Time Line For Burkina Faso

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Burkina Faso

Activities to inform the populace about this practice continued in 1997. A workshop was held on strategies to fight against this practice by Islamic organizations. Several mosques in Ouagadougou were used for this campaign. A second campaign focused on Catholic leaders in Ouagadougou parishes. Information sessions about the harmful effects of the practice were held for 25 gendarmes in Ouagadougou. The purpose was to train them to disseminate this information among their colleagues and to collect information on excisors so they could watch them for possible FGM/FGC activities. A similar workshop was held with judicial and administrative officers and lawyers to inform them about the harmful consequences of the practice and ways to enforce the law against the practice. ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Ouagadougou offers limited, mostly part-time, employment opportunities for spouses or dependents. Although spouses and dependants with strong French are welcome to explore employment opportunities with international organizations or local employers, most spouses who work in Ouagadougou are employed by the Embassy or teach at the International School of Ouagadougou (ISO), as there are limited employment opportunities for non-French speakers. Depending on availability of funds, the Embassy often has PIT (part-time, intermittent, and temporary) positions. Present positions include the Community Liaison Officer and the Administrative Assistant for the Management Officer and the GSO. Position vacancies are posted and announced in the Ouaga Kibe (the post’s publication). Other short-term personal service contracts are developed based on Mission needs. Outside the Embassy, spou ... [Read More]

2006 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM

NOTE: Entries must include the name, date and place of birth of the applicant's spouse and all natural children, as well as all legally-adopted and stepchildren, who are unmarried and under the age of 21 (except children who are already U.S. citizens or Legal Permanent Residents), even if you are no longer legally married to the child's parent, and even if the spouse or child does not currently reside with you and/or will not immigrate with you. Note that married children and children 21 years or older will not qualify for the diversity visa. Failure to list all children will result in your disqualification for the visa. (See question 11 on the list of Frequently Asked Questions.) ... [Read More]

The United States Diplomatic Mission To Nigeria: Information Section - Crossroads - Food For All

Tanko had been married for only a few months in 2002 when his wife discovered during a hospital prenatal check that she was infected with HIV. She was immediately asked to bring Tanko along the next time for a test as well. 1Tanko (not his real name), though, tested negative for HIV. Still unsure of the results, he went for two more tests, both of which showed the same result. 1As Tanko resolved his own status, he and his wife began to search for answers to other questions. Would the couple’s unborn child get the virus? They discovered that Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF) runs a telephone hotline to answer just those questions. 1Taking the initiative, a distraught and apprehensive Tanko called YEF’s hotline. YEF Hotline Manager Bankole Olatosi said that counselors at the hotline determined that Tanko’s wife was probably living with HIV for three or fours years before she discovered she was infected. However, she apparently had not passed it to Tanko. ... [Read More]

Cote d'Ivoire

Section 6 Worker Rightsa. The Right of AssociationThe Constitution and the Labor Code grant all citizens, except members of the police and military services, the right to form or join unions, and worker exercised these rights in practice. Registration of a new union required 3 months. The three largest labor federations were the General Union of Workers of Cote d'Ivoire (UGTCI), the Federation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Cote d'Ivoire, and Dignite, which became inactive. Unions legally are free to join federations other than the UGTCI. Only a small percentage of the workforce was organized, and most laborers worked in the informal sector that included small farms, small roadside and street side shops, and urban workshops. However, large industrial farms and some trades were organized. There was an agricultural workers union. The law prohibits anti-union discrimination. Th ... [Read More]

Global Issues:AIDS "Reaching a Turning Point"

This is a time of great opportunity when it comes to AIDS in the developing world -- a time of political opportunity, as exemplified by the strong commitment to respond to AIDS by numerous heads of state, and by the debates on AIDS in Africa at the U.N. Security Council in January 2000, initiated by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and at the World Bank/IMF Development Committee last April. It is also a time of opportunity in terms of resources, with the U.S. government, as well as other donors, greatly increasing funding for AIDS programs in the developing world. Africa alone will need $1,600 to $2,600 million per year to ensure effective prevention programs and basic care. ... [Read More]

II. International Best Practices

Slovenia: Protecting The Most Vulnerable. The Project Against Trafficking and Sex and Gender Based Violence (PATS) provides trafficking awareness information and assistance to asylum-seekers most at risk, especially single females and children separated from their parents. Key elements of the project include: One-on-one information sessions with a social worker for those at risk; information on warning signs and the dangers of falling victim; information about where potential victims can access assistance; access to specialized assistance and protection for victims identified in the asylum procedures; and access to asylum procedures for identified trafficking victims. All at-risk asylum-seekers receive a small book, the purpose of which is disguised, that contains trafficking information and assistance contacts throughout Europe. The project is jointly administered by the Ministry of Interior’s Asylum Section, two local NGOs (Kljuc and Slovenksa Filantropija), and t ... [Read More]

Cote d'Ivoire

Security forces under the Ministries of Defense and Territorial Administration include the Army, Navy, Air Force, Republican Guard, Presidential security force, and the Gendarmerie, a branch of the armed forces with responsibility for general law enforcement. The police forces are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior. There were major divisions within the military based on ethnic and political loyalties. Members of the military participated in seminars on human rights. The Government did not always maintain effective control of the security forces. There were numerous credible reports of instances when security forces acted independently of government authority. The Government and NF security officials committed numerous human rights abuses. ... [Read More]