This is the first call for applicants for Adilisha distance learning courses for human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Fahamu, in association with the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, will be offering courses specifically designed to meet the needs of human rights and advocacy organisations in southern Africa. Developed together with international and regional experts, seven courses will be run in the course of the next 12 months.

Between August 16 and September 4, an expansive film and audio-visual campaign, The Jozi Summit Film Festival 2002, will occur simultaneously with the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Gauteng. This is the first time ever, that key industry stakeholders, join forces in a local initiative of this nature. The significance of this collaboration is unprecedented.

A Nigerian NGO leading the fight against women trafficking and child labour, said 242 Nigerian children were repatriated from Gabon between January 2000 and June 2001, the local press reported last Thursday.

President Levy Mwanawasa's decision to scrap cost sharing in Zambian schools and re-introduce free education has run into controversy over whether the government can afford adequate levels of funding to the country's neglected schools.