For 2007, out of a total enrolment of 300,000, 94,000 Swazi children or nearly one-third of all schoolchildren from first grade to standard five will be assisted to stay in school. A network of community care points has expanded to over 300 in the past year, and government plans to keep orphans and vulnerable children at home and in their schools, in familiar surroundings during the time of parental loss.

The vast majority of children and youth from the south have not received any formal schooling, and education indicators in Southern Sudan today are among the worst in the world. Formal education in the south was severely limited even before the most recent two decades of civil war.

Raising Voices is a small international organization based in Kampala, Uganda. We are seeking a dynamic and a committed individual to join our team and be based in Uganda (at least for first year). Responsibilities include both coordination of the GBV Prevention Network and provision of technical support on violence prevention as senior program officer at Raising Voices. For more information please visit Deadline for applications in February 20th, 2007.

The Africa Society and the Rhodes Scholars Southern Africa Forum at Oxford university has refused to allow Fahamu to sell copies of its new book ‘African Perspectives on China in Africa’ at a forthcoming seminar on China in Africa, despite a long established tradition of allowing booksellers to sell books at such events.

The organisers at St. Antony's College at Oxford University wrote to Fahamu to say that in their view the new book presents a monolithic, one sided view, and therefore would not be allowed to have the book displayed at the seminar. But how do they know it is monolithic? The book was only printed in Nairobi last week, and no copies are yet available in the UK.

Despite protests being lodged, Fahamu has still been refused the right to display the book.

We believe that this is an affront to academic freedom and an attempt at suppression of freedom of expression.

Primary school instructor Richard Morgan can no longer stroll between the rows of desks to teach in his classroom at the SIMS Community School. The boys and girls are crammed shoulder-to-shoulder in their blue and white uniforms as Morgan lectures from the front of the room.

Creating Local Connections West Africa (CLC WA) aims to realize the potential of youth for improving their communities, countries, and region. CLC WA will achieve this through peer-led trainings, media creation, and strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) during its implementation in: Sierra Leone Nigeria, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, and Liberia. The project will run over a 15 months period (February 2007-april 2008).

Save the Children UK's south Sudan programme concentrates its efforts in two regions: Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile. In the context of south Sudan, making a reality of children's rights is achieved through an integrated programme of work in the thematic areas of food security and livelihoods, basic education, child protection and preventative health.

The African Research Association (ARA) seeks Project Director for their Community action project, Development in Nigeria. The NGO operates in Northern and Central Cross Rivers State with farmer and pastoralist communities for more sustainable natural resource management, conflict resolution and poverty reduction as well as HIVand AIDS awareness.

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila is being urged to release human rights lawyer and former presidential candidate, Marie Therese Nlandu and her associates from prison. The calls come following Nlandu’s trial before a military tribunal in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, on Jan. 24, according to a report by Ambrose Musiyiwa.

The government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf aims to dramatically increase the country’s enrollment rate through the Education for All law that was enacted in 2004. "The enforcement is getting the results we want. Children are now coming from the farms, off the street and into the classrooms," Sirleaf recently told reporters.

HakiElimu is one of the leading CSOs in Tanzania. Our vision is to realize public education and debate that enhances citizen agency, fosters creativity and critical thinking, and advances human rights and democracy. For more information visit or google ‘HakiElimu’. For more information on this position, visit the website.

Ahead of the Senegalese presidential elections on February 25, ARTICLE 19 publishes a new report on the state of freedom of expression in Senegal which presses for the legal, political and institutional framework for freedom of expression in Senegal to be reformed.

Morocco's "march towards light" as its literacy programme is called is brightening up as official figures go, but with far too many shady areas still. Two years after the launch of the programme intended to eradicate illiteracy by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals, officials claim that illiteracy has diminished to 38 percent of the population of 30 million, from 80 percent in 1960 and 48 percent in 1999.

This long-term training programme will provide intensive training and support for young human rights defenders in the Arab World in order to increase advocacy and monitoring capacity and foster a regional network of human rights advocates.

Population Services International (PSI) is the world's leading non-profit social marketing organization, operating in more than 60 developing countries. PSI creates demand for essential health products and services by using private sector marketing techniques and innovative communications campaigns to motivate positive changes in health behavior.

The Association for Women's Rights in Development - an international, multigenerational, feminist, agenda-setting, creative, future-oriented membership organization working for women's rights - is looking for up to two Program Coordinators to assist in the implementation of AWID's exciting new Strategic Plan.

This paper explores the potential importance of marriage and childbirth as determinants of school-leaving in sub-Saharan Africa and identifies some of the common underlying factors that contribute to premature school-leaving and early marriage and childbearing.

The provision of life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has emerged as a key component of the global response to HIV/AIDS, yet little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children whose parents receive treatment. In this working paper CGD post-doctoral fellow Harsha Thirumurthy and his co-authors use longitudinal household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya to provide the first estimate of the impact of ARV treatment on children’s schooling and nutrition.

Spain has sent several hundred African migrants back to Senegal from the Canary Islands, officials say. Six planes flew them from the island of Tenerife to Saint-Louis in the African country's north-west. The migrants were among more than 30,000 Africans who landed in the Canaries in 2006 after dangerous sea journeys in open wooden boats. Most of those on board were Senegalese, but others were said to be from Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali and Mauritania.

Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW), a youth-led international development agency, is in the process of dramatically increasing its operations and impact. Currently SPW has offices in Australia, India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.