International Criminal Court Vacancy Announcements

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Dec 18, 2003

The following Vacancy Announcements are currently open and crucial for the Court:
* Associate English Translator;
* Associate French Translator;
* Conference Interpreter - English;
* Conference Interpreter - French;
* English Linguist;
* English Reviser/Editor;
* French Linguist;
* French Reviser/Editor.
The ICC website provides more general information on the above-mentioned Vacancies.

Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program

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Dec 18, 2003

Ford Foundation International Fellows may choose to study in any academic discipline or field of study related to the Ford Foundation's three grant-making areas, which are: Asset Building and Community Development; Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom; Peace and Social Justice.

ETHIOPIA: New partnership aims to combat child mortality

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Dec 18, 2003

Almost half a million children in Ethiopia are dying each year from easily preventable diseases, international health officials revealed on Tuesday. Ethiopia has the sixth largest number of children dying annually – with only India, Nigeria, China, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo faring worse.

Ethiopia

ZIMBABWE: Education gains being eroded

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Dec 18, 2003

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that Zimbabwe's humanitarian and economic crises could dramatically reverse its impressive post-independence education gains. To mark the launch this week of the global report, "State of the World's Children", UNICEF Zimbabwe on Friday called for urgent attention to be paid to keeping children, especially girl children, in school.

Zimbabwe

SWAZILAND: Community provides "shoulders to cry on"

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Dec 18, 2003

A legion of volunteer community activists in Swaziland are identifying orphans and vulnerable children - many of them affected by AIDS - and seeing to their nutritional, medical, educational and psychological needs. "The community worker is called 'lihlombe lekukhalela', which means 'shoulder to cry on'. They are the person who children know they can go to for assistance.

Swaziland

Namibia: Only One in 14 Grade 6 Pupils Literate, Says Unicef

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Dec 18, 2003

Only about seven per cent of Grade 6 pupils in Namibia's schools are literate, according to a newly released United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) report on girls' education and development in Namibia. The goal of providing education for all in Namibia has not yet been achieved, the report states. Despite sizeable investment by Government and its partners, Unicef found the quality of Namibian education to be low.

Namibia

Kenya: Staff union branches to negotiate pay

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Dec 18, 2003

The Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) has allowed its branches to negotiate with their university councils over a pay stand-off but insisted only national officials would call off the strike. The union said the strike - now in its second month - could only be called off after members were satisfied over "new salaries the Government will offer".

Kenya

Guinea: Issue of newspaper banned

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Dec 18, 2003

State authorities in Guinea have banned an issue of the weekly newspaper "Jeune Afrique l'Intelligent". According to the Media Foundation for West Africa-Guinea, court officials who carried out the seizure order on 10 December 2003 refused to give reasons for their action. The issue in question carried an article with the headline, "Witch-Hunt in Army", which is said to have displeased the Guinean authorities.

State, NGO’s and Production of Security Norms in the South

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Dec 11, 2003

In December 2004, the PhD program of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD) will jointly host a colloquium under the title “State, NGO's and Production of Security Norms in the South”. The meeting will be held in Paris. The aims are to explore discourses on security as these are formulated by states, multilateral organisations and civil society; to examine the norms and values which inform both the theory and practice of securi...read more

Southern Africa: Programme Officer

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Dec 18, 2003

The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) is seeking a dynamic and committed public health professional as a programme officer to support the work in EQUINET. EQUINET works on issues of equity in health in southern Africa and supports research, policy development and analysis, information dissemination, networking and advocacy through institutions across southern Africa.
The programme officer works closely with the programme manager, the co-ordinators of EQ...read more

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