101. Views : Child Rights Information And Documentation Centre : CRIDOC Malawi of cultural traditions and the Worst Forms of Child Labour, malawi is not an A lot of heinous but supposedly bygone cultural traditions are now rife http://www.cridoc.globalmarch.de/views.html

search the world wide web Our Work Press Room Views Partnership ... Sitemap Views Editorial Guest Column Editorial Part I: Child Rights Versus Culture News Analysis By George Kayange Cridoc Project Director 17 October 2003 The IRIN News report of the July 28 edition that famine was responsible for the re-emergence of a custom, which sees families forcing young daughters into relationships with older men in order to pay off debts in a Southern African country, Malawi, is by all standards reprehensible. The article based on the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) report claiming the practice of "kupimbira," which allows a poor family to approach a rich man for a loan of cattle or money in exchange for their daughter regardless of her age, has resurfaced over the past two years. It said the development comes in the wake of the “devastating hunger that has ravaged the areas" in the north of a country that is among the world's poorest nations, with about 65 percent of the population living in abject poverty, or on less than US $1 a day. The article further said the author of the MHRC report, the commission's principal investigations officer, Harry Kambwembwe, conducted an inquiry into the practice following a letter to the commission from a concerned citizen. The letter "singled out a particular case in which a young girl of 13 years was forced by her parents to marry an elderly man in repayment of K4, 000 [about $45] which the parents owed the man," the report said.

102. MOFA: Japan-Malawi Relations Cultural Exchanges. malawi Youth Invitation Programme (2 to 3 persons per year). Cultural Grant (cumulative total fiscal 19752004) http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/africa/malawi/

(Japanese) skip navigations Sitemap Other Languages ... Africa Japan-Malawi Relations August 2005 Basic Data Diplomatic Relations: Established in July, 1964 Number of Residents: Number of Japanese nationals residing in Malawi: 139 (Oct. 2000) Number of Malawi nationals residing in Japan: 30 (Dec. 2000) Trade with Japan (1998): Exports: 5,600 million Yen (tobacco, etc.) Imports: 1,200 million Yen (automobile, telecommunication equipment, etc.) Direct Investment from Japan: Cumulative total: none Japan's Economic Cooperation: List of Grant Aid - Exchange of Notes in Fiscal Year 2005 List of Loan Aid - Exchange of Notes in Fiscal Year 2004 Loans: 34,136 million Yen Grants: 34,670 million Yen Technical cooperation: 18,683 million Yen VIP Visits From Japan to Malawi: Year Name State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Koji Kakizawa From Malawi to Japan: Year Name Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chimango (TICAD) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aleke Banda Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edward Bwanali Minister of Finance, Cassim Chilumpha (TICAD II) Cultural Exchanges Malawi Youth Invitation Programme (2 to 3 persons per year) Cultural Grant (cumulative total fiscal 1975-2004) 66.3 million yen (Cultural Grant Aid)

103. Afromix - Afro-Caribbean Music Africa Unite Addis Ababa and Shashemane from 113 February NANA RITA MARLEY SENDS OUT CLARION CALL TO CULTURAL ACTIVISTS ACROSS AFRICA http://www.afromix.org/html/musique/

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