Summary: This is a report of a field visit to Sudan carried out by Julia Gilkes (Early Childhood Consultant) and Rima Zaazaa (Educational Coordinator) in October 2002. The visit's main activity was an orientation workshop on the new ECD Manual (in...
Summary: This report gives insight into why young women and girls may actively choose to participate in conflict and carry outacts of violence, as well as how they can be coerced into taking up military roles through propaganda, abduction,...
[MALELANE, 24 November 2006] - When the governments of Mozambique and South Africa decided to revive the transport route between Maputo and Johannesburg in the mid-1990s, child slaves were not the cargo envisaged for haulage.Yet management at...
Summary: World sanitation crisis causes millions of avoidable deaths, and contamination from human waste is largely to blame, says UNDP’s Human Development Report.[CAPE TOWN, 9 November 2006] - Simply installing a flush toilet in the home increases...
[26 octobre 2006] – Plus de 4,3 millions de personnes vont être confrontés à des pénuries alimentaires en Afrique australe parce que les pays riches n'ont pas tenu leurs promesses de dons, a déploré...
Summary: This global report was launched during the week of the presentation of the UN Study on Violence Against Children in New York on 12 October. The report is part of a submission to the Violence Study.As the UN Secretary-General’s Study...
The Assembly of the Republic, the Mozambican parliament, through its Commission for Prevention and Fight Against HIV/AIDS, is striving to work out a national strategy to support orphaned and vulnerable children.Speaking on Thursday at the...
Summary: Kimasomaso, which means "to speak out boldly" in Kiswahili, is a weekly radio series which explores sexual and reproductive health issues with and by young people. Funding has come from the Ford Foundation. Issues that have been...
A new study by Save the Children, Visitors from Zimbabwe, highlights the vulnerability of children from Zimbabwe crossing into Mozambique in search of food and work. Many are orphans or simply unaccompanied and therefore are especially...
[MAPUTO, 23 May 2006] - People's rights sometimes get trampled in the rush to provide aid when disasters strike - with women and girls particularly at risk of exploitation. Mozambique has suffered more than its fair share of emergencies in recent...