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A recent flagship report from the United Kingdom's Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (UK-DCEDIY) has revealed that many religious institutions in Ireland have been enabling widespread abuse of unwed mothers and their children - often leading to death (Specia, 2021). Over the past twenty years, the country's 'mother and baby homes' have [...]

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HUMANIUM * We make children's rights happen

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A recent flagship report from the United Kingdom's Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (UK-DCEDIY) has revealed that many religious institutions in Ireland have been enabling widespread abuse of unwed mothers and their children - often leading to death (Specia, 2021). Over the past twenty years, the country's 'mother and baby homes' have [...]

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The terrifying escalation of violence in Gaza and Israel is leaving people in Gaza in urgent need of humanitarian support. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes with nowhere safe to go.

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Oxfam is an international confederation of 21 NGOs working with partners in over 90 countries to end the injustices that cause poverty.

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Our approach is better than short-term charity. In partnership with governments, NGOs and other relief organizations, we build effective support systems with lasting impacts for struggling families. These efforts enable access to education, healthcare services and employment opportunities that are essential to maintaining safe environments for children at risk. Our long-term services-which focus on making families self-reliant-include savings and loan associations, income-generating activities, child rearing classes, health education, emergency response and much more.

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Our approach is better than short-term charity. In partnership with governments, NGOs and other relief organizations, we build effective support systems with lasting impacts for struggling families. These efforts enable access to education, healthcare services and employment opportunities that are essential to maintaining safe environments for children at risk.

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The Borgen Project

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The Borgen Project is working to ensure a strong global response to COVID-19 (coronavirus). We know that not a single country will defeat this highly-contagious virus, until every country has defeated it. Read the latest news on COVID-19 in Africa.

"If there is one country in the world that still has the coronavirus, the whole world has it."

- Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

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This page: https://www.globalissues.org/issue/83/conflicts-in-africa.

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There have been over 9 million refugees and internally displaced people from conflicts in Africa. Hundreds and thousands of people have been slaughtered from a number of conflicts and civil wars. If this scale of destruction and fighting was in Europe, then people would be calling it World War III with the entire world rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation. This article explores why Africa has been largely ignored and what some of the root causes of the problems are.

Read " Conflicts in Africa-Introduction " to learn more.

Into mid-2011, the world's worst food crisis is being felt in East Africa, in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.

Despite successive failed rains, the crisis has been criticized as avoidable and man-made. This is because the situation had been predicted many months before by an international early warning system. Both the international community and governments in the region have been accused of doing very little in the lead up to this crisis. In addition, high food prices have forced food out of the reach of many people, while local conflicts exacerbate the situation.

As the international organization Oxfam describes: 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, and basic sanitation. Loss of life on a massive scale is a very real risk, and the crisis is set to worsen over the coming months, particularly for pastoralist communities.

This page also presents news coverage from Inter Press Service on this crisis.

Read " East Africa Food Crisis 2011 " to learn more.

A wave of protests has erupted throughout the Middle East and North Africa. A combination of the global financial crisis, rising costs of living, high unemployment - especially of educated youth, frustration from decades of living under authoritarian and corrupt regimes, various document leaks revealing more details about how governments around the world are dealing and viewing each other, have all combined in different ways in various countries, leading to a wave of rising anger.

Some protests have become revolutions as governments such as those in Tunisia and Egypt have been overthrown. Others have not got that far but have sometimes been peaceful, other times met with very brutal repression.

Is this a wave of democracy that cannot be stopped, and will forever change the region, and the global power politics?

Read " Middle East and North Africa Unrest " to learn more.

The crisis in Libya comes in the context of wider unrest throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The surge of what looks like spontaneous and ground up pro-democracy protests has been spreading throughout a region long controlled by authoritarian regimes from left and right of the political spectrum, and both pro and anti-West.

Peaceful protests against the long-running oppressive Qadhafi regime in February resulted in a violent crackdown. As the situation quickly escalated ordinary citizens took up arms to help free themselves from Qadhafi's brutal regime. Despite some military defections, the opposition has generally been a disorganized and out-gunned rebel force.

As Qadhafi's forces increasingly targeted civilians the opposition appealed to the international community for a no-fly zone to limit or prevent the bloodbath that Qadhafi threatened.

The West appears to have responded with what looks like a genuine humanitarian intervention attempt. Yet, when looked at a bit more deeply, there are many murky - often contradictory - issues coming to the fore that complicate the picture.

These mixed messages make the future for Libya uncertain. Civil war is how some commentators have already started to describe the conflict, which would imply a long drawn out conflict, not a quick fix that the West hoped for.

Read " Crisis in Libya " to learn more.

Following elections in Cote d'Ivoire in October 2010, both President Laurent Gbagbo and opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, claimed victory. International observers agreed that the Ouattara had won, but Gbagbo refused to accept this.

Negotiations failed and while the world's attention was elsewhere, the situation became volatile and violent outbursts turned into the country's second civil war. Forces supporting Ouattara have swept through the country and Gbagbo's position looks precarious while he remains defiant.

At the same time, possibly a million people are thought to have fled their homes, about 100,000 of which have crossed over into neighboring Liberia. Thousands of civilians have been killed in what observers have found to be mass human rights violations. There have also been reports of massacres and mass graves. UN personnel on the ground have been targeted. There are accusations of violence by both sides.

This situation had been brewing for a long time, and yet, the international community has been comparatively silent compared to how they have reacted to the situation in Libya.

This page presents news coverage from Inter Press Service on this crisis.

Read " Cote d'Ivoire Crisis " to learn more.

AIDS in Africa is said to be killing more people than conflicts.

It causes social disruption as children become orphaned and it affects many already-struggling economies as workforces are reduced.

As an enormous continent, various regions are seeing different results as they attempt to tackle the problem. Numerous local, regional and global initiatives are slowly helping, despite significant obstacles (such as poverty, local social and cultural norms/taboos, concerns from drug companies about providing affordable medicines, and limited health resources of many countries that are now also caught up in the global financial crisis).

Read " AIDS in Africa " to learn more.

An overview of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa that has been described by the World Health Organization as the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak in the history of the disease.

The epidemic began at the end of 2013, in Guinea. From there it spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. Many of the affected countries face enormous challenges in stopping its spread and providing care for all patients.

Thousands of people have died and many are at risk as the fatality rate from this virus is very high. As the crisis worsens, as well as the enormous health challenges involved, the social and economic consequences may set these countries back, reversing some gains a number of these countries have made in recent years.

Read " Ebola Outbreak in West Africa " to learn more.

Read " Africa Links for more information " to learn more.

Read " Geopolitics " to learn more.

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This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at some of the conflicts occurring in Africa. There is hardly any media coverage and yet there have been millions of refugees and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.

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Water Aid

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The leading clean water non-profit, tackling the water crisis, founded 1981. 28+million people reached so far! | WaterAid US

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Clean water saves lives. Our mission is to equip people with sustainable clean water (and decent toilets and hygiene education). We were founded in 1981 and have reached 28.1 million people with clean water, 28.8 million people with decent toilets and 26 million people with hygiene education so far.…

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Social Watch - Use National Reports Menu on Right Hand Side

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"Social Watch is an international network of citizens' organizations in the struggle to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty, to end all forms of discrimination and racism, to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and the realization of human rights.

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UNICEF

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UNICEF's work

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. And we never give up.

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UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to reach the most disadvantaged children and adolescents - and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere.

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World Food Programme

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We work in over 80 countries

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The designations employed and the presentation of material in the map(s) do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of WFP concerning the legal or constitutional status of any country, territory or sea area, or concerning the delimitation of frontiers.

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The Water Project - A Charity Providing Access to Clean Water in Africa

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The Water Project is a charity that provides access to clean, safe and reliable water and sanitation solutions across sub-Saharan Africa, one village at a time.