Ivory Coast: Operations Manager

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Aug 05, 2004

Save the Children, UK

Save the Children UK is looking for an experienced Operations Manager to introduce sustainable and efficient management systems for logistics, security, HR, HRD and administration within its Ivory Coast Programme. Successful applicants will have a proven ability to lead and coach a team and possess analytical and problem solving skills. They should also have a good command of the French language.

DRC: Humanitarian Programme Coordinator

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Aug 05, 2004

Oxfam UK

Applicants are sought to manage Oxfam's strategic planning for, and immediate response to, humanitarian emergencies in eastern DRC and to manage emergency response staff in the field. The successful candidate must have at least three years of field experience of humanitarian work, some of it in a management position, as well as knowledge of issues relating to emergency programming, humanitarian law, community involvement and empowerment.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Nigeria: New Teachers Must Be Computer Literate by 2005, Minister

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Aug 05, 2004

The Nigerian Minister of State for Education, Hajia Binta Ibrahim Musa, has said that students of the National Certificate of Education (NCE) in Colleges of Education must be computer literate by 2005 as a pre-condition of their graduation. Speaking at a conference last week she also said that the country should 'seek to promote the use of ICT and distance education as a cost-effective and affordable way of expanding and improving the quality of education systems.'

Nigeria

UK: Report on Somali Community Welcomed

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Aug 05, 2004

A recent report published by the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees and entitled, 'The Somali community in the UK: what we know and how we know it' has been widely welcomed by the representatives from a number of Somali associations. 'In addition to mapping exactly what has already been written on the Somali community, the report addresses what needs to be done to begin to undermine the seemingly perennial disadvantage Somalis face in the UK', the Independent Race and Refugee News N...read more

Mali

LLM in Human Rights Specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Rights

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Jul 29, 2004

The Centre for Human Rights Studies in the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, South Africa, invites applications for admission to study for a Masters Degree (LLM) in Human Rights specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Rights. The LLM in Human Rights specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Rights is the first of its kind on the African continent. It will be launched for the first time in 2005. It is an international programme that is aimed at equipping committed lawyers from the...read more

Sudan: A Call for Sudan

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Jul 29, 2004

Scanning through the mainstream press and digesting the fairly erratic and mostly insipid news on the continuing murders in Sudan, one is gripped by the horrible thought that maybe it is true that nobody cares. After all Bush and his cronies - who were so quick to ignore the United Nations in their dealings with Iraq - now seem only too content to evoke the selfsame authority in order to legitimise their policy of enforced abandonment in regard to Sudan. This selective disengagement seems to ...read more

Zimbabwe: Online newspaper launched

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Jul 29, 2004

Zimbabwean journalists have teamed up to publish a new daily online newspaper: "Zim Online - An independent news service from Zimbabwe", according to a media release. The service will be distributed via the internet (www.zimonline.co.za) and start operating from 7 July 2004. Zim Online aims to help fill the vast information vacuum left by the banning of independent newspapers and the expulsion of all foreign correspondents from Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe

DFID Extends Deadline For Civil Society Challenge Fund Applications

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Jul 29, 2004

The UK Department for International Development has extended the deadline for full Civil Society Challenge Fund applications until 31st October. The move comes as a result of DFID's decision to reassess the scope of the fund with a view to widening its remit to include innovative service delivery programmes.

Africa: Contribute to an alternative report on resolution 1325

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Jul 29, 2004

October 2004 will mark the fourth anniversary of the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. To mark the occasion, the United Nations Secretary-General will publish a report on the progress and challenges in the implementation of the resolution since 2000. The report will not formally seek the input of civil society for the formulation of his report. However, the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security is seeking assistance in creat...read more

Morocco/Nigeria: Leadership workshops create hope for change

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Jul 29, 2004

Approximately 65 women participated in two leadership training workshops conducted by Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) Moroccan partner, L’Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM) in Taza and Ouarzazat. In the remote northeastern town of Taza, twenty-five women and five men participated in the training workshop, the majority of whom were representatives of organizations involved with economic development, social services, education, poverty erad...read more

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