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7/3/2009
KENYA
A Role For Men in Gender Equality
By Joyce Mulama
The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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7/2/2009
DR-CONGO
U.N.-Backed Troops Abusing Civilians, HRW Says
By Marina Litvinsky
United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.
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TRADE
Who’s Harming Fish Stocks? Trawlers or Artisanal Fishers?
By Isolda Agazzi
Red tunas, sharks, rays and cods may soon disappear from our tables. Negotiations are ongoing at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to reduce the subsidies that contribute to this catastrophe. These talks foresee exceptions for developing countries, but small fishers may have to turn to other sources of livelihood.
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7/1/2009
LIBERIA
Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town
By Rebecca Murray
Mary Broh wants thousands of Monrovia's poorest people out of her city, back to the land in the countryside. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia’s controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back road, including their own.
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ECONOMY-UGANDA
Traders Go Down as Prices Go Up
By Wambi Michael
Bustling Kikubo market in Kampala, Uganda. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPS With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the country’s currency, the Ugandan shilling, against the dollar. Especially importers have not been able to bring goods in which were ordered when prices were lower.
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7/30/2009
AFRICA
Maternal Mortality, A Human Rights Catastrophe
Analysis by Rosemary Okello and Terna Gyuse
Women must gain greater involvement in shaping maternal health policies and practices. Credit: Ken Opprann/Norway/UNFPA The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people's enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform.
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6/30/2009
HEALTH-SENEGAL
Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
By Koffigan E. Adigbli?
There are just seven doctors for every 100,000 people in Senegal; just one midwife for every 400,000 people. Credit: Dima Gavrysh/UNFPA In Senegal’s southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula.
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ZIMBABWE
'Money Comes First, Health Second'
By Phyllis Kachere
Illegal gold panners at work in Shamvu district, Zimbabwe. Credit: Phylllis Kachere/IPS With half her body immersed in a muddy red pond, Esther Nyarambi closely inspects the contents of her wooden panning dish, locally known as zamba. Having spent the entire day pounding gold-bearing rock, she hopes her efforts will be rewarded with even the smallest nugget of gold.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Young, Educated and Unemployed
By Miriam Mannak
Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent in what is now regarded as a crisis.
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6/29/2009
KENYA
Report Charges Killing, Torture and Rape by Security Forces
By Katie Mattern
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling for an immediate investigation of Kenyan security officials it says were sent to protect civilians in the country’s northeastern Mandera district during the move to disarm the heavily militarised region in October 2008, but who beat and tortured those civilians instead, according to the report released Monday.
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