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RWANDA: Make justice a reality for genocide survivors, urges rights group
NAIROBI Friday, December 19, 2008 (IRIN) - Justice, more than reconciliation, plays a fundamental role for the survivors of Rwanda?s 1994 genocide and much more needs to be done to make justice a reality for them, a report by African Rights, a human rights think-tank, recommends.
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AFRICA: Tell us more ? Children call for sex education
DAKAR Thursday, December 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Children in sub-Saharan Africa want to know more about sex and how to protect themselves from HIV, but taboos surrounding children's sexuality can mean life-saving information is kept from them, according to an international NGO.
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AFRICA: World crises ?must not detract from poverty eradication?
ADDIS ABABA Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Initiatives aimed at eradicating poverty in Africa must continue, despite global financial, food, energy and environmental crises, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro, said on 20 November.
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DRC: What will stop the fighting?
JOHANNESBURG Monday, November 10, 2008 (IRIN) - A pledge by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to complement UN peacekeeping forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with SADC soldiers does not take account of the regional body's limited military capacity, a military analyst told IRIN.
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GREAT LAKES: Trying not to repeat history
JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 07, 2008 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is on the brink of slipping back into the kind of devastating international war that raged from 1998 to 2003, according to one of the architects of the Great Lakes peace accords.
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