The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa is a pan-African NGO that works towards the promotion and protection of human rights and development, through the implementation of African human rights treaties. The Institute will hold its Fifth Annual Workshop on Procedures of the African Regional Human Rights system. The workshop will give participants practical, concrete knowledge of how to use African human rights treaties and enforcement mechanisms in their work.

We are looking for dynamic and competent candidates to fill the Country Director positions in the countries in Africa where we work. These are very senior leadership and management positions in the organisation directly reporting to the Africa Regional Director and having functional relationships with counterparts in Africa and other divisions and regions of ActionAid.

Save the Children has been successfully working in Angola since 1989 and our programme has brought widely recognised improvements to children's lives. Our work has included pioneering work in family tracing as well as nutrition, management of health systems and strengthening community social structures. As the Programme Director, you will be critical in leading the programme forward in a new direction in response to the changes in the context in Angola since the ceasefire in April 02 and subsequent cessation of civil war.

Concern Universal's mission is to enhance the dignity and to improve the lives of people living in poverty; to enable people to help themselves by providing practical opportunities to create a better future; to work with determination and care to empower people in need, regardless of race, gender, religion or political affiliation.

With responsibility for Christian Aid's Burundi Programme, you will manage the staff and field office, develop Christian Aid's policy and programme, and contribute to the strategic planning of the wider team.

The Iringa International School is in search of several full-time Primary and Secondary School teachers. These are full-time, 35 hour a week, multi-subject teaching schedules. The hours are, generally, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 8 to 1:30 Fridays. Applicants must be passionate and experienced in the subject area, for which they are applying, disciplined workers, creative, team players, and above all caring teachers.

The Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) has gave the government an ultimatum to address its concerns to avert a possible strike early next month. Leonard Nkala, the Zimta president, said the Public Service Commission should address the teachers' demands or risk industrial action.

Scores of township schools are facing closure or are standing empty despite widespread overcrowding of classrooms around South Africa. Hassan Lorgat, spokesman for the South African Democratic Teachers' Union, said pupils were leaving township schools because they thought schools in the suburbs offered better education and were less dangerous.

On 27 January 2003, Penelope Paliani-Kamanga, deputy chief reporter for the "Daily Times", Malawi's oldest daily, was shot in the knee by a rubber bullet. The shot was fired by Blantyre anti-riot police, who fired shots to disperse demonstrators. Members of civil society were demonstrating against the tabling of a bill in Parliament aimed at allowing President Bakili Muluzi to serve a third term in office.

Ethiopia’s federal police have beaten up clergymen and tortured religious demonstrators, the country’s human rights watchdog claimed on Thursday. The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) said the assaults occurred after clashes between police and demonstrators at Addis Ababa's Lideta Mariam Orthodox church on 26 December.

Set up in January 2001 by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Umuchigbo community, the Umuchigbo centre is one of 113 early childhood education centres set up on an experimental basis in 10 states in central and southeastern Nigeria with an estimated population of 28 million people. They now have a joint enrolment of 12,108 children managed by 459 teachers or caregivers. The centres are part of a new initiative to give Nigerian children the best possible start in life.

Fatherland TV, a rebel-run television, shows how new recruits, some as young as 13, go through the rigours of military training in northern Cote d'Ivoire. One of the recruits, Alpha Soumahoro, a high school dropout from Bouake, the second city of Cote d'Ivoire, which is held by rebels, says he is fighting to restore the ‘dignity' of his ethnic group, the Dioulas.

The Sierra Leone TRC is currently looking for up to six investigators to work on a one year contract pursuing the objectives of the TRC, that is, the investigation of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law during the conflict in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 1999. The positions are rated at approximately the P4-P5 level, and salary can run up to about $7,000 per month. Please send c.v.s and other relevant information to [email][email protected]

President Levy Mwanawasa says his New Deal Government is unable to complete phase two of a magistrates court complex because of financial constraints and appealed to cooperating partners to assist. Mr Mwanawasa said it was Government’s wish that the project was fully completed as designed, but lacked the capacity to embark on the construction of phase II which required US$2 million dollars.

The South African-based Africa Foundation and US-based Kids for Africa have struck a partnership to encourage students to raise funds for rural schools. Their "Lights for Learning" initiative is targeting US$10,000 to electrify a rural school near Durban. Other partnership initiatives in the pipeline will fundraise for environmental projects.

Among the daunting humanitarian challenges facing Ethiopia is the need to improve and strengthen basic education. The national gross enrollment rate, while on the rise, was 51 percent in 1999/2000, while girls' enrollment stood at 41 percent.

Once more attention is on education following the recent High Level Group on Education for All (EFA) meeting held in Abuja by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in conjunction with the Federal Government and other related international agencies. UNESCO has classified Nigeria among countries that may miss the 2015 deadline for the provision of Education for All if urgent action is not taken.

One hundred and fifty five under-age girls underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in Marakwet District last month, a human rights report indicates. The report released by the Eldoret based Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (CHRD) shows Kipyego division led with 58 girls reported to have undergone the rite.

Somali parents are paying smugglers up to US $10,000 to take their children abroad, as part of a lucrative and exploitative international child-smuggling business. Faced with desperate choices, many parents who see no future in their own country allow their children to be abandoned by "agents" at airports and railway stations in European and North American countries.

Primary and secondary school teachers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have decided to indefinitely extend their strike for the immediate payment of their salary arrears. "Eighty percent of the teachers are observing the strike," Malachie Mbokane, the chairman of the Interfederale des enseignants de Centrafrique, a umbrella confederation of five teachers' trade unions, told IRIN on Tuesday.