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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe entrepreneurs struggle with hyperinflation

afrol News / Gender Links, 23 July - As hyperinflation has hit Zimbabwe - with price increases in incalculable millions of percent - both consumers and traders struggle to understand pricing, resulting in many small entrepreneurs miscalculating and losing money instead of earning it after a hard day's work.

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Uganda
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3 million Ugandan minors risked forced labour

afrol News, 12 June - Close to three million Ugandan minors risked forced labour either by parents or poor economic living conditions, Uganda's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Syda Bbumba, revealed.

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Senegal | Ghana
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West African migrants bailed

afrol News, 1 April - A new program aimed at engaging West African women migrants in the development of their countries has been launched in Italy.

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Liberia
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'Ghana mistreats refugees'

afrol News, 20 March - The international community has been urged to pile pressures on the Ghanaian government and the UNHCR to protect the human rights of refugees in Ghana.

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Southern Africa
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'Eliminate harmful cultural practices'

ZANIS/Times of Zambia News , 3 March - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for concerted efforts in harmonizing customary and common laws to eliminate harmful cultural practices.

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» 19.12.2006 - Activists scold Gambia for harassing prostitutes
» 22.11.2006 - Botswana army rolls out carpet for women
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 19.10.2006 - "Global Fund not for 1st ladies"
» 29.11.2005 - Malawi reviews marriage, divorce laws
» 09.11.2005 - Namibia urged to decriminalise sex workers
» 31.10.2005 - Growing prostitution observed under Zambia food crisis
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 26.01.2005 - Togo's working women want more influence
» 30.06.2004 - Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 09.03.2004 - Women's development highlighted in Djibouti
» 08.03.2004 - African AIDS widows left without inheritance
» 22.01.2004 - Somali women more engaged in decision-making
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