The Youth Program Specialist leads and manages the youth and socio-professional program for Save the Children's Children in Emergencies and Crises Project in Guinea. The Specialist provides technical support to field staff on youth and socio-professional training programs and serves as liaison with host country authorities, NGO representatives and UN officials. As importantly, he/she will manage one of three SC field offices in Guinea and be responsible for administrative, financial and logistical duties. The position requires frequent travel within Guinea and occasional regional and international travel.

The International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) invites applications from college seniors, recent graduates or graduate students who wish to spend nine months (Sept - May) working as International Fellows in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The International Fellows Program (IFP), created in 1987, provides a diverse group of Fellows an opportunity to work overseas for organizations such as Africare, UNAIDS, CARE, Save the Children, TechnoServe, and Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI) on various types of development activities.

The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) declared last Friday that it should be the human right of an infant to be breastfed.

A government-sponsored program that includes HIV/AIDS prevention, counseling and testing, as well as antiretroviral treatment, could help save nearly three million lives and prevent almost as many new infections in South Africa by 2015, thereby averting a "social catastrophe," according to a report released last Thursday by the Treatment Action Campaign.

Four months after the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria granted millions of dollars to the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, there is still uncertainty over how the government intends to use the money.

Insufficient information supplied by applicants has led the National Lotteries Board and the Distribution Agency for Arts, Culture and National Heritage to reject a number of applications submitted during the current funding round.

The Director of the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) responds to criticism from the National Lotteries Board on the report "Smoke and Mirrors", commissioned by the Non Profit Partnership and researched by the CCS.

The National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund is distributing only three cents for every rand that South Africans spend on the Lotto, reports the Sunday Times. It is alleged that the National Lotteries Distribution Fund is also a billion rand behind in payment to charities.

IRC has been operational in Republic of Congo since November 1997. IRC’s current programs include a refugee support project in Betou (northern RoC), which serves the health, water/sanitation, shelter and educational needs of approximately 30,000 refugees from DRC and 800 refugees from CAR.

Two years ago wealthy countries promised resources for all developing nations committed to "Education for All." But since then very few resources have been forthcoming, charges an Oxfam International report released in advance of this week's World Bank meeting.

Do African adolescents know enough about AIDS to protect themselves against infection? What is the best way to educate them about the risks of HIV? A report from Population Services International evaluates a peer-led HIV prevention programme in a secondary school in Zambia.

Between 3000 to 4000 children mostly from developing countries die every day in the world because their mothers are not empowered or supported to breastfeed their babies, a global meeting on Challenges of Breastfeeding in the 21st Century was told in Arusha.

Some 240 000 teachers around Kenya went on indefinite strike on Monday over a long-standing pay dispute with the government, which they reproach for not paying a 200 percent hike promised in 1997, their union officials said.

Responding to low levels of basic education and a high rate of illiteracy, the West African country of Burkina Faso last week launched a programme to raise school enrolment throughout the country from 40 to 70 percent by 2010.

Amnesty International in Bujumbura has published a new report - Poverty, isolation and ill-treatment: Juvenile Justice in Burundi -which highlights the multiple abuses children are suffering at the hands of the law.

The Institute of International Education (IIE), Open Society Institute, and the Scholars at Risk Network announce the autumn application cycle for fellowships from IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund, supporting scholars who are threatened by violations of their fundamental human rights including threats caused by displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment, intimidation, or violence.

Oxfam GB is implementing integrated programmes (food assistance, livelihood support and public health) in response to the food crisis in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. To ensure effective and accountable operations, Oxfam requires Logisticians across the region.

This is an immediate short-term appointment for a period of three to four months to augment the Africa Division's research on DRC while the search for the full-time DRC Researcher is underway (the Interim Researcher hired on this short-term basis may also request consideration as the DRC Researcher). The researcher will be based in one of HRW's offices (New York, Washington DC, London or Brussels) and should be prepared to travel frequently to the region to monitor violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in DRC.

Technikon Southern Africa (TSA) is a higher education institution that focuses on learning programmes within the Mode 2 knowledge production paradigm. TSA offers its learning through a distance delivery mode, supported by a tutor system in the nine provinces and beyond. We have established a regional Curriculum Project with the aim of developing an online course in outcomes-based/Mode 2 curricula in Higher Education. We would welcome participation from educationists/experts from AU, EU and other countries who have the knowledge and skills in course design and especially, but not exclusively, those with knowledge of online learning and teaching. If you are interested and have the time, please contact Doreen at the email provided below. The deadline for declaration of interest is 31 October 2002.

The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) has expressed its "grave concern" at the widespread violence against girls in Sudan in the private and community spheres as well as at the hands of state officials.