Reports

GAO/BAMAKO, 8 mai 2013 (IRIN) - De nombreuses femmes disent avoir été victimes de viol ou d'agression sexuelle lors de la prise de contrôle du Nord-Mali par les rebelles en avril 2012. Depuis, selon les travailleurs…

GAO/BAMAKO, 6 May 2013 (IRIN) - During the rebel takeover of northern Mali in April 2012, many women said they were subjected to rape or sexual assault. Since then, little or no support has come through…

IOM Ghana has rolled out a new information toolkit “Free to Be Me” designed to build local capacity in Ghana’s Volta region to prevent child trafficking and address protection concerns. Many trafficked children are forced to…

This month’s update highlights children and armed conflict concerns and provides recommendations for the protection of children in the situations of the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Myanmar. It includes recommendations in particular in relation…

On March 23, 245 combatants from the militia group Kata Katanga marched into Lubumbashi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). After entering the UN Peacekeeping base there, the combatants, including 40 minors, reportedly…

HEADLINES Seven children associated with armed groups that were detained during combat operations in northern Mali were released and handed over to UNICEF and the Malian government agency in charge of Child Protection (DNPEF). The children were…

MBUJI MAYI, République démocratique du Congo, 26 février 2013 – Les routes qui serpentent dans la cité minière de Bakwa Tshimuna, proche de Mbuji Mayi la capitale du Kasaï Oriental, et que j’emprunte pour me rendre…

IOM Senegal is organizing the return and family reunification of 36 trafficked children who survived a fire in a Koranic school in Dakar. The children – 22 from Guinea Bissau, one from Guinea Conakry and 13 from…

You won’t find this place on a map. The ‘City of Hope’ doesn’t have a cathedral, or a town hall. Or any roads. Or electricity or running water. It’s a desolate area of wasteland outside Kinshasa. Most of…

London (22 March) – On the first anniversary of the Mali Conflict, the global children rights organisation Plan International is calling on donor governments to provide more humanitarian aid alongside military intervention budgets. “There is a major…