Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future l 
Message of the Chairperson of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on the occasion of the 22nd Commemoration of the Day of the African Child (DAC), 2012 l 
Prof. Julia Sloth-Nielsen, Member of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa
RWANDA: Orphanages to Be Phased Out By 2014
The Government will gradually phase out all orphanages dotted around the country by 2014, Alexia Mukashema, Technical Assistant in charge of orphans and other vulnerable children in the National Children's Commission, has announced. Read more
NIGERIA: Where is the money to help poisoned children?
Aid organizations and rights groups are putting more pressure on the Nigerian government to release a promised US$5.4 million in aid for lead-poisoned children, but government officials keep ducking the issue. Read more
Addressing hunger precondition for sustained human development in sub-Saharan Africa, UNDP Report sa…
Sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain its present economic resurgence unless it eliminates the hunger that affects nearly a quarter of its people, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) argues in the newly released Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards a Food Secure Future. Read more
SOUTH AFRICA: Report on Violence Against Children to Be Released
The Department for Women, Children and People with Disabilities is to release a review on violence against children, which will include the roles and commitments of all government departments in response to the scourge. Read more
Child deaths: Preventable infections 'the leading cause'
TANZANIA: Concerted efforts needed to save children from malnutrition
Children in Mali suffering from triple disaster, warns UNICEF
UNAIDS launches Believe it. Do it. action campaign to help end new HIV infections among children by 2015
DRC: Reducing the HIV risk of girls living on the street
GHANA: Call for Ratification of Child Labour Conventions
NIGERIA: 2,500 Children Treated for Lead Poisoning - HRW
MADAGASCAR: Peer pressure to stop teen pregnancy
EGYPT: New child marriage laws are a step backwards
One million children at risk of dying from malnutrition in the Sahel – UNICEF
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