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RSS FeedGlobal: New website tracks IMF leadership race
2011-05-23, Issue 530
The Bretton Woods Project and partners from around the world are launching imfboss.org, a new website dedicated to tracking the leadership selection processes at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). With the IMF's current Managing Director Dominiqu...
Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant
2011-05-03, Issue 527
The Africa Initiative Graduate Research Grant program supports short-term academic placements for students enrolled in a Master’s or PhD program at select African universities. The program offers grants of up to CAD$10,000 each to fifteen students pe...
Useful website on North Africa and Middle East
2011-05-05, Issue 527
The Jadaliyya website is an independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies Institute), a network of writers associated with the Arab Studies Journal (www.ArabStudiesJournal.org). It is motivated by the need to discuss the 'Arab World' or the 'Middle...
Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Programme
2011-04-20, Issue 526
The Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Programme supports individuals to implement their own innovative ideas for social change in the world. Apart from the individual Fellowship grant, it offers an enabling support structure and an existing network ...
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for International Photography
Call for applications for grant program
2011-04-20, Issue 526
The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for International Photography is currently seeking to award one social documentary photographic project produced in the journalistic tradition of Manuel Rivera-Ortiz. One project based on pressing social issues in t...
Global: Six point checklist for justice on gender-based violence
2011-04-21, Issue 526
This document from Amnesty International is a checklist for identifying obstacles to justice for women or girls who are victims and survivors of sexual and other forms of gender-based violence. The checklist is intended to help activists and advocate...
Women PeaceMakers Program
Applications now open
2011-04-21, Issue 526
The Women PeaceMakers Program documents the stories and best practices of international women leaders who are involved in human rights and peacemaking efforts in their home countries. The program offers an opportunity for women leaders who want to do...
Videos on the recolonisation of Africa
2011-04-18, Issue 525
The videos of six panelists who addressed the topic of the re-colonization of Africa at a Left Forum panel in the US are now online on www.youtube.com The speakers include Firoze Manji, Andre Kangni Afanou, Eben Vale...
Blog showing African data in graphics
2011-04-06, Issue 524
Afrographique is a blog that aims to collect as much data as possible with the aim of presenting the information in an exciting and digestible format to all. It has graphics on foreign investment in Africa, Facebook users, African CO2 emissions and m...
Centre of Memory launches social media plan
2011-03-29, Issue 523
The Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation has announced its online debut on social media platforms Twitter and Facebook. The Centre of Memory is now live and tweeting and has a dedicated Facebook page....
LGBTI rights funding
2011-03-30, Issue 523
An LGBTI Rights Initiative from the Open Society Foundations will provide funding to local rights groups and regional networks in the developing world. It will also support global advocacy initiatives that advance LGBTI rights and complement efforts ...
Freedom Fone v2.0 available
2011-04-04, Issue 523
Great news, Freedom Fone v2.0 has arrived. The Freedom Fone platform enables automated, interactive, two-way, audio information to be shared through mobile phone networks. The DIY platform is accessible, user-friendly, low-cost, scalable, global and ...
Global: The Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter
2011-04-04, Issue 523
The Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is a monthly electronic publication that provides news, reflection, and learning on the provision of refugee legal aid. It is aimed primarily to be a resource for legal aid providers in the Global South where l...
Africa: Online open education resources portal
2011-03-23, Issue 522
The African Virtual University (AVU) launched the interactive Open Education Resources portal OER@AVU in January this year. The portal can be accessed at http://oer.avu.org and contains quality resources developed togeth...
United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund
2011-03-24, Issue 522
The 2011 Small Grants Facility (SGF) aims to provide tangible support, through established channels, to victims of trafficking in persons. The 2011 Small Grants Facility will accept project proposals from eligible not-for-profit, non-governmental org...
Kenya: New blog discusses Kenya and the International Court
2011-03-28, Issue 522
Professor James Gathii, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and the Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law at Albany (New York) Law School, has launched a new blog - [url=http://afjil.wordpress.com]http://afjil.wo...
Africa Through a Lens
2011-03-28, Issue 522
A new online collection from the National Archives (UK) of thousands of images from the photographic collection of Foreign and Commonwealth Office is now available. The images span over 100 years of African history. The images are all available via F...
Libya: Libya in videos
2011-03-16, Issue 521
Visit this multimedia page on www.liveleak.com for the latest videos on the situation in Libya....
Legal Defence Fund
Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA)
2011-03-22, Issue 521
The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), with the financial support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, is operating a fund for individuals/groups litigating cases before the African Commission for Human and Peopl...
Call for contributions: second conflict trends issue of 2011
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
2011-03-22, Issue 521
The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) is presently soliciting contributions for the second Conflict Trends Issue of 2011 (CT 2011, Issue 2). This will be a Special Issue on 'Climate Change, Environment and Conflict' ...
Africa: World Social Forum in Dakar, the struggle for another world
2011-03-09, Issue 520
The independent news magazine Kontext TV, supported by Noam Chomsky and others, was at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal in February and has produced a series of broadcasts on the occasion of the Forum's 10th anniversary. The first programme i...
Help Oxfam shape their new website for development and humanitarian professionals
2011-03-09, Issue 520
In 2011 Oxfam will launch a new section of its website aimed at development and humanitarian professionals. The new site aims to share Oxfam's policy, practice and research with development practitioners, researchers, advocacy and campaign organisations, and policy formers worldwide. This site will replace the current Oxfam Publications website http://www.oxfam.org.uk/publications...
Egypt: Documenting the revolution
2011-03-09, Issue 520
http://iamjan25.com is an online video and photographic archive documenting the Egyptian revolution....
Social Conflict in Africa Database web tool for researchers
2011-03-14, Issue 520
The Social Conflict in Africa Database (SCAD) is a resource for conducting research and analysis on various forms of social and political unrest in Africa. It includes over 6,000 social conflict events across Africa from 1990 to 2009, including riots...
Call for Applications
Peace and Security Fellowship for African Women
2011-03-07, Issue 519
The African Leadership Centre (ALC) was established in Kenya in June 2010 as a joint initiative of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi. The ALC is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Peace and Security Fellowship for A...
The Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists
2011-03-07, Issue 519
The Dag Hammarskjöld Journalism Fellowship is open to individuals who: are native of one of the developing countries of Africa, Asia, South America or the Caribbean. Applicants must demonstrate an interest in and commitment to international affairs a...
Africa: Toolkit on women's rights and freedom of information
2011-03-07, Issue 519
'Freedom of Information and Women’s Rights in Africa' is a toolkit guide published by the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) with the support of UNESCO. The book provides guidance for women’s organisations in Africa on how...
New blog on resistance
2011-02-24, Issue 518
The Popular Resistance blog contains writing in Arabic and English. It covers postings on the rapidly escalating situations in the Arab world....
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards 2011
2011-02-24, Issue 518
The Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards 2011 are now open for submissions. The RFPA Awards recognise radio programs that contribute to peace in Africa. The awards particularly celebrate programs that help to reduce group and community tensions, tha...
AL Jazeera Live Blog
2011-02-28, Issue 518
As the uprising in Libya enters its second week, Al Jazeera's live blog is indispensable for keeping up with the fast-moving events in that country....
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