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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Winnie Mutuku has managed to sustain a feeding program for street children and families in Kitale, a town in western Kenya about 280 miles from the capital, Nairobi.
Mutuku, who manages Upendo Street Children -- a project run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul -- has reunited many children with their families to avoid their being arrested by police during curfew hours.
Currently, I'm working on developing a new project for street children in the western part of Kenya [Kitale] where the Daughters of Charity have been engaged in services for 11 years.
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I came to Kitale in July last year to do a feasibility study in preparation to respond to the issues of street children in Kitale town.
Is there something about the charism of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul that has made you focus on the needs of the street children?
ZANU PF legislator Tatenda Mavetera (pictured) (proportional representation) has called for a 50% youth quota representation in Parliament, saying Zimbabweans must be embarrassed that its youthful population is still marginalised. By NQOBANI NDLOVU Mavetera said this last week while moving a motion calling on the country to craft enabling legislation to guarantee that youths also get seats in Parliament. The current Constitution only provides for 60 proportional representation seats for women, as well as two Senate seats for people with disabilities (PWDs). There are also proposed amendments through the Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill, which is currently before Parliament to include a 10% youth quota in the legislative body. “What we are saying as youths is that now we are talking of affirmative action or the youth quota, where we would really like to have at least 25% seats going to the young people, but 25% is the minimum, because we are saying that we would want even more or even 50% on the basis that the youth constitute 70% of the population,” Mavetera said. “We are now marginalised on the demographic dividend, which we are saying we (youth) have got the large numbers and for that alone we are just hoping and it is a fervent call, not that we are demanding the seats,” she said. The young Zanu PF MP said there is a need to enact a national youth policy so that the proposals for 50% youth representation and empowerment of young people are enforceable. A number of parliamentarians supported her motion with Gweru Urban MP Brian Dube (MDC Alliance) adding that Zimbabwe must be embarrassed that to date there is no quota for youth representation in Parliament. “What we are talking about is that we must come up with a law. It must not come as a voluntary gesture or generosity when we are dealing with issues of the youths. “Is there any reasonable justification in a democratic society why we do not have a law that regulates the rights and interests of 70% of the population? My answer is that there is no reasonable justification at all,” he said. In August, the Community Youth Development Trust (CYDT) petitioned Parliament protesting over lack of youth representation from the district up to the national level. The CYDT demanded a 30% youth quota.
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Resources to deal with the pandemic are often diverted from women’s health services, with lasting effects on their children, their families, and their economies.
We call for multi-stakeholder partnerships that allow women, children and adolescents to take part in decisions that profoundly affect their health and wellbeing.
A hopeful precedent: global co-operation in peacetime
As the open letter says, if COVID-19 remains in any country, it will re-emerge and prolong this economic and health crisis.
Para 2, ‘A recent study in the Lancet…’ – Roberton T, Carter ED, Chou VB, Stegmuller AR, Jackson BD, Tam Y, Sawadogo-Lewis T, Walker N. Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study.
Para 3, ‘Child death rates have almost halved…’ – 4, ‘Resources to deal with the pandemic are diverted from women’s health services…’ – 5, ‘…in Sierra Leone, more than 3,500 people died of Ebola…’ –
Para 5, ‘…an estimated 3,600 mothers and babies died…’ –
Para 6, ‘…the Guttmacher Institute warns…’ –
Para 7, ‘… between 42 and 66 million children will fall into extreme poverty …’ – ‘Impact of COVID on Children’ –
