Carnegie Carnegie Council Fellowship - January 15 Deadline Fast Approaching!

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Jan 10, 2002

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs will sponsor up to eight non-residential Fellows for the program year June 2002 - June 2003. Among the topics and areas eligible are: Human Rights; Environment; Conflict; Justice and the World Economy; and History and the Politics of Reconciliation.

MANAGING NGO RESOURCE CENTRES

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Jan 10, 2002

The Certificate in Managing NGO Resource Centres will provide participants with the opportunity to gain or improve skills in managing information, as well as to analyse the dynamics of indigenous knowledge, appropriate media, information sharing and networking. During the program participants will develop an action plan for their resource centre's contribution to the community-based development, information and education strategies of their organization.

British Red Cross Launches Disaster Relief Fund

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Jan 10, 2002

The British Red Cross has launched a new fund that will raise money for victims of disasters year round and allow the relief agency to respond to disasters worldwide with increased speed and efficiency.

Foundation Centre releases new Grants Index on CDROM

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Jan 10, 2002

Descriptions of approximately 100,000 grants from over 1,000 of the largest independent, corporate, and community foundations provide an excellent indication of their future funding priorities.

NIGERIA: Dozens reported dead in clashes between farmers, herders

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Jan 10, 2002

Dozens of people died and hundreds were displaced in clashes that broke out a week ago between local farming communities and nomadic Fulani herders in Mambilla plateau, northeastern Nigeria, police and local officials said.

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Child sexploitation is 'a form of terrorism'

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Jan 10, 2002

Mention the word terrorism and, no matter what the context, people will sit up and take notice. In the Japanese city Yokohama Carol Bellamy, the executive head of Unicef, declared that employing children as sex workers (a term that seems to have displaced prostitution for the world's oldest profession) is "nothing less than a form of terrorism."

Knowledge gap -

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Jan 10, 2002

Awareness, acceptance and use of condoms are increasing in Uganda thanks to an open government policy, widespread public awareness campaigns and aggressive social marketing. But it is still difficult for young people to learn about condoms. How can HIV prevention programmes overcome these barriers?

Kenyan Researchers Propose Model for Integrated Antiretroviral Therapy Approach

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Jan 10, 2002

There is currently "no agreement on program infrastructure, a standardized [HIV treatment] regimen, drug procurement and distribution and no agreed-upon monitoring levels" in Kenya, making it difficult for a "common strategy and coordinated approach" against HIV/AIDS to be mounted, Miriam Taegtmeyer of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Kenneth Chebet, director of the AIDS Control Program in Kenya, write in the "Personal View" column of the January issue of the Lancet Infectious Di...read more

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AFRICA: World Racism Conference declaration

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Jan 10, 2002

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson announced on Thursday the publication of the Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference against Racism, which clears the way for the implementation of measures adopted in Durban, South Africa, last autumn.

Cameroon: Birfdlife International seeks Chief Technical Officer

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Jan 10, 2002

The GASHAKA GUMTI TCHABAL MBABO PROJECT, funded by GEF-UNDP aims, through a partnership of local communities, government agencies and NGOs to address the root causes of biodiversity loss in the ecosystems of Gashaka Gumti (Nigeria) and Tchabal Mbabo (Cameroon).

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