2006

GUINEA-BISSAU: UN launches emergency appeal after fighting in north
May 16, 2006 - (IRIN) United Nations agencies on Tuesday launched a joint appeal for over US $3.6 m to help some 20,000 people in northern Guinea Bissau made vulnerable by fighting between Guinea Bissau military and rebels from neighbouring Senegal. Clashes between Guinea Bissau soldiers and a faction of the Senegalese secessionist group, the Movement for the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) from the region that borders Guinea Bissau to the north, raged in northern Guinea Bissau’s between 15 March and the end of April.

2004

MRU WOMEN ON PEACE, UNITY OVERTURES
July 15, 2004 - (The Analyst) The 14 years civil conflict did not only sour the human relationship among Liberians but did similar things in neighboring countries of the Mano River Union (MRU).

STOP THE KILLINGS, THE RAPES AND THE ARBITRARY ARRESTS
July 5, 2004 – (Amnesty International) The Government of Equatorial Guinea must immediately bring an end to extrajudicial executions, torture and rape by security personnel, Amnesty International called today.

PROGRAM BRINGS HOPE TO VULNERABLE ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN GUINEA
June 9, 2004 – (International Rescue Committee) The IRC has launched a program in eastern Guinea to provide vocational and literacy training to vulnerable adolescent girls in refugee camps and their host communities. Most of the girls participating in the program have previously worked in the sex industry.

WOMAN CHOSEN AS NEW HEAD OF SUPREME COURT
January 27, 2004 – (IRIN) Maria do Ceu Silva Monteiro, a 38-year-old woman judge, has been appointed president of the supreme court of Guinea-Bissau, filling a post that had been vacant for more than two years.

2003

SUPPORT FOR GIRLS' EDUCATION IN GUINEA-BISSAU
February 26, 2003 – (IRIN) UNICEF has agreed to provide Guinea-Bissau with assistance worth US $23 million under a new five-year support and cooperation programme that will continue until 2007. The programme will cover child protection, nutritional health, primary education and functional literacy, and a social communication policy, the programme's coordinator, Karim Alkadiri, told IRIN… Its targets include getting more children in school, especially girls, and teaching them about peace.

2002

WOMEN, CHILDREN SUFFERED MOST IN WAR, NGO SAYS
May 2, 2002 – (IRIN) Women and children face increasing brutality in modern conflicts, Save the Children USA, reported on Thursday. In countries at war they had increasingly become casualties of deliberate, systematic violence and were more defenceless against hunger, injury, disease, forced military servitude and sexual exploitation, it added.

ALTERNATIVES TO FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN GUINEA-BISSAU
January 22, 2002 – (afrol News) "Sinim Mira Nassigue" means, "we think about the future," and it also means the hope of avoiding female genital mutilation for an increasing number of young women in Guinea-Bissau. The non-governmental organisation is presenting alternative rites to traditional rural societies.

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