The right of citizens to freedom of expression has, for ages, been brutally suppressed in countries like Ethiopia, where democratic systems have not been established. After the EPRDF (Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front) put the entire country under its control and usurped state power, it accepted and ratified the UN Declaration of Human Rights, approved the charter during the transition period and promulgated the press proclamation. Ever since then, numerous free press publications have been rendering services as alternative sources of information.

An experienced video journalist and project manager to serve in Kigali as Country Director, providing technical advise and training to Internews staff in Rwanda as they continue to produce bi-monthly video newsreels on the justice process for Rwanda is needed. In addition, the Country Director manages the programme budget and coordinates development of budgets for continued programme activities. French language skills, report and proposal writing ability required.

The Director of the PATH/AYA Uganda project office provides day-to-day management of the Kampala office and its staff, representing PATH/AYA at partner meetings and is accountable to the Adolescent Health Strategic Programme Leader and senior PATH management for ensuring that project deliverables and timelines are met. Ideal candidate will have experience living and working in Anglophone Africa with demonstrated cross-cultural skills.

The National Programme on Immunisation (NPI) has just released a report that shows a continuing and dramatic decline in the incidence of fatal childhood diseases in Nigeria. Diseases covered by the report include tetanus, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and cerebrospinal meningitis, which have been responsible for high infant mortality in the country.

The author argues that while the health challenges posed by HIV/Aids are widely recognized, the specific impact of HIV/Aids on children remains poorly documented, analysed and addressed. Much debate has focused on adult prevalence, death rates and ways to control the epidemic in the short-term. This study calls for a new focus on the wider impact of HIV/Aids on children's lives, including falling school enrolment, increased malnutrition and rising poverty.

The International Human Rights Law Group is a non-profit organisation of human rights and legal professionals and activists engaged in advocacy, training and litigation around the world. The Law Group's mission is to empower human rights advocates and defenders at the national level to expand the scope of human rights protection for men and women, and to promote broad participation in building human rights standards at the national, regional and international levels.

The purpose of this job is to guide the development of Fundo de Credíto Comunitário as it becomes a regulated financial institution which promotes sustainable growth among the economically active poor in Mozambique.

MWENGO, the Lesotho Council of NGOs are please to confirm that the 7th Domestic Resource Mobilisation Workshop will take place at the National Convention Centre in Maseru, Lesotho from the 11th to 13th February, 2003.

Thousands of children are being smuggled into Europe from war-ravaged Somalia every year, with Britain the most popular destination, according to a UN report. "Child smuggling from Somali territories is now so widespread that it has become a critical informal institution," the UN information agency report says.

Amnesty International is seeking a Program Director and two Deputy Program Directors to manage the Africa Program of its International Secretariat, responsible for research and campaigning on human rights issues in Africa. The Africa Program has around 50 staff based in London, Kampala, Dakar, Paris and Pretoria. Each of these positions requires an experienced manager with a proven track record in motivation of staff and in the provision of the direction, support and systems to enable them to perform to their full potential. You should bring astute political judgement, a clear vision of how the human rights agenda can be taken forward in Africa and the ability to communicate this persuasively to individuals and groups at all levels.

Is social security, designed to provide protection against various contingencies, well suited to the elimination or redress of large-scale, endemic poverty? This article attempts to contribute to the debate surrounding social security systems in South Africa, as the basic income grant system is now considered not viable.

Pact's Community REACH team is pleased to announce the release of Request for Applications (RFA) #03-C-1. Under this RFA, Pact anticipates awarding on a competitive basis between five to seven subgrants focusing on Reducing Stigma and Discrimination through Innovative and Proven Effective Approaches for a total of US$ 750,000. The purpose of the RFA is to disseminate information about Pact's Community REACH Project for the management of HIV/AIDS sub-grants to prospective PVO and NGO grant recipients in order to provide them with a fair opportunity to submit applications for funding.

The free primary education programme has received a boost from a United Nations agency. Unicef is to give $2.5 million for learning and teaching material for the lower classes in eight districts and in Nairobi. Some 450,000 pupils in Standards One to Three are expected to benefit from the grant.

The European Union has donated 170 million euros (Sh13.8 billion) to rehabilitate the country's dilapidated road network.The money will be used to rehabilitate the Sultan Hamud-Mtito Andei section of the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway and Mai Mahiu-Naivasha-Lanet road. Roads around Mt Kenya will also be upgraded under the five-year project.

About 90 000 houses are to be built for needy South Africans thanks to a R200 million deal between the National Reconstruction and Housing Agency (Nurcha) and an American investment company, Nurcha announced. The money, made available by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic), would be used by Nurcha to underwrite the loans of emerging housing developers and contractors borrowing money from partner banks and micro-financing organisations.

A sum of R30 000 allocated to Whittlesea's anti-Aids campaigners for capacity building by the National Development Agency (NDA) in 2001 has not reached the activists. The money was supposed to be deposited into the bank account of the Whittlesea Anti-Aids Youth Campaigners (WAAYC) on April 2, 2002. WAAYC is an NGO educating people infected and affected by the virus, and also provides home-based care to those living with the virus.

Norway on Tuesday challenged the G-7 countries to follow its example and significantly increase their commitments to education initiatives in the developing world. Hilde Johnson, Norway's Minister for International Development, said this would be the only way of meeting the Dakar Declaration commitments, through which the international community undertook to ensure that no country that attempted to provide education for all its citizens would lack the resources to do so.

United Nations officials in Angola on Wednesday said the reintegration of former child soldiers into civil society was underway despite the scale of the problem confronting the humanitarian community.

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.

Although the Kenyan Constitution was amended in 1997 to guarantee equality between the sexes, in reality discrimination against women persisted in both the private and public spheres, says the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). Expressing its concern in an alternative report to Twenty-Eighth Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women entitled "Violence against Women in Kenya", OMCT said attempts to draft legislation ensuring equality for women had been thwarted, leaving women in Kenya with few laws specifically protecting their rights.