International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to ...
Botswana continues to be seen as Africa’s least corrupt, and Somalia as the continent’s – and the world’s – most corrupt country, according to a new survey published this week.
The top United Nations-African Union official for Darfur has highlighted the role of civil society groups in the search for a solution to the strife that has plagued the Sudanese region, encouraging their full participation in the peace talks that resumed in Doha today.
Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), talked to AllAfrica about the work of the young, Nairobi-based institution and how its priorities and programs are evolving to improve food security across Africa. Agra was founded in 2006, with initial support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Bill Gates recently ...
Below is a draft of a road map for the development of a human rights strategy for Africa drafted at the Forum on the participation of NGOs in the 46th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
The humanitarian aid community will not only be keeping tabs on the conversations about "who will cut how much [greenhouse gas emissions]" at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), but will also have their antennae tuned to talks on issues already affecting their constituencies.
Leaders of the pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Monday took their message of peace to the White House in the United States, where they were presented with a prestigious human rights award by US President Barack Obama.
The full text of remarks by President Barack Obama at the presentation to Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) of the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 23, 2009.
Violence against women remains a major challenge to the realisation of gender equity in Kenya today, a lobby group has said.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has urged the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), Coalition of NGOs in Tobacco Control (CNTC), and the Media Alliance in Tobacco Control (MATCO), to educate the youth on the hazardous effects of tobacco use and exposure, to sensitise the public and other stakeholders on the previsions of the Tobacco Control Bill, its passage, and enforcement.
Remarks by Jenni Williams, accepting on behalf of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC.
Remarks by Magodonga Mahlangu accepting the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC.
Journalists during the weekend reaffirmed their commitments in playing more vibrant roles in making sure that girl child education is accessible to ensure community development through gender mainstreaming.
Non-governmental organisations have launched a joint campaign with the Police to fight human sacrifice in Uganda.
Guaranteeing finance to support the global governance of food security is crucial to support the very poorest to feed themselves, says ActionAid.
