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Poverty Exposes
Children To Violence in Africa:
Mozambique Fights Poverty by Investing in Agriculture:
TV and Radio Station Gives Somalis a Voice In Mogadishu
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.A new UN study says millions of children
around the world are victims of many forms of violence.
UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director, Rima Salah, says
that poverty makes African children more vulnerable
to violence by traffickers and unscrupulous individuals
who employ them."Because of poverty, more
and more children are being trafficked. From where I
was in West Africa, we have the largest number of girls
between let's say ten and twelve who work at homes.
And usually they are mistreated, so this is a big problem."
 As
the UN observes the World Food Day, the Prime Minister
of Mozambique, Luisa Diogo talks about how her country
is fighting poverty by investing in agriculture. She
says the private and public sectors are working together
to develop agriculture.
In the midst of chaos and lawlessness
in Mogadishu, Somalis got a voice to express their views,
thanks to HornAfrik, the first independent television
and radio station in the country. One of its founders,
Mohamed Elmi tells UN Radio that giving the civilians
of Mogadishu a voice is electrifying. "Once
the community communicates among themselves, it lets
people really to talk person to person. It lets people
to exchange ideas. They exchange what is needed in Mogadishu
to be done today. What is bothering them, who is killing
them, who is supporting them."
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UN
Human Rights Office Calls for Independent Probe
into Attacks in Darfur;
Jan Egeland Says World Must Pressure Sudan to
Accept UN Force;
UN Envoy Sees Hope for Democracy in the Gambia
As the crisis continues in the troubled
western Darfur region of Sudan, where armed militias
attack civilians and kill civilians, the Office
of the UN Human Rights Commissioner has urged
the government of Sudan to order an independent
investigation into these attacks. Spokesman Jose
Diaz says there were massive attacks and possibly
hundreds of people killed:
"Whatever the cause of the conflict, the
fact is that it deals with massive and grave violations
of human rights occurring on a daily basis. Things
are, according to all accounts getting worse even
since the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement
in May."
The Top UN Humanitarian Coordinator,
Jan Egeland, says pushing for a UN Nations force
in Darfur should not be left to Western Countries.
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 Tenth anniversary of the Rwandan
genocide: Why did the genocide happen?
Why was the UN unable to prevent the killings
or stop the massacres? What lessons have been
learned? Transcript
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Reflections
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