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/ 21 October 2005
Relief agencies in Pakistan fear children separated from their families in the post-earthquake chaos are at risk from human traffickers and childless couples. Thousands of injured children have been flown by helicopter from the areas worst hit by the October 8 quake that devastated Kashmir and North West Frontier province
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/ 15 October 2003
Beyond the protracted anti-retroviral debate in South Africa is a worrying lack of attention to the "shelter and services needs" of families with members who are HIV-positive or living with Aids. Local government has been fingered as the villain for failing to deliver basic services — it must, argues a prominent scholar, get its act together.
The SA Local Government Association said it would set up a legal advice centre to assist municipalities and councillors on the new defection legislation.