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Swazi women find strength in numbers
3 January 2013
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Swazi women are organizing to promote their rights and welfare, convinced that discriminatory laws are at odds with the essential roles they play in their families and in their country’s economy.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97168/Swazi-women-find-strength-in-numbers
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ETHIOPIA-YEMEN: Jemmal Ahmed, “I survived a deadly trip to Yemen"
21 December 2012
(IRIN
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Jemmal Ahmed, 21, was recently deported back to Ethiopia after a nine-month stay in a prison in Yemen for illegally entering the country a few months earlier. His intention had been to cross over into Saudi Arabia to find work.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/97104/ETHIOPIA-YEMEN-Jemmal-Ahmed-I-survived-a-deadly-trip-to-Yemen
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DJIBOUTI-ETHIOPIA: Irregular migration continues unabated
21 December 2012
(IRIN
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More people from the Horn of Africa region, especially Ethiopia and Somalia, are crossing international borders as irregular migrants - lacking official documentation or approval - drawn by the promise of a better life in the Arabian Peninsula.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97097/DJIBOUTI-ETHIOPIA-Irregular-migration-continues-unabated
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Reactions from the DRC to ICC acquittal of militia leader
19 December 2012
(IRIN
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In its second-ever verdict, the International Criminal Court (ICC), on 18 December, acquitted former militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo [Chui] of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to a 2003 massacre in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) northeastern Ituri District.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97079/Reactions-from-the-DRC-to-ICC-acquittal-of-militia-leader
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Security forces in Zimbabwe deployed as historians
19 December 2012
(IRIN
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Security forces are being deployed across Zimbabwe ostensibly to record accounts of the country’s liberation struggle against white-minority rule, but both political parties and independent analysts view the tactic as a prelude to political violence ahead of next year’s scheduled elections.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97081/Security-forces-in-Zimbabwe-deployed-as-historians
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AID POLICY: Integrating menstrual hygiene management into aid programming
19 December 2012
(IRIN
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Menstrual hygiene issues should be integrated into programmes and policies across sectors, including water, sanitation and hygiene, reproductive health, emergency management, and education, notes a new report. Currently, taboos surrounding menstruation leave many girls and women in low- and middle-income countries without access to sanitation facilities and excluded from school and opportunities.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97080/AID-POLICY-Integrating-menstrual-hygiene-management-into-aid-programming
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AID POLICY: Communication technologies transform relief and development
18 December 2012
(IRIN
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Since Africa's first mobile phone network went live in 1994, mobile phone penetration has shot up to 65 percent; access to the internet is also increasing rapidly. Today, information and communications technology (ICT) plays a central role in promoting development and humanitarian assistance.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97070/AID-POLICY-Communication-technologies-transform-relief-and-development
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SIERRA LEONE: The political battle on FGM/C
17 December 2012
(IRIN
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Campaigns to lower the rate of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Sierra Leone are having some impact, but efforts to ban the practice have failed thus far, and despite a push to communicate its health risks, many still believe FGM/C promotes good health and hygiene.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97066/SIERRA-LEONE-The-political-battle-on-FGM-C
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In Brief: Putting Congo’s Baka minority on the map
17 December 2012
(IRIN
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A group of Pygmy women singers from Likouala, in the extreme north of the Republic of Congo, has released a music album, which they and their backer hope will help safeguard the rights of the country’s Baka Pygmies.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97065/In-Brief-Putting-Congo-s-Baka-minority-on-the-map
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CAMEROON: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
14 December 2012
(IRIN
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Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97051/CAMEROON-Campaigners-oppose-industrial-palm-oil-plantation
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