Central African Republic + 8 more
Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions - in all continents. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused by an intimate partner…
Burundi + 9 more
GA/10893 Sixty-fourth General Assembly Plenary 49th & 50th Meetings (AM & PM) Commission Chair Says 2010 Review of 4-Year-Old Panel Will Provide Chance To Better Define Its Potential Role; Assembly Wraps Up Debate on Revitalizing Work While early and concrete successes…
Côte d'Ivoire + 1 more
By: Jeggan Grey-Johnson Communications and Advocacy Officer-AfriMAP Renowned humanitarian and legendry musician, Harry Belafonte once famously said: "For children to count, they must be counted", how right he was. However, these words of wisdom seemed to have fallen on deaf ears…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Goma, 13 November 2009 - MONUC's Disarmament, Demobilisation, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration (DDRRR) section has been encouraged to do more to incorporate gender and child protection issues into their work, in particular relating to the provision of facilities provided by…
Sierra Leone
By Umaru Fofana and Karolina Roiha KENEMA, Sierra Leone, 10 November 2009 - Conflict raged throughout the 1990s in Sierra Leone, destroying houses and weakening community structures. It also tore apart many families as children were sent away to live…
Côte d'Ivoire
Man, le 10 novembre 2009... L'Opération des Nations unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) a sensibilisé lundi, 9 novembre, une cinquantaine de jeunes filles en situation difficile, toutes élèves du « Foyer Mère Thérèse Vallerga » de Logoualé (538 km…
Côte d'Ivoire
Abidjan, le 9 novembre 2009... L'Opération des Nations unies en Côte d'Ivoire (ONUCI) va lancer mardi 10 novembre, dans la région des Savanes, l'opération « Route ouverte », une manœuvre militaire destinée à garantir la liberté de mouvements tout…
Rwanda
A project, run by UNIFEM in collaboration with UNAIDS and UNDP in Rwanda, has been selected for a grant of US$140,000 from a UNDP funding window on protecting women and girls against violence and restoring justice to vulnerable women,…
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the combined second to fifth periodic report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on how that country implements the…
Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT (4 November 2009) - "The Government and civil society organisations have taken significant steps to fight against slavery in Mauritania, but a more a holistic, collaborative and sustained approach addressing all forms of discrimination together with poverty at all…
