car: Teachers extend their strike

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Jan 23, 2003

Primary and secondary school teachers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have decided to indefinitely extend their strike for the immediate payment of their salary arrears. "Eighty percent of the teachers are observing the strike," Malachie Mbokane, the chairman of the Interfederale des enseignants de Centrafrique, a umbrella confederation of five teachers' trade unions, told IRIN on Tuesday.

SOMALIA: The experience of separated Somali children

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Jan 23, 2003

Somali parents are paying smugglers up to US $10,000 to take their children abroad, as part of a lucrative and exploitative international child-smuggling business. Faced with desperate choices, many parents who see no future in their own country allow their children to be abandoned by "agents" at airports and railway stations in European and North American countries.

Somalia

kenya: Female Genital Mutilation Cases Have Declined Says Report

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Jan 23, 2003

One hundred and fifty five under-age girls underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in Marakwet District last month, a human rights report indicates. The report released by the Eldoret based Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (CHRD) shows Kipyego division led with 58 girls reported to have undergone the rite.

Kenya

nigeria: urgent action needed on education

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Jan 23, 2003

Once more attention is on education following the recent High Level Group on Education for All (EFA) meeting held in Abuja by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in conjunction with the Federal Government and other related international agencies. UNESCO has classified Nigeria among countries that may miss the 2015 deadline for the provision of Education for All if urgent action is not taken.

Nigeria

uganda: DIRECTOR - Path/African Youth Alliance

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Jan 23, 2003

The Director of the PATH/AYA Uganda project office provides day-to-day management of the Kampala office and its staff, representing PATH/AYA at partner meetings and is accountable to the Adolescent Health Strategic Programme Leader and senior PATH management for ensuring that project deliverables and timelines are met. Ideal candidate will have experience living and working in Anglophone Africa with demonstrated cross-cultural skills.

Uganda

7th Southern Africa Domestic Resource Mobilisation Workshop

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Jan 23, 2003

MWENGO, the Lesotho Council of NGOs are please to confirm that the 7th Domestic Resource Mobilisation Workshop will take place at the National Convention Centre in Maseru, Lesotho from the 11th to 13th February, 2003.

mozambique: managing director - World Relief

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Jan 23, 2003

The purpose of this job is to guide the development of Fundo de Credíto Comunitário as it becomes a regulated financial institution which promotes sustainable growth among the economically active poor in Mozambique.

Mozambique

drc: programme director - International Human Rights Law Group

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Jan 23, 2003

The International Human Rights Law Group is a non-profit organisation of human rights and legal professionals and activists engaged in advocacy, training and litigation around the world. The Law Group's mission is to empower human rights advocates and defenders at the national level to expand the scope of human rights protection for men and women, and to promote broad participation in building human rights standards at the national, regional and international levels.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Africa: Aids, public policy and child well-being

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Jan 23, 2003

The author argues that while the health challenges posed by HIV/Aids are widely recognized, the specific impact of HIV/Aids on children remains poorly documented, analysed and addressed. Much debate has focused on adult prevalence, death rates and ways to control the epidemic in the short-term. This study calls for a new focus on the wider impact of HIV/Aids on children's lives, including falling school enrolment, increased malnutrition and rising poverty.

nigeria: Nigerian Immunisation Programme Sees Results

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Jan 23, 2003

The National Programme on Immunisation (NPI) has just released a report that shows a continuing and dramatic decline in the incidence of fatal childhood diseases in Nigeria. Diseases covered by the report include tetanus, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and cerebrospinal meningitis, which have been responsible for high infant mortality in the country.

Nigeria

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