SOUTH AFRICA: MRC FELLOWSHIPS

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Oct 11, 2001

The South African Medical Research Council and the South African Aids Vaccine Initiative invite applications for one-year travelling research fellowships in health research.

South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: CITIZEN BASE AWARD

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Oct 11, 2001

The Citizen Base Initiative, a creative resourcing programme, has created the Citizen Base Award - an international competition which provides seed capital to NGOs for innovation in local resource mobilisation. The award aims to support local resource mobilisation as an alternative to international fundraising. This is an international award that has already been hosted in Brazil, Thailand, Bangladesh and India. It is currently running in Argentina. CBI invites South African NGOs to submit a ...read more

South Africa

The Regional AIDS Training Network

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Oct 11, 2001

The Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN) is a Network of training institutions in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region. The mission of RATN as an advocate for training needs, is to establish and maintain linkages with training institutions in the region delivering courses in the field of STDs and HIV/AIDS. RATN is committed to keeping on the cutting edge of training needs in HIV/AIDS, in this new millennium.

VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

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Oct 11, 2001

Violence against children is a bigger problem than governments acknowledge, and in fact is often carried out by officials of the state. The Human Rights Watch report "Easy Targets: Violence Against Children Worldwide" documents beatings, torture, forced labour, sexual assault and murder by police or other law enforcement officials, employers, and teachers. The report was released in Geneva on September 28, a day which the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child devoted to violence against c...read more

Childhood Abuse Leads to Sexual Risk Later On

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Oct 11, 2001

Women exposed during childhood to physical, sexual or emotional abuse or to household dysfunction have an increased likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior later in life, according to "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Sexual Risk Behaviors in Women: A Retrospective Cohort Study". The study, by Susan D. Hillis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention et al., appears in the September/October 2001 issue of The Alan Guttmacher Institute's bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal Family ...read more

World Teachers Day

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Oct 11, 2001

"Qualified Teachers for Quality Education" is the theme for World Teachers' Day, to be observed globally on October 5. The slogan encompasses the dual
themes of teachers as indispensable to providing quality education, and
teachers as fundamental in helping governments to meet their commitments
agreed at recent world education conferences.

Kenya: Primary education to be free and compulsory

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Oct 11, 2001

The Kenyan government plans to make primary education free and compulsory from the year 2003, according to the Kenyan education minister.

Kenya

Ghana: Minister Cautions On Internet Use

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Oct 11, 2001

The Minister of Education, Prof. Christopher Ameyaw-Ekumfi, last weekend cautioned users of Information Technology (IT) to be circumspect on its use, the absence of which he said can have negative effects on the country.

Ghana

Tools for the TEKS Update: 9-27-2001

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Oct 04, 2001

Vacancy: Research Specialist - Saving New Born Lives Initiative

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Oct 04, 2001

Save the Children, an international relief and development agency,
seeks a Senior Research Specialist to oversee global research activi-
ties for The Saving Newborn Lives Initiative (SNL).

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