African regional EFA Forum takes off

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Apr 11, 2002

African Ministers of Education have inaugurated the African Regional Forum on EFA in Chantilly near Paris. The objective of the Forum is to create a framework for dialogue between African decision-makers in education, national EFA co-ordinators, development partners and civil society organizations. It is chaired by the Nigerian Minister of Education, Abraham Babalola Borishade.

Zanu-PF top brass fingered in Transparency International report

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Apr 11, 2002

Zidco Holdings, the investment arm of Zanu-PF, which controls a substantial stake in the Zimbabwean economy, was a front for personal enrichment by individuals in that party's top brass, including President Robert Mugabe, Transparency International said this week.

UNHCHR: the right to education

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Apr 11, 2002

"The Commission's initiative in focussing on the right to education initially raised in the realm of education an inevitable question: "what can the human rights approach contribute?" Obviously, we never intended to duplicate what was already done in education, our mandates are this Commission's thematic procedures, and this is the Commission on Human Rights, not on education. We had to prove that the human rights profession had something to contribute to education, that we had (to use a term...read more

State of the world's older people 2002

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Apr 11, 2002

HelpAge International launches State of the world's older people 2002 on 8 April 2002 as the Second UN World Assembly on Ageing opens in Madrid. This Assembly, the first UN global conference on ageing since 1982, will agree an International Plan of Action on Ageing, setting the course of international policy for the next 20 years.

Tackling taboos: abuse of girls in Zimbabwean schools

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Apr 11, 2002

Abuse in school is a difficult area to research associated as it is with sexual abuse, a taboo topic which most people would prefer to ignore. This is as true of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where abuse in schools is only just being acknowledged, as anywhere else. But what can be done to stamp it out?

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South Africa: Apartheid jail opens human rights school

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Apr 11, 2002

Robben Island, once the place to which freedom fighters were banished, reached another landmark in its efforts to reinvent its image when an international human rights academy was launched there on Wednesday night.

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Reports Conclude Much of World's Remaining Intact Forests at Risk

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Apr 11, 2002

A series of reports based on new maps covering nearly half of the world's forests concludes that vast areas of remaining intact or old growth and primary forests are being degraded as the result of unsustainable development practices.

UK: Fahamu - Learning for Change seeks Part-Time Research Assistant

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Mar 21, 2002

Inter Press Service seeks CHIEF EDITOR

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Mar 21, 2002

Will be responsible for the overall management and development of the IPS global editorial network. Sound knowledge of global issues, including those of relevance to the South. Written and oral fluency in English and Spanish, knowledge of French desirable.

Uganda: KNOW-HOW CONFERENCE

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Mar 21, 2002

Know How Conference is organized by Isis-WICCE (Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange) which is based in Kampala, assisted by the International Information Center and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam and Isis International-Manila. This conference brings together specialists in getting information to where it is needed, whether to the grass roots, researchers, policy makers or the media.

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