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	Samora Machel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Machel was born in the village of Chilembene, Mozambique, to a poor peasant family.
		Machel was attracted to Marxist ideals and began his political activities in a hospital where he protested the fact that fl nurses were paid less than whites doing the same job.
		On October 19, 1986 Machel was on his way back from an international meeting in Lusaka in the presidential Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft when the plane crashed into the hillside in the Lebombo Mountains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samora_Machel (718 words)

	Graça Machel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Graça Machel is recognized for her dedication to educating the people of Mozambique, and for her leadership in organizations devoted to the children of her war-torn country.
		Machel was one of Mozambique's strongest voices in anti-apartheid advocacy), the Rhodesian government established the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) to destabilize Mozambique's economy and to terrorize its citizens.
		Machel was recently appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations as an Expert to Chair the Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/machel-g.htm (500 words)

	A personal note from Graça Machel
		In 1994, Graça Machel's reputation as an educator and children's champion led United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to name her the Expert in charge of producing a ground-breaking report on the impact of armed conflict on childrenI.
		Machel served as Mozambique's first post-independence Minister for Education and within 10 years, school enrolment had doubled to over 80 per cent of school-age children.
		Machel visited countries in the midst of, or emerging from, armed conflict, and met not just with officials but also with children and their families.
	www.unicef.org /graca/graca.htm (1162 words)

	Remarks by Ambassador Francesco Fulci of Italy
		After having been very active in the movement to increase literacy and schooling for the children of Mozambique ever since the period of the struggle for independence in 1975, she was asked to join the first Mozambique government as minister for education and culture, a position she held until 1989.
		Machel's report is, and I quote, "transform moral outrage into concrete action." I for one am proud to be among those enlisted into service of this noble cause.
		The honourable Machel's report is a milestone in international efforts to stem and reverse the tide of victimizing children in conflicts and in war.
	www.ipsdailyjournal.org /award/1998/fulci.html (792 words)

	Africa Prize Laureate Graça Simbine Machel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Machel for her dedication to educating the people of Mozambique, and for leading an organization devoted to the children of her war-torn country.
		Machel vowed in a letter to Nelson and Winnie Mandela that she would fight to continue her husband's work.
		Machel became president of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique, which has sought to place orphans in village homes, using the values of family and community to begin the healing process.
	www.thp.org /prize/92/machel.htm (318 words)

	UN Foundation: Board of Directors
		Graça Machel was Mozambique's Minister for Education until 1989 and the chairperson of the National Organization of Children of Mozambique, an organization that places orphans in village homes.
		Machel was a delegate to the 1998 UNICEF conference in Zimbabwe, is president of the National Commission of UNESCO, and served on the international steering committee of the 1990 World Conference on Education for All.
		Machel was the recipient of InterAction's humanitarian award for 1997, and received a major award from CARE as a result of her longstanding work on behalf of children.
	www.unfoundation.org /about/board/machel.asp (180 words)

	Children as war victims
		To these statistics, Graca Machel and photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in their powerful and path-breaking documentation of children as the intended and unintended targets of war and armed conflict, put faces and names and the details of place and time, the precise theatres of conflict, and the brutal forms war assumes.
		Graca Machel, a former Minister for Education in Mozambique, was appointed independent expert by the U.N. Secretary-General in September 1994 to undertake a comprehensive study of the impact of armed conflict on children.
		Graca Machel's documentation of children as recruits in armed conflict indicates how shockingly widespread the practice is. Most child recruits into armies are from poor families or from minority or indigenous groups.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1906/19060720.htm (1102 words)

	9647—Peace Is Every Child's Right—11/19/96
		Is where you have adults who deliberately conceive a strategy of kidnapping, training, and sometimes even dragging children to send them in the front, to expose them to killings and of course for themselves to kill.
		Machel took part in Mozambique's war of liberation against Portugal and was Education Minister in the post-independence Mozambique.
		Her husband, President Samora Machel, was killed in a mysterious plane crash in 1986 while Mozambique was embroiled in a civil war fueled by the South African-backed Renamo movement.
	www.commongroundradio.org /shows/96/9647.html (3495 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Machel remembered at special service
		Clad in colourful t-shirts and caps adorned with Machel's picture, young and old came from Mozambique and South Africa to attend the occasion in Mbuzini, outside Nelspruit, where their hero died in October 1986.
		Machel was killed with 33 other people when their plane crashed in the Lebombo mountains.
		Born in 1933, Machel joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) in 1962 and led its guerrilla forces before becoming the organisation's president in 1969.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/831043.htm (502 words)

	RYERSON UNIVERSITY: News: Citation for Nelson Mandela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Together with his wife, Graca Machel, he is poised to have a similarly powerful impact on the lives of all of Africa's children.
		Graça Machel has championed children's rights since she was Secretary of State of Education and Culture in her native Mozambique, and as Chairperson of the National Organisation of Children of Mozambique.
		Machel to the podium for the conferring of the degree.
	www.ryerson.ca /news/2001/mandelacit.html (792 words)

	Humanitarian Practice Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Machel’s final Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children documents the two million children killed in armed conflicts in the past 10 years, the 6 million children that have been seriously injured or permanently disabled, and the situation of more than 250,000 child soldiers around the world.
		After the Machel report was launched in November 1996, 129 Member States at the General Assembly co-sponsored a child rights resolution that was adopted by consensus and acclamation.
		Consequently, the Machel report recommends a three-pronged programme covering (1) humanitarian mine clearance, including the creation of safe learning, living and play areas certified as 99.9 per cent free of mines; (2) mine awareness aimed at children and women, and (3) child-centered rehabilitation.
	www.odihpn.org /report.asp?ID=1123 (1120 words)

	[18 Oct 1995] REF/1123 : GRACA MACHEL NAMED 1995 NANSEN MEDAL WINNER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Machel, an activist and humanitarian since her student days in Portugal, was involved in Mozambique's liberation movement and, at the age of 29, was appointed State Secretary for Education in the post-independence Government.
		Machel has worked tirelessly for the development of Mozambique, overseeing efforts to provide universal education for all children and promoting peace and reconciliation in her war-torn homeland.
		Machel is currently chairperson of an unprecedented United Nations study on the impact of armed conflict on children.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1995/19951018.ref1123.html (336 words)

	Graça Machel and Mandela
		Machel is convinced the crash was no accident and has dedicated her life to tracking down her husband's killers.
		Machel is a little disillusioned with politics, believing the Mozambican Parliament has not accorded her husband his proper place in history.
		When she married Samora Machel on September 7 1975, she was already minister of education and culture in the first post-independence Mozambican government, and the only woman in the cabinet.
	www.niza.nl /uk/press/mandela/graca.html (2970 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: South Africa Report
		Mandela and Machel, who is 52, took their vows on Mandela's 80th birthday in a private, multidenominational ceremony at his presidential home in the affluent Johannesburg suburb of Houghton.
		Machel is the widow of Mozambican president Samora Machel.
		Because she is Mozambican, Graca Machel has not been universally accepted here as a suitable presidential companion.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/s_africa/stories/wed071998.htm (699 words)

	Star - These kids need their love back, Graça Machel says of orphans
		Graça Machel, speaking at the release of the report, explained that these families were already overstressed and overwhelmed.
		The report found that orphans live in increasing poverty after their parents die, are malnourished, drop out of school, are increasingly used as child labour and are psychologically harmed by the trauma of watching their parents die.
		Machel said the problem was no longer one with which communities could be expected to cope.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=294602 (554 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		Graca Machel, child ambassador and former South African first lady, yesterday called on the international community to fight for the rights of children as she and her husband, former president Nelson Mandela, had done.
		Machel told the opening of the 13th International Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Durban that an international movement was needed to speak with one voice against child abuse.
		Machel said crushing poverty, gender discrimination, diseases such as Aids, and the consequences of armed conflicts could be prevented by the mobilisation of collective will.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,4017,00.html (441 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Graca Machel: Children's champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		She believes that Mr Machel was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy involving agents from Mozambique, South Africa and Malawi.
		Graca Machel produced a report in 1996 on the impact of armed conflict on children.
		It is understood Graca Machel, 55, had resisted becoming Mr Mandela's third wife because she felt it would have been wrong to marry him whilst he was still head of state in South Africa.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1513267.stm (586 words)

	Jet: Nelson Mandela And Graca Machel Wed In South Africa - South Africa's President marries Graca Machel - Brief Article
		Machel, the 52-year-old widow of Mozambican President Samora Machel, during a private ceremony at Mandela's house in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Houghton.
		Machel's first husband, Mozambique President Samora Machel, was killed in 1986 in a suspicious plane crash.
		Machel is a highly popular and influential figure in Mozambique and headed the first United Nations study on the impact of war on children.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_10_94/ai_54367681 (797 words)

	kaisernetwork.org: XIV International AIDS Conference: Post-Plenary News Conference on Thursday, July 11, 2002
		Graca Machel is going to leave in 10 minutes or 15 minutes from now, I propose to start with her.
		GRACA MACHEL: Well, I don’t think really I have much to say, but this morning, my contribution was basically trying to focus on key, really future briefings.
		GRACA MACHEL: I think we are at a time where those who are, how do you say this in English, those -— the believers have to turn and question actually our spiritual leaders.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /aids2002/transcript/transcript_nc_webcast_11_a.html (6180 words)

	gafrica
		Machel and 33 other passengers died when their plane crashed in the Lebombo mountains on October 19, 1986.
		Born in 1933, Machel joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) in 1962 and led its guerilla forces before becoming the organisation's president in 1969.
		Clad in colourful T-shirts and caps adorned with Machel's picture, young and old came from Mozambique and South Africa to attend the occasion.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/10/20/southafrica/GAFRICA.HTM (474 words)

	Time for Kids \| Magazines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Graça Machel (Gra-sah Ma-shel), the widow of Mozambique's first President, Samora Machel, presented the report to the U.N. She served as Mozambique's Education Minister, and has spent years working on behalf of children.
		Machel points out that "no child who is protected and a part of a family would volunteer to be in the army.
		Machel hopes that by the year 2000 the world's governments will have heard her message.
	www.parenting.com /TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,93813,00.html (709 words)

	SOS Children's Villages: Graca Machel visits SOS Children's Village in Tapiola/Finland
		Ms Machel was handed a bouquet of flowers upon arriving at the SOS Children's Village in Tapiola, where she held a speech, watched the children playing and visited one of the family houses to chat with an SOS Mother.
		Graca Machel was invited to Finland by the Finnish minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Ms Paula Lehtomäki.
		Graca Machel's husband Nelson Mandela is one of the most prominent and important friends of the SOS Children's Village work in Africa.
	www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/graca_machel_visits_sos_children_s_village_in_tapiola_finland.html (692 words)

	Graca Machel Stresses Pride At CIVITAS Opener In South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Machel, who is president of the Foundation of Community Development in Mozambique, said Africans can learn things from others, "but, we also have a lot to offer the world; however, most of the time we don't realize it."
		A former minister of education in Mozambique for 11 years, Machel is a noted authority on the problems of children in the developing world.
		Machel stressed that a proper feeling for democracy can only be imparted in the young if they have a clear understanding of themselves as Africans first.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/civic/archive/111.html (714 words)

	Profile of Graca Machel
		Graca Machel was born in 1946 in rural Mozambique.
		President Machel was killed in a plane crash in 1986; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa is now inquiring into the plane crash, in which many believe the South African apartheid government to have been involved.
		The couple commute between South Africa and Mozambique, and Graca continues her work with multiple organizations in Mozambique and at the U.N. Graca Machel has been very active internationally and is world-renowned for her commitment to children's and women's rights, education, and development.
	people.brandeis.edu /~dwilliam/profiles/machel.htm (1065 words)

	Graca Machel hails WV's Cycle Relay
		Graca Machel, one of the most outspoken international personalities on child rights and development related issues hailed this week World Vision's Aids Cycle Relay in Southern Africa as an initiative that "could grow into a huge social movement".
		Machel was speaking to a delegation led by World Vision National Director in Mozambique Martha Newsome shortly before the launch of the second ever Aids Cycle Relay.
		Graca Machel also pledged herself and that of her Foundation for Community Development to the AIDS Cycle Relay and to achieve the crucial objectives established by World Vision side by side with Governments and other partners.
	www.worldvision.org /worldvision/comms.nsf/stable/graca_machel (477 words)

	Star - The woman he loves ...
		So it seemed natural that Graça Machel and Nelson Mandela, who had so much in common, should fall in love, marry and spend the rest of their lives together.
		But the widow of former Mozambican president Samora Machel admits that she first rebuffed the advances of Mandela and had no plans to remarry.
		In 1998, the year of her marriage to Mandela, Machel said in an interview with the London Sunday Times that when she first met her future husband she had no plans of marrying him.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=189128 (1571 words)

	Operation Desert Rescue - 9.6 million children in danger: Graça Machel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Graça Machel's The Impact of War on Children shows that the impact of armed conflict on children is devastating and total, wounding their bodies and destroying their spirit.
		Machel is an internationally known advocate for children.
		She was the first post-independence Minister of Education in Mozambique and is the widow of President Samora Machel.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /patandvin/machel.htm (264 words)

	Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel Among Nominees For World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Africa is well represented among this year’s nominees for the ”World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the child.” Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel have been nominated, along with a group of village women in Kenya known as “The Mothers of St. Rita.”
		Graca Machel, former Mozambican first lady and now wife of Mr.
		Mandela, was nominated because of a number of projects on behalf of children, especially her efforts to see that girls have the right to go to school.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/aw/2005-02-02-voa40.html (417 words)

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