Four months after the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria granted millions of dollars to the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, there is still uncertainty over how the government intends to use the money.
Two years ago wealthy countries promised resources for all developing nations committed to "Education for All." But since then very few resources have been forthcoming, charges an Oxfam International report released in advance of this week's World Bank meeting.
The Institute of International Education (IIE), Open Society Institute, and the Scholars at Risk Network announce the autumn application cycle for fellowships from IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund, supporting scholars who are threatened by violations of their fundamental human rights including threats caused by displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment, intimidation, or violence.
Amnesty International in Bujumbura has published a new report - Poverty, isolation and ill-treatment: Juvenile Justice in Burundi -which highlights the multiple abuses children are suffering at the hands of the law.
Responding to low levels of basic education and a high rate of illiteracy, the West African country of Burkina Faso last week launched a programme to raise school enrolment throughout the country from 40 to 70 percent by 2010.
Some 240 000 teachers around Kenya went on indefinite strike on Monday over a long-standing pay dispute with the government, which they reproach for not paying a 200 percent hike promised in 1997, their union officials said.
Between 3000 to 4000 children mostly from developing countries die every day in the world because their mothers are not empowered or supported to breastfeed their babies, a global meeting on Challenges of Breastfeeding in the 21st Century was told in Arusha.
Do African adolescents know enough about AIDS to protect themselves against infection? What is the best way to educate them about the risks of HIV? A report from Population Services International evaluates a peer-led HIV prevention programme in a secondary school in Zambia.
Large numbers of children are at risk of malnutrition and disease due to lack of access to food, water, sanitation and health services in Liberia, according to a September emergency update by Save the Children Fund (SCF-UK).
The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has expressed its "grave concern" at the widespread violence against girls in Sudan in the private and community spheres as well as at the hands of state officials.
