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31 August 2010 - UNIPSIL Human Rights Section concluded a two days human rights capacity building workshop running from 24-25 August 2010 in Mattru Jong, Bonthe district for chiefdom police officers in the district. Participants were trained on basic human rights, powers of arrest and detention, jurisdiction of local courts under the laws of Sierra Leone, child rights, duties of chiefdom police officers and women’s right.
23 August 2010 - UNIPSIL Human Rights Section personnel participated as facilitators and distributed human rights materials in a five-day training (16th -20th August 2010) for 50 personnel of the Sierra Leone Police. The training was organized by the Sierra Leone Police in collaboration with UNIPSIL, UNICEF and the Sierra Leone Red Cross with funds from GTZ at the Police training School in Hastings, Freetown.
11, 12 and 13 August 2010 - UNIPSIL Human Rights in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone held regional consultative forums in preparation for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Kenema, Bo and Makeni respectively. The program aimed at sensitizing civil society groups, government agencies and NGOs on the significant role they could play in providing inputs towards the report which will be sent to UN Human Rights Council.
Programmes, to reverse the circumstances of our young people, should be created to develop youth as a resource for sustainable development, said Dr Algashim O.Jah, Deputy Minister for Education, Youth and Sports at the launch of the International Year of Youth. 12 August 2010, Freetown — The role youth can play to address global challenges, such as the ideals of peace, respect for human rights and solidarity across generations, was highlighted at the launch of the International Year of Youth (IYY) in Freetown, today.
Freetown, 28 July 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme Executive Board has recently approved changes to its country portfolio which will allow it to better reach hungry vulnerable and malnourished people in Sierra Leone and support the government’s Agenda for Change until the end of 2012. An increase of US$23 million in the ongoing Country Programme budget will allow WFP to reach an additional 135,200 vulnerable people, bringing the number of beneficiaries to 314,500.
Freetown- 25 June 2010-- The United Nations Population Fund in Freetown Sierra Leone has produced a film on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone entitled, A Broken Calabash…Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone: Causes and Interventions. The film explores causes arising from socio-cultural traditions as well as modern conditions that impact on a women’s maternal health and subsequent mortality or morbidity in Sierra Leone. Equally highlighted is the absence of essential infrastructure and communication that makes health care inaccessible to women living in remote rural areas.
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