By Harriet Chibuta & Joseph Eliabson Maniragena While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still live on less than US$ 1.90 per day – the internationally agreed poverty line. We talked to Dorothy Chulu from Maiteneke area, and she told us[…]
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Families believed that marrying off their girl child would get them out of poverty
News Apr 22, 2020
Civil Society calls for governmental and non-governmental actors to apply the “Leave No one Behind” principle when responding to COVID-19
News Mar 26, 2020
Civil Society calls for governmental and non-governmental actors to apply the “Leave No one Behind” principle when responding to COVID-19 Thursday, 26 March 2020 On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that an outbreak of the viral disease COVID-19 – first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China – had reached the level of[…]
African Monitor to continue tackling illicit financial flows African Monitor (AM), in collaboration with Economic Justice Network (EJN) hosted a round-table workshop for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) engagement on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) in the coal and gold sectors from 22-24 November 2017 in Pretoria. This workshop builds on previous work on IFFs conducted by[…]
June has been marked as youth month in South Africa, with a specific focus on 16 June, which is also known as Youth Day. The day is about paying tribute to the school pupils who lost their lives during the 16 June 1976 uprising in Soweto. This year marks the 41st anniversary of the Soweto uprising.[…]
Since 2013, African Monitor has included nearly 80 000 voices of young people across Africa, who have since lent their time to the Voice Africa’s Future programme, to pronounce the future as they see it for themselves. The voices of Africans are at the forefront of realizing Africa’s emancipation. We are united in our efforts[…]