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.

"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

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.

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?

A draft plan of action: Proposals made by Justice Sans Frontières ( JSF ) of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Secret Cuban and U.S. documents recently released show that the administration of then-president Gerald Ford was planning covert actions in Angola well before Cuba's intervention in the former Portuguese colony's civil war in 1975.

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.

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.

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