Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday dismissed a report by Human Rights Watch on extrajudicial killings by the Nigerian military in 2001, news agencies reported.

One out of twelve children will die before age five, almost all from preventable causes, the United Nations has announced as it released an updated version of its landmark publication on the world’s children. The child mortality rate and other statistics contained in the report lend gravity to the basic United Nations assertion that serious investment in the rights and development of children is essential to overcoming poverty.

Almost 1,000 people have died from cholera in Malawi since November and about 33,000 infections have been reported up to mid-April, the national health department told IRIN on Friday.

The Southern African Non-Governmental Organisation Network (SANGONeT)is currently expanding the focus and scope of its ICT activities in support of Southern African CSOs. An important part of SANGONeT's work is providing access to and implementing a range of web services. This includes website design, development and maintenance of existing websites. It is looking for a web designer.

The Programme Manager: Projects will be responsible for the management of the technical components of the programme. This will be achieved by the direct line management of the project managers in each sector and ensure effective communication of information between the members of the LMT and projects. These projects include the livestock, water sanitation and hygiene, education and child protection projects. The role requires the promotion of an integrated child focused approach to programme design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation, with an emphasis on child participation.

To be based in our National Office in Johannesburg. We are looking for a person who has a passion for peace and against violence; who does not own a gun and is committed to remaining gun free at home and at work.

On or about April 26, 2002 CREA South Africa, local office of Creative Associates International Inc., under a contract to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will issue RFP (Request for Proposals) No. GMTA-029 to interested South African organizations for the award of a contract for a Formal Assessment of “USAID’s Direct Assistance Support Program to Municipalities.

This three-day course tackles the difficult problem of writing speeches. This course is not about your speciality or discipline, but about how to apply standard methods of speech writing to whatever you have at hand.

Malawi has to wait for IMF to review it's fiscal discipline prior to receiving US$47-million in Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility funding.

British charity has brought hope to AIDS infected children in Grotte Schuur by donating R750,000. The donation will be used for life prolonging drugs which the South African governmnet has expressed safety concerns about.

Africa's international commitment to fight gainst international terrorism recieved a major boost when Norway donated R5 million to boost its capacity.

The NDA has released money to fund operations, recurring expenditure and process activities for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development. This after the the freezing of funds two months ago following allegations of financial mismanagement.

Primary school enrolment in several West African countries is very still low, and in some countries twice as many boys as girls were enrolled in the schools, UNESCO reported on Wednesday. Only a few of those who do not go to school attain a basic level of skills, it added.

We the Children: Meeting the promises of the World Summit for Children is a landmark report issued by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The report assesses the progress made in meeting the commitments made to the children around the globe at the 1990 World Summit for Children. It also includes best practices and lessons learned, obstacles to progress, and a plan of action for building a world fit for children.

The Global Campaign for Education invites global support for primary education for all by making a representation to the G8 to keep up their promise of increasing aid and debt relief for basic education. Individuals can help the GCE by sending an action card to the Canadian government which chairs the meet in June.

Conserve Africa International (CAI) is a diverse UK-based non-profit international environmental. One main of its objectives is to promote medicinal plants and traditional medicine in Africa. CAI is planning to organise an International Symposium on Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Rabat, Morocco on 2- 4 May 2002. More information can be found on their website.

The CEDAW Assessment Tool is designed to measure the status of women through the lens of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW), which has been ratified by 168 countries. The CEDAW Assessment Tool takes a hard look at a nation's laws and measures the degree to which these laws promote and protect the rights of women, as mandated by CEDAW.

A website that exposes human rights abuses associated with child warfare, and advocates for the cessation of the practice. The website also works to facilitate collaboration across continents, and to make connections between children who could previously only read about war in the abstract (in textbooks) and those in their age group who have directly suffered the impact of war. At the same time, ex-child combatants can relate to other youth around the globe, identifying with their peers and hopefully, realizing that they are not alone.

Gender Links, a Johannesburg-based NGO specialising in gender and the media in the Southern African region is looking for a highly motivated and efficient office manager.

GUN FREE SA are looking for a REGIONAL ORGANISER, to be based at their National Office in Johannesburg.