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OTTAWA - Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) welcomes the launch of the 2001-2010 Decade for African Traditional Medicine by the Summit of the Organization of African Unity. To the majority of rural populations in developing countries, medicinal plants are a precious resource. To ensure conscientious use of these crucial resources, IDRC is working with a variety of partners in the creation of an African network on the diversity of medicinal plants.
The 7th Reproductive Health Priorities Conference will be held at the Champagne Sports Resort, Drakensberg, South Africa. The Reproductive Health Priorities Conferences have been a great success in presenting research in this field from the Southern African region, in promoting new research in reproductive health and in enabling a close interaction between researchers and service providers from around South Africa and the neighbouring countries.
Within the framework of the UNESCO Co-sponsored Fellowships Scheme, a joint programme has been launched with L'OREAL with a view to promoting the contribution of young women from all over the world in research development taking place in life sciences. L'OREAL has renewed its offer to 10 fellowships for deserving young women originating from UNESCO's Member States, who, through their enthusiasm and innovative research are making valuable contribution to further the development of life sciences.
The Women's World Congress is seeking papers, projects, posters and exhibitions about the status of women and gender equity over the past few decades of its 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress Conference "Gender Worlds: Gains Challenges", at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, from July 16-21, 2002.
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The Nigerian government has drafted a plan for a national health insurance program that would eventually provide coverage for "all Nigerians," but certain individuals with "[h]igh-cost illnesses" such as HIV/AIDS would not be eligible to join, the Lancet reports.
The 10th session of the "Journées Théâtrales de Carthage" will take place from the 18th to the 27th October 2001. With a focus on contemporary creation, this new session whose theme is Mythologies will be an opportunity to discover international mainstream theatre works and modern authors representing new trends in melting arts and cultures. Through its different performances and activities, this new session aims to underline the importance of theatre as a witness for the times.
L'IPAO oeuvre, dans le domaine de la communication et de l'information, à la construction d'une culture de la démocratie, de la citoyenneté et de la paix.
In an embarrassing blow to the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, four of its defence investigators have been found to be suspects in the 1994 genocide.
Middle Belt indigenes, under the aegis of "Joint Action Commit-tee on the Middle-Belt" (JACOMB) has petitioned the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Commission probing human rights violations in the country over alleged human rights infractions of their people claiming N 20 trillion as compensation.
The Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat) is a Cape Town based, independent funding and development organisation. Our aim is to empower the rural poor, to strengthen civil society and promote social change. We do this by supporting local agencies working for development in rural communities. We work in partnership with those whom we fund by offering support in organisational development and capacity building. Contact Miriam du Toit at Scat - telephone (021) 418 2575 or
SNV is a Netherlands International Development Organization that mobilizes expertise in the marginal areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe and makes this expertise available in flexible ways. The expertise through their advisory services develop and share knowledge and expertise with local organizations with the goal of making them better equipped for their work in structural alleviation of poverty among women and men.
All over the world, in groundbreaking ways and often at great personal risk, grassroots activists with passion, commitment, creativity and leadership are taking a stand for human rights and fighting for social justice in their communities. Forefront is an international network of human rights activists from 30 different countries who have been recognized by the Reebok Human Rights Award. Forefront seeks a Program Associate to join a small team and contribute to all aspects of the organization's development. The position is comprised of 30% of coordinating the organization's administrative tasks and 50% organizing a new initiative, the Human Rights Web Resource Center, and 20% assisting with other program work as necessary.
Scholarships fund one editor from a developing country to come to the UK to attend the annual course for editors of peer reviewed medical journals. The course is run by Tim Albert Training. This year it will be held in Tunbridge Wells, England, on September 27-29.
The Southern African training (SAT Programme) is seeking to recruit a professional officer for the remainder of its current funding phase until December 31, 2001) with a view of a five year appointment for the next phase from January 2002 to December 2006. The position is based in Harare, Zimbabwe and covers the countries of Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. We are looking for an African national and will give priority consideration to female applicants.
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SANGONeT is pleased to announce that it is once again offering an opportunity for a motivated young South African to develop ICT skills and gain valuable work experience during a twelve-month internship programme.
The Non Profit Partnership (NPP) is an NPO committed to supporting democratic transformation by strengthening the financial sustainability of the non-profit sector in South Africa. The NPP provides a range of creative services to NPO’s. These include providing information and advice, establishing income-generating services and lobbying for relevant legislative and financial policy changes.
The National Land Committee is a network of land reform NGO's providing assistance and support to rural communities across South Africa who are seeking access to land. The national office of the NLC, which is based in Johannesburg, is seeking a person to coordinate its National Gender Programme.
Director has overall leadership responsibility for interpreting the vision and mission of a cutting edge NPO engaged in the provision of a range of services to Street Children at risk in Greater Cape Town.
The International Development Research Centre is holding a competition for Internship Awards this Fall. These awards provide exposure to research for international development through a program of training in research management and grant administration under the guidance of IDRC program staff. Internships are tenable for a minimum of 4 months and a maximum of 12 months at IDRC headquarters in Ottawa or in a Regional Office. Candidates can be Canadians (or permanent residents) or citizens of developing countries, and should have had some training at the Master's level. Deadline for receipt of applications is September 14, 2001. Awards will commence in January 2002.
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Refugees in Guinea are vulnerable to serious human rights abuse at the hands of Guinean authorities and civilian vigilantes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Guinean security personnel and civilians regularly harass refugees near their camps or as they move through the country to safer areas.
Villagers have hacked to death about 200 suspected witches in rebel-held northeastern Congo since June 15, blaming them for diseases that have gone untreated since Congo's war broke out three years ago, a senior Ugandan army official said Thursday.
Mzee is 42, headstrong and notorious for crashing through the electrified fence that surrounds a sprawling ranch in north central Kenya. On Thursday, the 4.2-ton bull elephant stumbled out of a truck, shook off his stupor and flapped his ears, ambling free in his new, fenceless home following the most intensive elephant relocation effort to date in eastern Africa.
With rare exceptions -- including Botswana President Festus Mogae and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni -- few African leaders have done much to fight the pandemic that infects more than 25 million people on the continent. Kaunda, 77, hopes he can fill the leadership vacuum.
The former campaign manager of Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has been murdered in front of his horrified wife in a pre-dawn attack, his lawyers and family say. Paul Tembo, 41, was due to give evidence on Friday at a tribunal investigating corruption and abuse of office by three cabinet ministers.
Zimbabwe has admitted for the first time that it is running out of food and needs foreign aid to help it to buy grain from abroad. Finance Minister Simba Makoni said there was no provision in the budget for such purchases. He said he hoped that, where human life was concerned, the government and the donor community could find common cause.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, are meeting on Friday morning at Katuna border post - a stretch of no-man's land which lies between their two countries. The meeting is the first of its kind in close to a year and the presidents will be trying to find ways to repair their damaged relationship.
The Algerian authorities have prevented thousands of Berber-speaking protesters from holding a planned protest march through the capital Algiers. Soldiers wielding machine guns and aided by police dogs set up road-blocks around the capital Algiers and turned back buses coming from the mainly-Berber eastern region of Kabylia to prevent a planned march by on Thursday.
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Highlights of coverage and analysis from the Social Justice Advocacy Digest, South Africa for the last few months.
A CBI team has seized documents from the Indian mission in Tanzania to probe a visa racket involving an Indian revenue service officer, who has been suspended for alleged cheating and forging of documents.
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has "demanded" that people who "knowingly" transmit HIV to others receive the death penalty, Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Moi's proposal that those who knowingly infect others with the virus be hanged drew "mixed reactions" from women's groups and church leaders.
Content-rich and engaging, this two-day course offers effective tools and strategies for successful organisational change. The course explores the essential qualities and mechanisms of a well-governed, accountable and sustainable organisation. NPO leaders and managers will be taken through a clear, in-depth assessment of their organisation's strengths and weaknesses. You will learn the use of powerful and proven techniques to enhance what you do well and overcome key obstacles to NPO sustainability and delivery in today's challenging environment. August 23 & 25; Venue: Disa Conference Centre, Gardens, Cape Town; Presenters: Andrew Shackleton,Marcus Coetzee, Willem du Toit; Cost: R675.
The government played down the effects of a national strike that paralyzed the economy for a second day Wednesday as union leaders proclaimed success, insisting 90 percent of workers stayed away from their jobs. The strike was organized by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions to protest President Robert Mugabe's economic policies and a 70 percent gasoline price increase that was imposed by the government on June 12.
About a year ago both the World Bank and the European Investment Bank approved a loan for the controversial Chad- Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project. A brand new report that outlines all commitments made and not lived up to by the banks, the governments and the oil companies. The project has been selected as one of FoEI's (Friends of the Earth International) 'showcases' to illustrate the call for a phase out of public financing for oil, mining and gas projects.
In mid-April, worldwide protests forced an international cartel of pharmaceutical giants to withdraw a lawsuit against the South African government. Like the proponents of apartheid before them, these companies acted to maintain the rules of a system that denies the value of black lives in favor of minority privilege. The result in Africa has been murder by patent.
The move to prosecute Milosevic several years after his indictment should send a chilling message to all dictators who have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Fear is without doubt gripping Zimbabwe’s State House as Robert Mugabe, our very own Balkan tyrant, begins to see that the arm of the law is long enough to reach even those in the highest positions of power.
The demand for 100% cancellation of Third World debt is being advanced by progressive civil society groups like Jubilee South and the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd). Zimbabwe is officially considered only “moderately” indebted by the World Bank. Yet the burden of repayment is so brutal that government finally said no to foreign debt repayment around a year ago, and drove the interest rate down to at least 45% below inflation earlier this year so as to lower domestic debt repayment.
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s government has arbitrarily increased by 2000 the number of white-owned commercial farms targeted for confiscation under the fast-track land resettlement programme, further jeopardising the country’s food security, it was established this week.
The following is a critique of "The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction" by John M. Forbes, Executive Director of World Federalist Association of New England. "The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction" is written by Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, in Foreign Affairs, July/August 2001 issue.
A one-stop compilation of essential facts and figures on the environment, poverty and health.
This Paper focuses on three of the major issues facing our society today, ones which are likely to be key battlegrounds in the struggle to shape the coming era: multiculturalism and diversity, citizenship and participation, and the Knowledge / Information Society. It reveals fundamental connections between the demands we are grappling with in those fields. It then goes on to suggest an approach to learning, named here for the first time as Open Source Learning, which aims to equip people to engage positively with all three of these major challenges on a fundamental level.
OH, THE shame. As usual, African countries have scored dismally in Transparency International's latest global corruption index. But hold on a minute. The rankings bring to mind the (true) story of an African businessman who swallows his cellphone microchip in desperation as police close in to arrest him for corruption involving top government officials. Such a scene is not difficult to imagine in corruption-riddled Africa, is it? Except that this incident took place not in Africa, but in France.
Three months after giving birth Mpho Mayoba, a young anti-Aids campaigner from Welkom, was buried this weekend, after dying from an Aids related illness. Mayoba was part of the Young People Living With Aids project which encouraged safe sex, although she herself failed to practice this advice. Mayoba's death has now sparked concerns and uncertainty over the mission of the project, which was launched by the Youth Commission in partnership with the office of the President in 1999.
President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, where two million people are infected with the HIV virus, has said he is confident the country should be able to reverse the spread of the disease in the next five years, given the current level of nationwide mobilisation against the epidemic. "We are now at a stage of all-round mobilisation that will result in the total reversal of the trend in the next five years," the UNDP quoted Mkapa as saying at a press conference in New York last week to coincide with the UN General Assembly's special session on HIV/AIDS.
The meeting of COP-6 of the UNFCCC, scheduled to be held in Bonn, Germany during the last two weeks of July of this year, will address a conflict that has pitted the United States against most if not all the countries of the world and threatens to upset the international effort to curb global warming.
A new report by an international panel of finance experts argues that further debt relief must be given to bring debt to sustainable levels, but emphasises importance of maintaining and increasing aid levels.
The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) by five months to 30 November. The decision was based on the UN Secretary-General's report on the situation in the disputed territory. The report includes a draft framework agreement prepared by James Baker III, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to Western Sahara.
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has called on the European Union to pay greater attention to the central African countries. In a speech to members of the European Commission in Brussels on Monday to mark Belgium's presidency of the EU, Verhofstadt said the EU countries must take a leading role in trying to resolve the conflicts in central Africa.
The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, while acknowledging that his country has achieved some success fighting HIV/AIDS, insists it is far from enough. At the forefront of that battle, Wade considers, are the women of Senegal. "Take any given woman in any given neighbourhood," he said. "If she gathers together a group of ten or twenty women and she talks to them - without fanfare, without drums or trumpets - and explains the problems of AIDS so that it sinks in, then we will make progress. And that is possible in Senegal."
The need for physical shelter and for a government decision on the situation of a displaced people's camp have emerged as key issues for over 8,000 newly displaced people in Ed Daein (Al-Duwaym), Southern Darfur, according to local government and humanitarian sources.
The flawed text of a new global treaty which could ensure future food security by conserving and protecting the genetic resources of the world's most important food crops has finally been agreed. The treaty is the International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, or IU. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) immediately criticised the weakened text for enshrining OECD countries' priority to support private profit rather than food security, and for subordinating this environmental treay to the trade rules of the WTO - including its contentious agreement on intellectual property rights (TRIPs).
Health workers will try to vaccinate 16 million children in central Africa this week in an attempt to rid the region of polio. The five day campaign aims to immunise all children under five in Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. By simultaneously targeting the population at risk in one of the last reservoirs of polio, the campaigners hope to cut the viral transmission chain and finally eradicate the crippling disease.
Livestock exports have resumed in earnest in Somalia, after a ban by the Gulf states brought the trade to a halt. The ban was imposed in September 2000 on the Horn of Africa after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Saudi Arabia and Yemen - the first recorded epidemic outside Africa. Coming on the heels of a three-year regional drought, the ban hit pastoralist communities hard, particularly in areas of Ethiopia and northern Somalia.
Chiefdoms in southern and eastern Sierra Leone will soon receive tens of thousands of dollars as their share of proceeds from the sale of diamonds mined in their region, Mineral Resources Minister Mohammed Deen told IRIN on Thursday.
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) was in a quandary after its two-day stayaway on Wednesday, over its next move to force the government to scrap sharp fuel price increases. At the same time, its leadership faced pressure from its members to plan indefinite mass action, including demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe, the 'Financial Gazette' has reported.
The fertility and population growth rates in Uganda are among the highest in the world, according to a new survey by Uganda's Population Secretariat (POPSEC). The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for 2000 indicated that a Ugandan woman would give birth to an average of 6.5 children, the state-owned 'New Vision' newspaper quoted Acting Director of POPSEC, Paddy Nahabwe, as saying. "By comparison, a Kenyan woman will have an average of 4.5 children in her lifetime. This means that our population is growing rapidly and continuing to exert pressure on the environment," he added.
The Prime Minister of Tanzania, Frederick Sumaye, has said that tough pre-conditions were making it difficult for Tanzania to take advantage of debt relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, the 'Guardian' newspaper reported on Tuesday.
WFP on Monday welcomed the arrival in Mombasa port of a 54,000 mt shipment of maize, valued at US $24 million, as part of a substantial donation by the US government towards the agency's post-drought expanded school feeding programme in Kenya. "This food is not only a meal, but a passport to an education, a future, hopes and dreams," said Esther Ouma, a programme analyst for WFP Kenya. "Giving a nutritious meal to a poor student today is key to helping him or her become a literate, self-reliant adult tomorrow," she added.
The President of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar, Amani Abeid Karume, on Monday denied accusations by the human rights watchdog Amnesty International that the administration was holding political prisoners. Amani invited Amnesty to send representatives to Zanzibar to "witness what was happening for themselves," according to Tanzanian radio.
The Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF) on Tuesday claimed to have rescued more than 6,000 children to date from enforced fighting and slavery with the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The army's 4th Division spokesman, Captain Khelil Magara, was quoted by the independent 'Monitor' newspaper as saying that the children had been rescued while fighting against the UPDF, and that a child protection unit had been formed in the 4th division to help those rescued.
Ghana has expressed readiness to send its troops as part of the "international protection force" to monitor peace in Burundi, Ghanaian defence minister, Kufuor Kwame, told journalists in Bujumbura on Wednesday. The country would send the troops "if the situation stabilised," Rwandan radio quoted him as saying.
A week before a meeting of signatories of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement, the Burundian Net Press news agency reported that the group of eight pro-Tutsi parties (G8) supporting the candidacy of Col. Epitace Bayaganakandi as president of the first phase of the transitional period has written to the mediator in the Burundi conflict, Nelson Mandela, drawing his attention to what they believe to be impeding progress in negotiations: stubbornness on the part of President Pierre Buyoya and the Forces pour la defense de la democratie (FDD) and Forces nationales pour la liberation (FNL) rebel groups.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday reiterated that he was tired of the war in the DRC and was pulling out his troops from that country, a report posted on 'The Guardian' website said.
Seminars on community peace building in Bukavu have contributed to the restoration of a "relatively peaceful" situation in certain zones, Save the Children UK (SC UK) said in its July update. Bunyakiri, Walungu and Kaziba were some of the zones in which the positive results were realised. SC UK supported some partner organisations working in Bukavu, ran these seminars which focused on the reintegration and protection of the child soldiers and the prevention of child recruitment.
The first 34 of a total 159 demobilised child soldiers were flown home on Wednesday from Uganda to Bunia in the Ituri district of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to be reunited with their families, UNICEF announced on Thursday. The children have been staying in a World Vision-Uganda transit centre in Kiryandongo, 220 km north of the capital Kampala, under the supervision of UNICEF-Uganda since February this year when the government of Uganda handed them over.
The government of Sudan on Wednesday announced that it had fully accepted all the points of a joint Libyan-Egyptian memorandum, which has not been made public, on their peace initiative for Sudan. At a press conference in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, Foreign Minister Mustafa Uthman Isma'il urged the two countries to take all the necessary measures to implement the initiative, Sudanese television reported.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) on Thursday denied that a high-ranking commander from the Nubah Mountains had defected to the government, as had been claimed.
The Ethiopian government has released 22 opposition Democratic Party (DP) members arrested in April for allegedly instigating students riots, AFP reported on Thursday.
Liberia's Defence Ministry reported renewed fighting in the northern county of Lofa even as relief organisations continued to appeal for assistance for people displaced by the insecurity there. Defence Minister Daniel Chea said on Tuesday that Lofa was under attack by Guinea-based rebels, AFP and humanitarian sources reported.
The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has written to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo expressing its concern over the recent arrest of the editor of a weekly magazine on charges of criminal defamation.
Oil giant Shell suffered another major spillage at the weekend in the eastern division of the Niger Delta, 'The Guardian' reported on Tuesday. The leak, at Ogbodu village in the Ikwerre Council area, spread through the Choba River to the Calabar Creek because of the fast flow of the river, the Lagos-based newspaper said. Dead fish could be seen floating on the surface of the water, it added.
Refugees who fled to southern Gambia to escape fighting in the Casamance region of Senegal have been trying to visit their villages to see if it is safe to return home, UNHCR said on Tuesday. However, some have returned to The Gambia after finding their houses destroyed. Others, UNHCR reported, said Senegalese troops who had taken up positions in their villages warned them to stay out of the area.
The Rival militia began disarming in the diamond-rich eastern town of Koidu on Monday in a 26-day effort which, observers said, will mark a decisive phase in ending Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war if it is sustained.
Five people are reported dead and some 139,000 others have been affected by flooding and waterlogged conditions caused by recent downpours in Ghanaian coastal towns, including the capital Accra, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday. The southern districts of Adoagyir, Nsawam, Zongo, and the Odaw Channel have been the worst affected by the flooding, OCHA said.
Most of the former passengers of a Swedish-registered ship which landed in Nigeria just over a week ago are seeking asylum there, UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said in Geneva on Friday.
Veterans of the African National Congress' (ANC) former military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), intend reactivating dormant gold and coal mines in Mpumalanga province to create jobs and wealth for unemployed liberation struggle soldiers, African Eye News Service reported on Wednesday.
UNITA rebels on Wednesday announced the formation of five new teams designed to end their international isolation and to resolve the country's 26-year civil war, one of Africa's longest-running conflicts, Reuters reported on Wednesday. In a statement sent to Reuters in Johannesburg, UNITA said the co-ordinating commissions - covering political, administrative, judicial and military issues - were formed at the party's recent annual congress.
Amnesty International Holds a Training Seminar
for Human Rights Defenders in Cairo from 7-9 July 2001
Postgraduate Training Fellowships for Women Scientists in Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) at Centers of Excellence in the South
To promote greater understanding about what we mean when we are talking about racism. There is clearly a need to engage constructively with racism in South Africa. Developing a common vision of the nature of the problem may assist in focusing our efforts towards achieving this objective.
Date: Wednesday, 25th July 2001 9.00 for 9.30 - 11h30
Venue: The Attic at the Sunnyside Park Hotel, Princess of Wales Terrace, Parktown.
As spaces are limited, please RSVP before 20/07. For directions or further information, contact Caron Kgomo ([email protected]) or on (011) 403 5650.
To be held 23-24 August 2001, at the Ridgeway Hotel, Johannesburg, in conjunction with the DSSA Bi-Annual Conference.
PRESIDENT Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, speaking on the eve of the birth of a new African Union, said that the continent is poised to make a "political leap forward" as Europe has done. Wade, speaking here ahead of the last-ever summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) on Monday through Wednesday, warned against gradual integration and urged that African development follow a joint strategy instead of each country fending for itself.
Comradeship within government could result in more "irregularities", like the R43bn arms deal being swept under the carpet, PAC MP Patricia de Lille said here on Sunday.
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Learn how documentary films can engage and mobilize communities in this new guide for broadcasters, producers, funders and community organizations.
Nonprofit organizations have been using the Internet for years to organize their constituents and advocate their causes. Use these resources from the Benton Foundation to learn the ABCs of online organizing and help your organization be more effective.
A thorough knowledge of energy and climate change issues and work experience in the NGO sector are essential. Remuneration and incentives negotiable, subject to skills, experience and performance; Closing date: 28 July - Send CV and a letter of motivation via email or Fax (011) 339 3270. For more information e-mail or phone (011) 339 3662.
To manage and run a research programme, write summaries, reports and advocacy campaign materials; prepare publications for printing; manage local and international information dissemination and exchange and an e-mail newsletter; facilitate a research reference group; organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder workshops/dialogues. Closing date: 28 July - Send CV and a letter of motivation via email
or Fax (011) 339 3270 or P O Box 11383, Jhb, 2000.
We are an independent non-governmental organisation, dedicated to the equitable distribution of power and resources in the rural areas of South Africa. A person with a vision for and a commitment to rural development is required to lead the organisation as a key player in this field. Please fax a detailed CV to Rodney Calvert at (021) 882-9983 or e-mail by no later than 20 July 2001.
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council has substantially revised its existing website. This revision is designed to provide: clearer navigation and more contemporary design features; improved content; new features. Please review the site and pass this message on to others. The Council hopes that the improved site will communicate and disseminate information about the Council to members and strategic partners more effectively.
President Bush's newly reinstated "global gag rule" exports a U.S. position on other countries' practice of abortion that reflects neither U.S. law nor U.S. public opinion. In doing so, the policy places women in need of family planning services at risk, according to "Global Gag Rule: Exporting Antiabortion Ideology at the Expense of American Values" by Susan Cohen.
The disparity in the treatment between leaders in rich and poor countries will eventually become too obvious to be sustainable. And, if perpetuated, it will severely undermine the authority of the system of international law, causing it to be seen as merely victors' justice with a few juridical trimmings to give it legitimacy, writes Richard Gwyn.
Save the Earth International is an International Organization involved in the Campaign " A Healthy and Safe Environment is a Human Right", and this should be included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of The United Nations. We have handed over a memorandum on this issues with more than one million signatures from all over the world to the Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Nitin Desai on April 24, 2001 in New York. Add your name to the list!
The recent results of the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International are no good news for anti-corruption campaigners in Zimbabwe.
Over 50 religious, women's rights and human rights groups- from the National Coalition of American Nuns to the Feminist Majority Foundation to BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, Nigeria-have issued "The Call to Accountability Campaign" to raise public awareness about sexual violence against women in the Catholic church and to hold accountable the individuals and institutional leadership involved or complicit in this problem. For more information on the campaign, and further action steps on how you can take a stand for women, visit the Catholics for Free Choice website.
The state owned media took advantage of the ZCTU’s decision to postpone the two-day national strike to make unsubstantiated claims that the stay-away had been delayed due to a lack of consensus within the labour movement. While the private Press did not cover the impending strike extensively, the state media went to great lengths to portray the ZCTU as a discredited labour organization whose threat was aimed at “destroying the economy”. It also provided extensive publicity to the ZANU PF-affiliated ZFTU run by Harare municipality driver Joseph Chinotimba. Surprisingly however, none of the media has investigated the credentials of the ZFTU to find out which unions comprise its membership and how many workers they represent.
The World Bank Group is preparing a Private Sector Development Strategy to be presented to its Executive Directors in December 2001. The task for the Strategy is to set out how developing country governments, through sound policy and institutions, can best tap and promote private initiative to pursue socially useful goals. A paper setting out the major themes to be covered in the Strategy is now available for discussion and comment.