Centre for Social Concern Campaigns for improved conditions for Tenancy Labour in Malawi

Centre for Social Concern (CFSC) campaigns for high quality and quantity production and tenancy labour in Malawi. This is as a result of core aims of the Centre to significantly contribute towards critical and action-oriented issues in the fight against persistent high level of poverty to improving the economy. Centre for Social Concern Campaigns for improved conditions for Tenancy Labour in Malawi: Centre for Social Concern Campaigns for improved conditions for Tenancy Labour in Malawi

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Prohibiting Corporal Punishment is Crucial To Ending Violence against Children in South Africa

Today, Sonke Gender Justice in collaboration with Africa Child Policy Forum, The Africa Experts Committee on the Rights and the Welfare of the Child, Child Helpline International, Plan International, Save the Children and UNICEF launched the Action on Violence against Children campaign. This is a multi-country campaign initially focusing on Kenya, Tanzania, Swaziland, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi and Zambia. The number of reported cases of sexual, physical and emotional violence against children in Eastern and Southern Africa is horrifying - and these are just the instances we know about. In South Africa - a country with one of the highest levels of interpersonal violence, including violence against children - prohibiting corporal punishment offers a catalytic opportunity to reduce violence. Prohibiting Corporal Punishment is Crucial To Ending Violence against Children in South Africa

Malawi:- Cowardly DPP’s tyranny meets its match

WE find ourselves not having much to say about what happened Saturday within Malawi’s governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) when its vice president was dismissed from the party. Scratch that. We do have something to say. This is not about Vice President Joyce Banda, the person, or that of education minister, Peter, Pres Bingu wa Mutharika’s younger brother. It’s about principle. The Maravi Post‘s position has been about the adulterated process used in giving an unfair advantage to the vice president’s rival; the raping of democracy by those who falsely claim to be fair, open or liberal and progressive—the Democratic Progressive Party. DPP's actions, some of them sexist, attest to the fact that there's nothing democratic and progressive about it. For some time now, it has been established that the party prefers to deal ruthlessly with members it finds disobedient. Apart from Banda, the party also got rid of Khumbo Kachali, the man it sent to suspend three legisla...

Mutharika declares ten districts 'disaster areas' as 23,000 Malawians are displaced by floods

The entire southern Lower Shire Valley bordering Mozambique has also been declared a 'disaster area'. Vice President Saulos Chilima, government officials and journalists Tuesday aborted a planned tour to inspect the effects of the damage in the valley because the military helicopter could not fly due to bad weather. Mutharika appealed to the international community and NGOs to assist the flood victims. He said at least 23, 000 people have been made homeless following the flooding. He said the displaced people immediately need temporary shelter, food, medicine and clothing. "Government alone cannot afford so I appeal to the international community for urgent assistance," he said. Over 20 people across the country have died following the flooding.-maravipost Mutharika declares ten districts 'disaster areas' as 23,000 Malawians are displaced by floods : Mutharika declares ten districts 'disaster areas' as 23,000 Malawians are displaced by floods

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