Informes

By Molly Schmalzbach Health extension workers now form the backbone of Ethiopia’s health care system, providing basic health services in rural villages around the country where they alert families to unhealthy practices and empower them to take…

Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 23/21. It is based upon information that the Special Rapporteur on the situation…

In Kenya, a woman is burdened with the important chore of collecting, managing, transporting and storing water. This can be an incredibly challenging task in Samburu County in northern Kenya, one of the driest areas of…

Struggles to influence the balance of power and the distribution of economic resources in Kenya have a long history of violence: national and local, actual and threatened, physical and psychological. Somewhat controlled by sophisticated legal, administrative…

Talking Peace in the Ogaden outlines the modern history of ethnic Somalis in relation to the Ethiopian state from the late 19th century to the present day, and assesses prospects for a peaceful settlement between the…

Funds Sent To: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Amount Sent: USD 35’000 Date: 4 June 2014 Details of Response Emergency: Humanitarian support to Flood Survivors in Kyela, Tanzania Date of Emergency: 14th April 2014 to date ACT Requesting Member(s):…

L’onde de choc provoquée en 1994 par le génocide rwandais a profondément marqué le pays et la région. Aujourd’hui, malgré les traumatismes, renaît l’espoir de se réconcilier. Comment un pays comme le Rwanda peut-il se reconstruire ?…

Background The East and Horn of Africa continue to suffer from conflict and displacement. Kenya remains the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. While most people fleeing from conflict in South Sudan arrive in Kakuma in northern Kenya,…

4 June 2014 - Lack of judges in nine out of 10 counties in Western Equatoria State was negatively affecting local citizens, a senior judicial official said in the state capital Yambio today. State Head of Legal…

The disaster This revised Emergency Appeal supports the Sudanese Red Crescent Society to deliver assistance to some 213,000 people (an increase from 150,000 people), and increases the budget to CHF 5.3m (from CHF 3.7m), with a total…