Making RHGateway into a Collaborative Web Portal

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Jun 04, 2001

USAID has provided support to JHU/PIP on behalf of the Population and Health Materials Working Group to expand RHGateway into a true multi function portal site for international reproductive health. The intended audiences include developing-country researchers and managers, research and academic organizations, health communicators, USAID CAs’ field offices, donor organizations, and RH Gateway participating organizations themselves.

Oxfam Education Report

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Jun 04, 2001

Published earlier this year, this report from Oxfam "sets out the scale of the worldwide education crisis, identifies the causes, and sets out an agenda for reform." Divided into seven sections that examine data concerning education worldwide, the report discusses the critical connection between education and poverty globally, the progress made in achieving the goals set out at the 1990 UN conference -- Education for All, and the worldwide inequalities in education. The report also examines e...read more

International Migrant’s Day (18/12/01)

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Jun 04, 2001

NOVIB and December 18 invite all migrant organizations and others involved with migrant issues to participate at a first round table on the preparation of this year’s International Migrant’s Day in The Netherlands. Interested groups should contact Leila Rispens-Noel of NOVIB before June 10 at [email protected] (Tel.: 070-3421869, Fax: 070-3614461). Note that the first meeting will be held before July 10. Time and place are to be confi...read more

Shell under pressure to publish independent Nigeria report

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Jun 04, 2001

Shell has refused to publish the independent report it commissioned on its multimillion-pound community development programme in Nigeria, despite denying that the document is secret. Pressure on the oil giant was increased yesterday when Glenys Kinnock, the MEP and patron of the Ogoni Foundation, a human rights group, wrote to Shell demanding that it publish the independent report.

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Symposium on Distance Learning

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Jun 04, 2001

The Saturday after the 17th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning there will be a symposium on Strategies for International Humanitarian Organizations.

Promoting Rational Drug Use

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Jun 04, 2001

FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR CANDIDATES APPLYING FROM AFRICAN COUNTRIES. APPLICATION SHOULD BE SUBMITTED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Application form can be requested by e-mail or can be downloaded from:

Nigeria: Federal Government Stops Salary of Striking Lecturers

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Jun 04, 2001

The Federal Government might have ordered stoppage of salary of the striking university lecturers who declared their trade dispute on April 2, 2001. Making this disclosure yesterday in Lagos was a member of ASUU negotiating team, Dr. Kayode Bamgbose of University of Agriculture, Abeokuta who briefed the zonal congress of the union on the development.

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cosatu: celebrate international childrens day

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Jun 04, 2001

In keeping up with the spirit and traditions of International Children’s Day, COSATU will tomorrow be celebrating with the children countrywide, and most importantly, engaging them in the crucial agendas in the general workplace activities. The federation’ eight regions countrywide together with its affiliated unions have organized picketing and various brainstorming, educational programmes set for the children of this country.

Uganda: Sebutinde Police Report Finally Out

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Jun 04, 2001

The ministry of Internal Affairs finally released the voluminous report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into corruption in the police force yesterday, more than one year after it received it from the Commission. Key among the many recommendations of the Commission, which was chaired by Lady Justice Julie Sebutinde, is that the Scotland Yard be brought in to investigate the three interdicted former senior officers in the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

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Hope for the orphans

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Jun 04, 2001

Abandoned children in Morocco get a new chance at life through an education programme that is the envy of all, writes Pierre Wolf.

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