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This publication showcases a wealth of strategies and materials from around the world to end violence against women. A collaborative project between UNIFEM and the Media Materials Clearinghouse of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the publication highlights media materials and campaigns and provides descriptions of innovative communications methods used for public education. The publication seeks to facilitate information sharing between organizations working to end violence against women, so that strong and effective strategies used in one country can be replicated in other contexts.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "shocked and disturbed" at the news there may have been extensive sexual exploitation of refugee children by relief agency staff. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children UK said the investigation centres on reports of sexual violence and exploitation of children in refugee camps in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
UNIFEM's new publication contributes to understanding how the world’s foremost blueprint for women’s human rights can be put to work to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. The book is intended to be a resource for National AIDS Councils, HIV/AIDS activists, women's human rights activists, UN partners, and others who are doing work in this area and was enthusiastically received by the CEDAW Committee.
At the follow-up to the World Conference on Social Development in June 2000, I welcomed a new dialogue between development and human rights specialists, based on the affirmation of the right to development by all States - large and small, north and south. A few months on, the Millennium Assembly promised to make the right to development a reality for everyone. Now, two years on, we should be in a new and positive position in the third session of this Working Group to build on that consensus and propose positive insights and concrete ideas that if accepted, the Commission could record as a real breakthrough on this vital right. Let us try to do so in order that our efforts over the next two weeks can be harnessed towards a practical outcome.
The half-built genocide museum in Kigali stands bone white against the lush hills of Rwanda's capital, its unfinished windows staring out at the city. The dark interior of the memorial is as hollow as the thousands of human skulls it soon will hold. For now, they are stacked crudely in a corrugated-iron shed with row upon row of bones, neatly separated into piles of arms and legs. Several cavernous concrete tombs contain more remains of tens of thousands of Rwandans killed in the 1994 genocide, when as many as 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu moderates died in this tiny Central African country. The remains are to be sorted and put in glass display cases in the new museum, complete with tiled floors, library, video presentations and cafeteria. There will be a lengthy list of names of the dead, ages and personal details.
Genocide suspect Laurent Semanza has told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that he believes there was no genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Semanza has been testifying in his own defense since 13 February.
The United Nations is determined to work for gender equality and the empowerment of women as vital tools to combat poverty and disease, and to achieve development that is truly sustainable, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said in his message on the International Women's Day, observed on March 8, 2002.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, after receiving an award for the government's HIV/AIDS campaign, announced on Sunday that because Uganda "has no homosexuals," HIV is not spread through homosexual contact there, the Associated Press reports.
On International Women's Day, March 8, women worldwide celebrate their progress and reflect on the challenges ahead. OneWorld's campaign provides coverage on key issues, actions and resources from partner organisations worldwide focused on women's issues.
South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, in a "dramatic turnaround," has broken rank with the central government, withdrawing from its appeal of a December High Court ruling that requires the government to provide the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to all HIV-positive pregnant women to prevent vertical HIV transmission. The province is now publicly siding with the Treatment Action Campaign, the AIDS advocacy group that brought the lawsuit, Health-e News reports.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Sunday said that AIDS drugs should be made available to all South Africans who desire them, but stressed that his position was not in conflict with the government's policy on the drugs, the Associated Press reports.
An independent evaluation of the South African government's test project to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission through the use of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine, endorses nationwide expansion of the project but acknowledges that the government has "valid concerns" about how the drug is administered, the Associated Press reports.
The South African Catholic Bishops' Conference has criticized a Catholics For a Free Choice advertising campaign that takes issue with the church's stand on condoms, saying that condoms are "as likely to promote promiscuity as anything else," the South African Press Association reports. The ads -- which read, "Banning Condoms Kills" and "Catholic People Care, Do Our Bishops?" -- are running in a Cape Town newspaper and will be featured on highway billboards near Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Nigerian health officials have admitted that at the end of December they "quiet[ly]" began dispersing generic AIDS drugs on a limited basis at 25 centers throughout the country, Reuters reports.
Edited by Dr Heinrich Wohlmeyer, Theodor Quendler.
The failure to start a new round of global trade negotiations at Seattle in December 1999 and the hostility of protesters to the trade liberalisation process and growing global economic and social disparities was a wake-up call for the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The ambitious goal of this ground-breaking book is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of liberalised world trade, in particular in the agricultural sector, and to investigate to which extent the current WTO agreements provide the necessary fail-safe devices to react to trade-related negative impacts on sustainability, environmental protection and food security. The background and interrelationship between the WTO, the tenets of sustainable development and the unique features of the agriculture and forestry sectors are explored, and conclusions regarding the deficits of the world trade system and its conflicts with basic societal goals - such as sustainability - are drawn. ISBN 1 874719 45 4 |, 2001.
Angola's ethnic conflicts are products of a double colonization. By the 1950s, there were two deeply frustrated, opposed social groups: the weakened Creole elites and the black Africans of the interior, poor and uneducated. The Mbundu living east of Luanda were a partial exception in that they were accustomed to interaction with the Creoles. The Angolan nationalist movement was thus divided from the start. The FNLA of Holden Roberto and MPLA of Agostinho Neto represented two long-separate sets of interests: the Kongo elites of the North vs. the Luanda Creoles and their Mbundu allies. The FNLA considered the MPLA Creole leadership as "non-African" even if several MPLA leaders were black Africans.
By almost any measure, the war on AIDS is more important than the war on terrorism. Yet Washington’s fixation with the latter--still loosely defined--campaign threatens to crowd out attention to Africa’s priorities. And those priorities, from obtaining support for international peacemaking and peacekeeping, to canceling illegitimate debts and arresting the growing disparities between rich and poor in the world, to defeating the AIDS pandemic, are all equally global priorities.
One day, a giant wave traveling at 124 mph across open water could crash into Sydney harbor, wipe out the beaches of California, or plow across the golf courses of northeast Scotland. Mega-tsunamis have happened with greater frequency than modern science would like to believe, and no coastline in the world is safe, said Canadian geologist-geographer Edward Bryant.
The President of the Zimbabwe Civil Service Employees Association, Ephraim Tapa, and his wife Faith Mukwakwa, have been missing since the 16th of February when the vehicle they were traveling was intercepted by war veterans at Corner Store between Mutoko and Murewha.
Statements from ZANU(PF) members inciting violence.
The Southern African region does not have a rosy history of electoral transition. From its anti-colonial struggles where millions of lives were lost and whose legacy still lives in liberation movements turned into ruling parties, the politics of various countries in the sub-region are still a long way from delivering democracy. The region has had various ways of dealing with political crises as they occur but the Zimbabwean situation is a unique one.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says a deal has been reached at the Commonwealth summit in Australia on the question of Zimbabwe. He said Zimbabwe would not be suspended from the Commonwealth before next weekend's presidential election. But, after the election, the new committee will consider the report of the Commonwealth's election observers and take action against Zimbabwe if they think it is necessary.
Zimbabwe has banned the BBC but John Sweeney spent two weeks there, secretly filming witnesses to torture and mass murder.
Top Zimbabwean generals, government Ministers and close relatives of President Robert Mugabe have made millions of dollars from the illegal smuggling of 'blood diamonds', a US diamond executive has claimed.
UNICEF welcomes the efforts of UNHCR and Save the Children to throw light on the often unreported but widespread problem of child sexual abuse. We are particularly outraged that some humanitarian workers have betrayed the trust of the children they are charged to assist and protect.
A petition is now before the House of Representatives, asking it to set up an independent body to investigate the allegation of bribery against Justice Ade Alabi of the Lagos High Court sitting over the trial of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Col. Ishaya Bamaiyi (rtd).
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe suffered two potentially serious setbacks in the courts when both the Supreme and High courts gave judgments against his government that are likely to boost the opposition vote at next month's presidential election.
HON. Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development has reiterated the determination of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government's position to vigorously combat and weed out corruption in every sector of the Ghanaian society.
Tanzania has confirmed that it will press ahead with a controversial British contract to buy a £28m air control system despite objections from the World Bank that it is too expensive and inappropriate to the country's needs.
Respected Financial Times Journalist Martin Wolf has admitted that economists 'do not know' who is funding the United States colossal $392bn current account deficit. In his assessment, one of the most likely sources of unrecorded funding for this deficit is capital flight from poor countries. In other words, precious resources from poor countries are being used to finance the bloated consumerist habits of the world's richest people.
Uganda is unlikely to realise millennium development targets in the health sector agreed upon the United Nations - sponsored millennium summit two years ago, a paper produced by a World Bank-funded Think Tank has revealed.
Though there has been progress on debt relief for the world's poorest countries, the relief offered so far under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and Enhanced HIPC Initiatives does not go far enough. This Jubilee USA update looks at the state of debt cancellation and what can be expected in the future.
Armed with fresh evidence, South African AIDS activists go to court Friday for the latest round in a long-standing battle to get the government of President Thabo Mbeki to provide all HIV positive pregnant women with a drug that significantly reduces the risk of transmitting the virus to new-born babies.
Four radio stations were attacked and destroyed on February 23 as violence erupted over disputed presidential election results.
Prospects for the resumption of Congo peace talks in Sun City, South Africa took a further nosedive Wednesday, when government and rebel representatives accused one another of violating the ceasefire which is the bedrock of the Lusaka Peace Accords of 1999.
Non-government organisations in francophone Africa are protesting against the revised Bangui Agreement, a new law to be administered by the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI). It is scheduled to come into force on 28 February 2002. This agreement, signed by OAPI’s 15 member states in February 1999, introduces -- for the first time ever -- a regime of intellectual property rights on seeds in francophone Africa. The Bangui Agreement was revised without any consultation with or participation of farmers, even though they will be seriously affected by the new law. The agreement restricts the rights of farmers to save seeds from their harvests and imposes a system of royalty payments on commercial planting material.
Sudan police launched a campaign against child trafficking in early February, a news report said. The move seeks to stop young boys from being trafficked as camel jockeys to countries in the Gulf. Police recently stopped five men who possessed photographs of children, passports and other documents, the report from PANA (Pan-African News Agency) said.
Ghana's creditors have agreed to write off 3.7 billion dollars of the country's external debt servicing on condition the government in Accra follow World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) prescriptions for economic restructuring.
An "explosion with devastating consequences" could engulf Southern Africa if President Robert Mugabe tampers with the results of March 9-10 presidential elections in Zimbabwe, the heads of four major international rights groups have warned this week.
The Botswana government this week left Gana and Gwi Bushmen families in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve to cope without water in the desert. The government cut off water supplies to the remaining Bushmen communities in its latest attempt to force them off their ancestral lands. Many of the 700 Bushmen still living in the reserve at the start of this month have now been forced to leave.
After a decade of disastrous neglect and failed development projects invariably devised by outsiders, Africa has been pushed up the international agenda. The New Plan for Africa's Development is the first to be designed by Africans themselves. It is being hailed as a radical self-help plan but, reports Gemini News Service, some rich countries are backing out of their responsibilities.
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government negotiators at the inter-Congolese dialogue (ICD) in Sun City have demanded the expulsion of Rwandan and Ugandan security chiefs from the holiday resort.
Former rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), including its leader, Foday Sankoh, appeared in court in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, on Monday on various criminal charges including murder, news organisations reported.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ruud Lubbers, on Friday 1 March visited Congolese refugees in a camp in Gihembe in Byumba Prefecture, northern Rwanda, on the last stop of his four-nation tour of the Great Lakes region, the agency reported.
In 2001, Burundi "remained profoundly affected by massive violations of human rights, in particular the right to life, due principally to the continued civil war between the national armed forces and the two principal armed [rebel] factions, the Front national de liberation (FNL) and the Forces pour la defense de la democratie (FDD)", Ligue Iteka, a local human rights organisation, stated in its newly released annual report.
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has expressed its concern that Burundi refugees may effectively be forcibly repatriated, contrary to international law, following repeated calls from Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa on them to go back to safe zones in Burundi.
WFP on Monday confirmed that the UN was in talks with the Sudanese government in an effort to reverse flight restrictions in parts of southern Sudan - many of them in western Upper Nile, which has seen an escalation of fighting in recent weeks
Insecurity over the past year continues to keep some 85,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in protected camps in Katakwi District, eastern Uganda, where aid agencies report widespread but not life-threatening food problems, according to the lastest Uganda report from the Famine Early Warning System Network.
Kenyan children, child activists and organisations serving children are pinning their hopes on the implementation of the new Children’s Act to improve the lot of the nation's youth, according to humanitarian sources.
A group of leading international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on Friday called on the international and humanitarian communities to agree upon "clear and consistent disincentives" for warring parties who commit abuses against civilians and humanitarian aid agencies in Sudan.
A local human rights organisation has warned of severe long-term humanitarian and socioeconomic problems in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa if municipal authorities continue to implement a local cabinet minister's order to demolish kiosks and shanty towns, which so far has left tens of thousands of people homeless and without any livelihood.
Madagascan troops guarding government ministries did nothing to prevent the installation on Monday of an alternate cabinet appointed by self-declared president Marc Ravolomanana.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission met the Malawian government this week to discuss the country's deepening economic problems. Earlier this year, Britain suspended aid to the southern African country citing government over-expenditure and the lack of fiscal discipline.
The Kingdom of Lesotho will go to the polls on 25 May to elect a new national assembly of 120 members. Head of State, King Letsie III, ended months of speculation when he announced the general election date this week.
The RSA's Forum for Environmental and Sustainable Development Awards has published A guide to good practice: organising and sponsoring environment and sustainable development awards. The guide will help to implement effective award schemes and ensure worthwhile investment of time and money in their management.
Today, more than at any other time during Somaliland’s complex recent history, peace is prevalent and refugees are readily returning home. A self-declared independent republic located in Somalia’s northwest region, Somaliland has not received the international recognition it has hoped for and has endured more than a decade of unwanted anonymity.
The African Conservation Foundation (ACF) is a UK Registered Not For Profit foundation, primarily concerned with education in Africa in the areas of environment and conservation. It's aims are to promote education and knowledge about conservation in Africa.
The hijacking of the World Conference on racism has led to the reuniting of the Black world on issues that affect the Black world. Racism and invasions of Blacks lands in Sudan and Mauritania, Indonesia and West Papua is one of the issues that affects the Black world, even though some of the participants in the system of sanctified racism in North East Africa are Black African, who would be reminded of who the are in Germany, the U.S., Libya, Israel, Russia, China, Latin America, India, Europe and parts of the Middle East, where the term "slave" would be used to call them. Racism in the Americas, continued racism in parts of Southern Africa, poverty, degradation and other forms of racism in Latin America, North America and elsewhere are issues to Blacks around the world. The World Conference on Racism was hardly about finding solutions to making racism impotent. It dealt with the issues of other people, while most of the world's oppressed Black people were left with nothing.
African leaders and experts at the African Development Forum on Monday called for intensified political integration as a means of boosting the continent's economies. "We are leaving the OAU behind us," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said of the Organisation for African Unity. "We are embarking on a much more ambitious project of realising the African union," he said.
Delft residents are being evicted from their recently constructed houses, which they used their government subsidies to buy, and the Cape Town city council is now planning to auction these houses off. The houses were built as part of an RDP scheme, and only those earning less than R800 a month could qualify for the housing subsidy. Six months after the contractors built the houses, many of the rooves blew off in the wind.
The United Nations and the government of Angola are failing to protect the rights of millions of people displaced by the country’s civil war, Human Rights Watch have charged.
Racism and discrimination may be contributory factors in the development of schizophrenia, according to a controversial scientific study. The research suggests for the first time that social factors have a major effect on people from ethnic minority groups with a medical predisposition to mental illness.
Please keep the e-bulletin coming. Looks good!
Would be interesting to read your journal on line. Thank you. – PROF SIMON KARIKARI, BOTSWANA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Thabo Mbeki is feuding with allies, fighting his cabinet and losing international friends. How his dissent on AIDS is unraveling his presidency.
This article form cnet details the features of the new release of Flash, Flash MX. Macromedia, developers of the software, seem to have moved it towards an extended platform for web developers in this version.
If the criteria for determining whether an election is free and fair included only what happens on voting days, then it would indeed be unreasonable to pass judgment before March 9 and 10. However, the recommendations set by the SADC Parliamentary Forum make it clear that the polling is only the last step of the process. A free and fair election requires a large number of other conditions which have to be in place long before the voting occurs. Among these are an independent Electoral Commission, equal acces to the media for all parties, free campaigning for everyone throughout the country, and the provision of transparent ballot boxes. None of these conditions are present in Zimbabwe. On the contrary, the Electoral Commission is appointed by the President alone and has staff seconded mainly from the military; the opposition has been denied access to the radio and TV which are owned by the government and blatantly campaign for ZANU PF; the opposition has been prevented by organised violence from campaigning openly in many parts of the country, and have frequently been refused permission to hold rallies; we retain the old wooden ballot boxes whose bottoms can be unscrewed in spite of an offer of free transparent boxes.
The level of violence in Zimbabwe, mainy directed at the opposition, simply does not permit a normal election campaigning process to take place. Under such circumstances, it is possible to make a judgment that the election cannot be free and fair according to SADC standards.
What observer teams normally end up doing is deciding whether an election is credible or believable. Whether you believe something or not is to some extent subjective. But given the obstacles mentioned above, it would be possible to say that a win for the oppostion can be credible, but a win for the ruling party can not.
I refer to an article by Mary Ndlovu refering to the March elections in Zimbabwe. At times I really wonder if when we hold elections in Africa, do we really understand what we will be doing. According to Mary's analysis, the Zimbabwean election will never be free and fair if Mugabe wins. I find it hard to believe such a statement could come from someone who believes in true democracy. Why do you say that Mugabe has already lost when voting itself hasn't started. I find this kind of thinking very disturbing. Its the kind of thinking that results in violence, because to Mary its foregone conclusion. As things stand now as far as I am concerned the odds are even.
Georges Ruggiu, a former journalist at Radio Television Libre Des Mille Collines (RTLM), has psychological problems that affect his recollection of events during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a defense attorney today claimed before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
These have been tough days for anyone interested in producing quality content on the web in Africa. With the end of the dot.com boom, there has been a steady trickle of content web site owners pulling down the shutters and calling it a day. Content has not generated cash. With only a few high-profile exceptions, no one - neither users nor advertisers - seem to want to pay for it. Nonetheless there are those who have worked out a way of surviving and thriving by keeping their operations lean and virtual and/or making them an adjunct to some other activity.
Wired features an article introducing some of the political issues around digital copyright. "Two treaties taking effect this [year could] expand the reach of controversial American legislation designed to regulate the Internet."
An interesting article at CNET details the planned implemtentation of a supercomputing grid in India. India is a developing country, but this has not stopped it's rapid progress in the world of ICTs. It is on the way to becoming a serious contender in the digital world.
Former Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods, as founder of the Steve Biko journalism bursary scheme, had raised money to train 25 black students since 1994.
You can use links on your web page to make Google's search algorithm work for you - read this article and learn how to make a Google Bomb for justice.
The Universal Troubleshooting Process (UTP) is an abbreviated version of the book Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist by Steve Litt. UTP consists of ten steps designed to help modern workers diagnose the system in question and ultimately repair it. The process is very general and can be applied to virtually any well-defined system.
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Umhlaba Development Services aims to promote the effective delivery of development programmes and policy by building the capacity of development institutions and organisations, and the client communities they serve. The services offered focus on two key elements of practice: Organisational Development, and Organisational Evaluations.
The African National Congress has reacted furiously to a Newsweek report saying Thabo Mbeki's presidency is unravelling over HIV/Aids, branding it "a badly written movie script camouflaged as analysis", aimed at destabilising the ANC, its leadership and the government, writes Drew Forrest.
BusinessMap SA, an investment information and research group, requires a research director, with responsibility for black economic empowerment.
The European Union (EU) has allocated €27-million in support of humanitarian operations for refugees in Tanzania this year. This is in addition to €4-million issued earlier this year to non-governmental organisations working in refugee camps in the country, and administered through the European Commission's Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
Trau-Mail is an initiative of an independent organisation with the objective of enabling South Africans to share their traumatic experiences with others.
An Urban Greening Fund - with more than R1-million in seed capital from government - was launched in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra. The aim of the fund is to improve the quality of people's lives by transforming townships through greening.
The Directory of Development Organizations lists 25,000 contacts of organizations that offer "(non-) financial support, market access, information and advice to the enterprise and poverty-reducing sectors in low-income countries." Contact details include the organization's mail and street address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail and Web page address (if available).
A trust fund set up by Northern Cape government for rape victim Baby Thsepang to hold a benefit concert for her. The humanitarian gesture will see local musicians donating R35,000 each and all the gatetaking will go directly to the fund.
The days of fast-fading cellular phone batteries may soon be over. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently developed a working prototype for a portable fuel cell energy source that could power a cellular phone 300 percent longer than existing rechargeable batteries do.
SANGONeT is offering courses in HTML and web publishing, Using & Managing Online Discussion Forums, and Information & Communication Technology (A strategic Approach).
Community Video Education Trust (CVET) conducts entry-level video production training courses to 'bridge the gap' for those seeking entry into the film and video industry. It is seeking a Programme Director.
Judge Felicia Coleman of the criminal Court "A" has for the second time in less than one week prevented journalists from covering proceedings at the court. Yesterday, she denied journalists coverage of the treason trial involving some Liberians nabbed in connection with street fighting involving supporters of former faction leader Roosevelt Johnson and forces of the Liberian Government.
Slashdot features and interesting debate around the meeting of ICANN in Ghana soon. The main article deals with issues around the nature of ICANN. Scroll down to read the debate, or take part.
A resource guide has been produced, entitled 'Drawing Our Lives', which outlines the methodology used by the DWEBA project, and provides some guidelines for activities using drawing which could be used within most training or development contexts.
Using its network, experience and understanding of leadership requirements in the current NGO context, FMA Consulting will assist organisations to effectively and efficiently run their recruitment processes and to find top candidates to fill their available positions.
Development Action Group (DAG) is a leading urban development NGO in the Western Cape that supports and implements community housing and development projects and processes, and that works towards the creation of an enabling, community sensitive policy environment. It is looking for an accountant.
"If we have racism," writes Robin Chandler, "a digital divide is its new colonial frontier." He suggests that IT has become an important site of struggle for democracy and social and economic justice.
The National Assembly and National Council of Provinces has released a report of the Joint Monitoring Committee on Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of Women. The paper asks how best South Africa can address the horrific impact of HIV/Aids on women and girls.
The poorest countries continue to be marked by gender inequality that, for many women, limits their schooling, hinders their ability to plan their pregnancies, and affords them few economic opportunities.
The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors’ Forum (WEF) have protested against the recent arrest of two journalists, Edwina Spicer and Jackie Cahi in Zimbabwe, calling it “the latest part of an ongoing government campaign to intimidate journalists”.
The governments of Zimbabwe and Mozambique have come in for sharp criticism for their repressive approach to the media in the latest edition of the Commonwealth Press Union's broadsheet "CPU News".
At a time when technology is making life easier for mankind, it is ironical that a key tool of the trade for journalists – the camera – is being banned from Kenya's courts. This follows a tradition set by Parliament, where photojournalists are also barred.
The Communiqué provides weekly news on free expression and press freedom violations and victories world-wide, including reports and developments in Africa. Our publication features up-to-date information on conferences, workshops, and journalism awards and fellowships. We also monitor developments in the field of free expression, such as press laws, media concentration and Internet censorship. Published in English, French and Spanish.
The Tech Museum of Innovation, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, is now seeking nominations for its 2002 global awards. The program draws international attention to individuals, for-profit companies, and public and not-for-profit organizations that are using technology to improve the quality of life around the world in five universal categories: Education, Equality, Economic Development, Environment, and Health. Nominations are welcome from all sources, including self-nominations. Individuals, for-profit companies, and public or non-profit organizations are eligible. The simple nomination form can be filled out online.