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Toxic Work if You Can Get It

E-waste is piling up in Ghana. For some boys, it signals a job opportunity - but at what cost ...

Issues:  Environment, Child Labour, child labor, human rights, right to health, workplace safety

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | April 24, 2008

 
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Rural Sierra Leonean Library Goes Solar

By Mackay Taggart with files from Joseph B. Bangura   The modern library ...

Issues:  Environment, solar power, Literacy, literacy rights, human rights, Sierra Leone, sustainable development, global commons, information technology

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | April 16, 2008

 
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FGM and Legislation: Is It Working?

  Experts tell JOY FM that practitioners of FGM are smuggling ...

Issues:  Ghana, human rights, Female Genital Mutilation, FGM

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | February 08, 2008

 
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Residents of Accra Slum Resist Government's Resettlement Deadline

Residents of the Sodom and Gomorrah slum say they will need at least six months to resettle to...

Issues:  Ghana, africa, housing, Slums, Humna Rights, Resettlement

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | December 19, 2007

 
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'Briser le silence'

République Démocratique du Congo et Rwanda - La Radio Privée Contact ca...

Issues:  Sexual Violence, République Démocratique du Congo, RDC, DRC, rwanda, War

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | December 12, 2007

 
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Sierra Leone: World's Poorest Country

Freetown, Sierra Leone - Another of Sunkari Conteh’s children is sick. The last t...

Issues:  Sierra Leone, africa, poverty, food security, UNHDR

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | December 12, 2007

 
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Sierra Leone's Presidential Election Results

Freetown, Sierra Leone – “Sierra Leone has fallen from second to last position, to...

Issues:  democracy, riots, human rights, africa, Sierra Leone, elections

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | December 10, 2007

 
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Malawi’s Farmers Given Bittersweet Blessing

Lilongwe, MALAWI – Police gunned a man down on Saturday, the most ...

Issues:  Malawi, africa, Subsidies, aid, poverty, Markets, Police Violence, police brutality, Black Markets

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | December 06, 2007

 
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Journalists for Electricity

Freetown, Sierra Leone – The talk of Freetown is power. The capital city has been witho...

Issues:  Sierra Leone, africa, Accessibility, development, poverty

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | December 06, 2007

 
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Hunting witches in Sierra Leone

A number of children have been killed by witchcraft in a small village in Sierra Leone. Witch...

Issues:  Sierra Leone, africa, religion, Witches

Posted by: Journalists for Human Rights | November 30, 2007

 
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