The Human Rights Diploma Programme

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Jul 17, 2003

The Human Rights Diploma Programme is an academic programme aimed at strengthening capacity for the promotion, protection and advancement of human rights activities to meet a specific need in human rights advocacy and activism. It builds upon existing theoretical and practical experiences and equips the participants with the capabilities for protecting, enforcing and evaluating the impact of human rights. The Human Rights diploma programme covers a number of substantive fields. These inclu...read more

ETHIOPIA: Child prostitution on the rise, report says

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Jul 17, 2003

Child prostitution in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is “increasing at an alarming rate”, according to a study by Save the Children-Denmark (SCD). The NGO revealed that the lure of work brought many child prostitutes – some as young as 13 - to the city. The report, compiled with government officials and a local child rights organisation, urged immediate action to tackle the magnitude of the problem.

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kenya: Schools to Implement Human Rights Lessons

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Jul 10, 2003

Human rights education has for a long time been considered the missing link in Kenya's education system, leading to stop gap measures like civic education. Teaching human rights to students can yield huge benefits in terms of building a culture of human rights and democracy. As a result, the government has now decided to incorporate human rights in the formal school curriculum, targeted for implementation in January 2003, barely beating the 2004 deadline for the United Nations Decade for Hu...read more

Kenya

south africa: Will secret Aids report get a state response?

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Jul 17, 2003

An "angry and disappointed" Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday leaked the key findings of a secret government report, kept under wraps for months, which says that 1,7 million lives can be saved by 2010 if Aids drugs are given to everyone needing them. This comes after months of frustration among health care workers and activists, who say they have lost patience with the government's apparent ambivalence over anti-retroviral drug programmes.

South Africa

Zimbabwe: Lack of Funds Hampers Urban Feeding Scheme

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Jul 10, 2003

An international NGO on Tuesday said a shortage of funds was hampering the delivery of assistance to Zimbabwe's urban poor. Help Germany coordinator Hans Sittig told IRIN: "With the limited funds we are just managing to provide help to those who fall under our programme. But that is just scratching the surface. There are many other vulnerable groups who are desperately in need of assistance.”

Zimbabwe

THE WIRELESS INTERNET OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS: CONFERENCE MANIFESTO

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Jul 10, 2003

The prospects of Wireless Internet are by all admissions very promising, offering vast development opportunities worldwide both from a mobility and fixed infrastructure standpoint. Wireless Internet technologies present very attractive opportunities for developing countries to leapfrog several generations of telecommunications infrastructure. This is according to the conference manifesto of "The Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Nations" conference, hosted by the Wireless Internet ...read more

kenya: new free school policy causes hygiene problems

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Jul 10, 2003

Many schools in Kenya are coping with a 100% or more increase in student numbers that are triggered by the new government's free and compulsory primary education policy. Average class sizes have risen while facilities remained the same. With the influx of so many new children, latrine use might go up to 200 pupils per latrine. Poor hygiene at schools may add to the region's health problems, where already over 85% of illnesses reported at local clinics are water-related.

Kenya

south africa: Education is Reaching More And More People

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Jul 10, 2003

The number of people with no education in SA is decreasing, according to the results of Census 2001, released by Statistics SA this week. This bodes well for the country as it shows that the education system is reaching more and more people.

South Africa

UGANDA: LRA attacks aimed at dismantling camps - Red Cross report

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Jul 10, 2003

The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has intensified its attacks in northern Uganda in recent weeks with the main objective of forcing internally displaced persons (IDPs) out of camps protected by the Ugandan army, the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has said.

Uganda

International Civil Society Assessment & Strengthening Project - Call for expressions of interest

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Jul 10, 2003

CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations, is inviting applications for national partners to implement the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI) 2003-04. The CSI is an action-research project that assesses the state of civil society in countries around the world with a view to creating a knowledge base and an impetus for civil society strengthening initiatives. The CSI was successfully piloted in 14 countries around the world and CIVICUS has launched the first full implementation ...read more

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