participation in all matters affecting them. The report was launched in Maseru, Lesotho. The report calls on adults ‘to seek out the perspectives and opinions of children and to take their viewpoints seriously, in order to help children and adolescents to develop the ability to participate in the world in a competent, authentic and meaningful way’....read more

Lesotho

uganda: Lawmakers Compile Torture Report

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Feb 27, 2003

Members of Parliament will on Tuesday start compiling a report on detainees allegedly tortured by state security agents. The agents allegedly use snakes and crocodiles to force confessions.

Uganda

ethiopia: Workshop to Promote Girls' Education

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Feb 20, 2003

The Ministry of Education (MOE) and UNICEF began a workshop this week to develop innovative strategies and an action plan to promote girls' education in five regions that have wide gender gaps and low girls' school enrolment rates.

Ethiopia

uganda: call for Free Secondary Education for North Kids

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Feb 20, 2003

The Reform Agenda has called for immediate free secondary education for children from war-ravaged areas because their parents are unable to raise school fees. "Their parents are in the internally displaced people's camps, unable to cultivate crops or do anything to earn a livelihood to pay fees," Reform Agenda deputy secretary Louis Otika said.

Uganda

south africa: Corruption is Rife, says report

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Feb 20, 2003

About 60 percent of corruption in South Africa is uncovered by official processes, 18 percent by civil society and eight percent by the media, public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday. According to the executive summary of a report on corruption in South Africa, released to the media by Fraser-Moleketi, whistle-blowing is crucial to the detection of fraud and corruption.

South Africa

egypt: Mass Arrests of Street Children

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Feb 20, 2003

The Egyptian government conducts mass arrest campaigns of children whose "crime" is that they are in need of protection, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Children in police custody face beatings, sexual abuse and extortion by police and adult criminal suspects, and police routinely deny them access to food, bedding and medical care.

Egypt

South Africa: A rose at any price

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Feb 20, 2003

Valentine's Day fever hit Hudson Park High School when grade nine "cupids" delivered hearts and roses to classes throughout the school - raising more than R4000 for charity.

South Africa

burundi: Senior Field Officer - christian aid

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Feb 20, 2003

We're looking for an experienced and motivated individual to represent Christian Aid in Burundi. With responsibility for Christian Aid's Burundi programme, you will manage the staff and field office, develop Christian Aid's policy and programme, and contribute to the strategic planning of the wider team.

Burundi

nigeria: Director - African Sexuality Resource Centre

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Feb 20, 2003

The purpose of this position is to provide strategic leadership, overall vision and good management in order to fulfil the goal of the Resource Centre. Duties will include leading the review and analysis of sexuality and sexual and reproductive health (SRH)/rights trends and developments in the region and directing and overseeing data gathering activities and analysis to identify and glean experience, lessons learned, and best practice related to human sexuality and sexual and reproductive h...read more

Nigeria

nigeria: Programme Administrator - Centre for Special Studies

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Feb 20, 2003

The position provides an outstanding opportunity for the right individual to participate in the growth of a dynamic programme, and to work with a variety of medical, public health, policy, and community development professionals.

Nigeria

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