Documenting political violence and abuses of power in Manicaland Province.

National Development Agency officials are flouting the agency's own funding procedures. This has emerged after 60% of it's total allocated funds went to KwaZulu-Natal between May 2000 and December last year,
the province which happens to the Executive Director's home province.

Despite dwindling funds from Danish government for Southern Africa, the Danish government has channeled funds to the Permanent Commission for Human Rights in Zambia.This funding will help to effect the repatriation of illegal immigrants languishing in Zambian prisons.

The National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a Rockefeller-funded humanities fellowship programme.

INDEPTH is dedicated to the identification of critical developing world health and social issues, the coordination of cross-site, longitudinal studies and interventions to address these issues, and the translation of research findings into improved health and social policy and practice. The Executive Director of INDEPTH will contribute leadership to network efforts and is responsible for the ongoing management and development of the INDEPTH network.

the Preliminary Report of the 2000 Namibia Demographic and Health Survey has recently been published. The report contains around 40 pages. Chapter 1 provides a brief background, while the methodology is described in Chapter 2. The main findings of the survey are contained in the third chapter, which highlights the most important results at output and outcome level. Chapter 4 provides a summary and concluding remarks. The key results appear condensed in table form in Annex 2. The report may be...read more

More than 80 million people are living with disabilities in Africa - placing an enormous burden on already overstretched services, a pan African conference has heard.

A new report released by the ICFTU has condemned the deplorable situation faced by working people in Malawi and challenged the government to meet its obligations to protect its citizens. Despite having ratified all of the eight ILO conventions on core labour standards, the situation for the hundreds of thousands of child labourers, women and for the majority of workers in general, remains as miserable as ever.

Violence, gender inequality, and high rates of HIV transmission are three major problems at all levels of South African education. Gender inequalities play out in a variety of different types of violence: girls are raped by boys and boys are the main perpetrators of sexual assault but boys can also be the victims of assault by other boys. Yet, many interventions reflect the perception that boys are perpetrators and girls are the victims. How can the gap between rhetoric and practice in addres...read more

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