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Female genital mutilation still prevalent in Africa, Middle East
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today called for greater efforts to end female genital mutilation, as the agency marked the International Day against the harmful practice that three million girls and women endure each year.

“Some 70 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital cutting,” UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman said in a message on the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.

“While some communities have made real progress in abandoning this dangerous practice, the rights, and even the lives, of too many girls continue to be threatened,” she added.

Female genital mutilation or cutting is the partial or total removal of the external genitalia – undertaken for cultural or other non-medical reasons – often causing severe pain and sometimes resulting in prolonged bleeding, infection, infertility and even death.

Genital cutting can produce complications during child birth, increasing the chances of death or disability for both mother and child.

Although this practice is in decline, it remains prevalent in many countries and often against national laws, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. In the Central African Republic (CAR), for example, about 28 per cent of women are circumcised despite a 1966 law prohibiting the tradition.

Foncy Kongo, a 29-year old woman from the CAR, works with the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices (CIAF) trying to stop genital cutting in her country.

As a 10-year old growing up in Bria, central CAR, Kongo was used to hearing about girls undergoing circumcision, she told UNICEF.

“It is part of our traditional culture, like a rite of passage into womanhood. Most women in my family are circumcised and even in school there was peer pressure as the girls would contest their womanhood,” she said.

When her turn came she ran away from home only to be dragged back to the house a few hours later.

“I was scared. I'd heard of girls who died because they lost too much blood.”

Kongo did not die but she experienced immense pain and urinal problems after she was circumcised.

In 2008 data shows that 17 per cent of women in Bangui, the CAR capital, are circumcised and more than 71per cent of women in Haute Kotto, where Kongo grew up, are victims of the cultural practice.

In February last year, 10 UN agencies banded together to pledge their support for eliminating the life-threatening practice within a generation and aiming for a major reduction in many countries by 2015, the year the Millennium Development Goals are set to be achieved.

UN News Centre
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February 9, 2009 | 9:13 AM Comments  0 comments



Sudan: Renewed clashes in Darfur
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29 January 2009 – The United Nations and African Union (AU) joint chief mediator for the peace process in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region today expressed grave concern over renewed combat in the southern part of the vast region, saying it undermines hopes for a peaceful settlement of the conflict.

“The escalation of violence violates the spirit of the Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement on the Conflict in Darfur of 2004 and constitutes a breach of various Security Council resolutions,” Djibril Bassolé said in a formal statement released in Khartoum.

Pointing in particular to military clashes involving the Government of Sudan, the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and another rebel group known as the Sudan Liberation Army/ Minni Minawi (SLA/MM), he called on the parties to cease fighting to minimize civilian suffering and create “a conducive environment for a political dialogue.”

The conflict between rebels and the Government and allied Janjaweed militiamen in Darfur has led to an estimated 300,000 deaths since 2003 and forced 2.7 million people to flee their homes.

Renewed fighting in southern Darfur's Muhajeria area that began earlier this month has exposed about 30,000 people to previously unseen levels of violence, destroyed an aid agency's office and forced the world body to relocate its staff.

Condemning the renewed attacks, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all parties in Darfur to commit to an immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities and to intensify efforts to come to a comprehensive political agreement with the assistance of Mr. Bassolé.

UN News Centre

January 30, 2009 | 5:45 PM Comments  0 comments

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Ban : La lutte contre la faim dans le monde doit revenir au premier plan des priorités
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Round of applause: The hunger relief in the world must return in the foreground of the priorities
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Round of applause: The hunger relief in the world must return in
the foreground of the priorities
January 27 - a billion being human suffer from the hunger at present, deplored
Tuesday the Secretary general of UNO, Ban Ki-moon, in Madrid, where it invited to replace
the question with foreground of the priorities thanks to reliable mechanisms of financing.
“Whereas the prices increased, we carried out an increase in the humane
action urgently without preceding against the hunger and malnutrition” in 2008, pointed out
Mr. Round of applause at the time of the top on the food crisis which proceeded in the Spanish capital.
But it is not sufficient: in 2008, the United Nations and the international community were not able to forward
of the seeds and of manures to all the small farmers who needed some for two seasons for harvest, it
insisted.
It was appropriate that one needed a more effective mechanism of coordination to reach that point, before exposing the conclusions of
the group of high level experts on the food crisis, set up last year.
“It is necessary in parallel to set up measurements against the hunger and to improve food safety, to widen the social
protection of most vulnerable, to improve the agricultural production and to make so that the mechanisms of exchange function in
favour of poorest”, Ban Ki-moon pled.
Partnerships should, secondly, be supported, in particular by creating a world Partnership for agriculture and food safety.
Lastly, it is necessary to provide to the countries which need some a more accessible external assistance. “But if we do not have
a reliable financial mechanism, the money will not come”, it insisted.
At the end of the top, the Secretary general thanked Spain for his gift of 200 million euros per annum over five years for
the hunger relief in the world, inviting the other givers to make in the same way. At least 15 countries made
promises of gift, technical aid and political support to eliminate the hunger.

source: http://www.un.org/french/newscentre/pdf/2009/27012009Fr.pdf

January 28, 2009 | 4:45 PM Comments  0 comments

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Trafic d'enfants au Cameroun
Related to country: Cameroon

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Traffic of children in Cameroun
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This text right to enable you to read this article raising the existence of the phenomenon of traffic of the children in Cameroun and in the close countries, Cameroun apart from being a country provider of children, is also useful like country of transit for nearby countries, for removed children of other countries.
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Kribi: 54 passengers of a boat escape dead
Écrit by Joseph ABENA ABENA
Heavy suspicions of traffic of children weigh on the crew.

“The state of this dugout gives shivers”. It is in these terms that the public prosecutor close the courts of Kribi qualified the boat which failed broad yesterday morning of Kribi. It was at a working session that the prefect of the Ocean chaired following the accident.
The artisanal boat failed the beach of Londji, to approximately 10 km of the town of Kribi. The cries of distress were spread in the small village. “We started to fight against death in open sea, because certain boards had already yielded, and water entered of any share”, testifies a Cameronian member to the crew.
The boat left Benign and made stopover in Nigeria, before continuing the voyage last Saturday with like final destination Gabon. It had on board 54 people including 24 Beninese, 11 Nigerians, 10 Ghanaians, 7 Burkinabes, 1 Malians, and 1 Cameronian. One could count 16 girls from 7 to 20 years and 2 little boys of 3 and 5 years. According to local authorities', On the 54 passengers, 51 does not have parts of identification.
The prefect of the Ocean, accompanied by, under prefect of Kribi and of the gripping force public prosecutor of the order is descended on the spot from the accident. The 54 victims were put in the integrated center of health of Londji, where they received a medical examination revealing a satisfying health.
However, several observers are unanimous on the assumption of a traffic of the children. They were 18 in the boat. “It is about a case of traffic of children with the network which leaves Benign, crosses the hinged plate of Nigeria with for point of fall Gabon”, thinks the departmental delegate of the social Affairs of the Ocean, Bernard Dieudonné Ngué. In the urgency, it distributed bread, water and sardines with the survivors. Two years before, a shipwreck had taken place on the same beach making 275 dead.
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We think that many things remain to be made as well on the level of the government as on the level of the organizations of fight against the traffic of the children to make move back the plague.
We call some with the supports of the ones and others to make stop the phenomenon in our areas.

July 8, 2008 | 5:55 PM Comments  0 comments

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Le travail et le trafic des enfants au Cameroun.
Related to country: Cameroon

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Child work and traffic in Cameroun.
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On June 12, 2008, celebrates the 7th edition of the World Day against the Child Work.
In recall, the articles 1st of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (http://www.unicef.org/voy/french/explore/rights/explore_157.html) and 2 of Convention N° 182 (http://www.tripalium.com/bienvenue/legislation/OIT-ENFANTS1.htm) of ILO concerning the prohibition of the worst shapes of work children and the action immediate for their elimination define the child as any 18 old human year be less. Being regarded as more vulnerable than any other group of ages, the children are particularly exposed with the exploitation and violence. Thus they are the subject of traffic at ends of exploitations of their work. One uses them at ends of prostitutions, sale of drug, servants, man? uvres, workmen, waiter of bar, etc… This sad truth comparable to slavery, is worsened by the combined effects of the economic crisis, the weakening of the family bonds and the distress which not only throw the children in the street, but push the parents entrusted their children to relations who are in the shade of the intermediaries for networks of traffickers of children at ends of exploitations of their work and others.
In Cameroun, the phenomenon exists indeed, and one found there at one time two types of traffic: internal traffic and transborder traffic. A law was voted in Cameroun by the French National Assembly to fight against this plague which reduces the human being in a thing.
Our combat, it is to give to the young people tools which will make it possible to help to stop this plague. Then let us fight against the traffic and the work the children for a company righter and who grant to all his/her children the same chances.

Here some bonds towards articles treating of the phenomenon with Cameroun.
http://www.cameroon-info.net/cmi_show_news.php?id=5922
http://ipsnews.net/fr/_note.asp?idnews=3179
http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/068/article_37996.asp


June 9, 2008 | 5:16 AM Comments  0 comments

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