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ACT International warns of a dramatic escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, if Israel, Hamas and other militant groups do not cease the current hostilities and avert a new military conflict.
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Security situation:The situation in North Kivu is relatively calm at the moment.
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
However, clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in both Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Read more...
After the death of the 3rd Republican President of Zambia, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, on 19th August 2008, by-elections were announced and were eventually held on the 30th of October within the 90 days stipulated by the Constitution. The overall impression is that the elections were carried out in a free, fair and peaceful manner.
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The first ever National Forum of “Act Development Central Asia” Alliance was successfully held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 6-7. The Forum brought together five international development agencies – ICCO (the Netherlands), DanChurchAid (DCA, Denmark), Christian Aid (United Kingdom), Norwegian Church Aid and Hungarian Interchurch Aid – and more than fifteen non-governmental organisations and microfinance institutions from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. More than 40 representatives of the organisations participated in this historic event.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu nominates DanChurchAid for the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The nomination is backed by the 10 bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and former Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Uffe Elleman-Jensen
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The Danish government has established an Africa Commission on effective development cooperation with Africa.
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The hondurian judicial system is corrupted to the bone, and there is good reason to keep an eye on the courts and officials of the central American country.
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DanChurchAid and the Danish NGO-forum invites young people from all over Africa to apply for participation in the African Youth Panel, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 16-19. 2008. The Youth Panel will be a lifetime opportunity to influence the future of Africa by developing recommendations to the further work of the Danish Africa Commission.
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Small seeds for an active civil society are starting to grow in the poor Central Asian Republic Kyrgyzstan where children have to work to get an income to the family
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The past is scary, but the upcoming elections in Angola on September 5th has every possibility to turn a new page in the country’s history
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Even though the regime in Khartoum and the revolutionary movement SPLM in south have been persuaded to lay down their arms, the challenges of gaining permanent peace in Sudan are huge.
This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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This is said by Mads Frilander, programme officer in DanChurchAid in South Sudan.
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In Central Asian countries the fight for women to strengthen their rights and move closer to full partnership with men is well documented by international organizations. One example of such partnership in Kyrgzstan is Avazbek Balthabaev and his wife Paiza Bathaeva, who work as a team in both business and in self-help groups in their community.
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Where have all the young men gone, gone to Russia everyone," might be the modified refrain of a folk song in many a rural village in Tajikistan, at least for the women left behind. This is the 4th part in the series on self help groups in Central Asia, written by Peter Kenny.
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Margarita Zobnina, a medical biologist in the nursing profession, joined a women's group in her native Kazakhstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, at a time when women faced not only increasing impoverishment but also loneliness.
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DanChurchAid and the local partners LICADHO and Legal Aid Cambodia have worked together since 2004 to improve the rights of children in Cambodia.
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Nearly 500 children are currently detained in Cambodia’s prisons. For these children, the prisons they call “home” are overcrowded, unhygienic and lacking in basic facilities. Many are detained with adults, they are regularly held in pre-trial detention that exceeds the legal time limit, and many are sentenced to prison time without any regard to their age. A coalition of local and international groups has called on the government to pass legislation to protect the children.
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DanChurchAid supports Palestinian NGOs in promoting the participation of Palestinian women in the development of a Palestinian society based on equal opportunities, universal principles of human rights and priciples enshrined in Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination.
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Almost all poverty indicators are in regression in Zambia. The situation affects the poor people’s rights, the health system and the food security.
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DanChurchAid aims at ensuring civic and political rights in Zambia for the rural poor, especially women. The development objective is to enable the rural poor and women to exercise their rights.
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