GAMBIA/UGANDA/GHANA/MALAWI/GREAT LAKES: COUNTRY DIRECTOR - ActionAid

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Jan 30, 2003

We are looking for dynamic and competent candidates to fill the Country Director positions in the countries in Africa where we work. These are very senior leadership and management positions in the organisation directly reporting to the Africa Regional Director and having functional relationships with counterparts in Africa and other divisions and regions of ActionAid.

Uganda

5th ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON PROCEDURES OF THE AFRICAN REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM

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Jan 30, 2003

The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa is a pan-African NGO that works towards the promotion and protection of human rights and development, through the implementation of African human rights treaties. The Institute will hold its Fifth Annual Workshop on Procedures of the African Regional Human Rights system. The workshop will give participants practical, concrete knowledge of how to use African human rights treaties and enforcement mechanisms in their work.

Call for nominations: Auxillia Chimusoro Awards 2003

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Jan 30, 2003

The Zimbabwe AIDS Policy and Advocacy (ZAPA) project invites nominations for individuals, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), AIDS Service Organisations (ASOs), Community-based Organisations (CBOs) or corporate institutions that have excelled in HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, research, care and support programmes in Zimbabwe for this year's awards ceremony to be held in March 2003.

13th ICASA Updates --1st Call for Abstracts, Deadline Extended

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Jan 30, 2003

The ICASA conference is the forum where every 2 years, African Scientists, Health providers, social leaders, political leaders and communities come together to share experiences and updates on the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The next ICASA (13th ICASA) conference will be held in Nairobi Kenya from 21st - 26th September 2003. Abstracts are invited for presentation at the conference.

Internet Nonprofit Center

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Jan 30, 2003

The Internet Nonprofit Center publishes the Nonprofit FAQ, a resource of information provided by participants in many online discussions about nonprofits and their work. Resources at the Internet Nonprofit Center include Resources for fundraising online and a feature on "Fundraising Productivity".

Angola: 69 percent of Angolans live in poverty

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Jan 30, 2003

For the first time since the end of the Angolan civil war, poverty is mapped in the country. New national statistics have shown that between 68 and 69 percent of Angolans live in poverty, although it is expected that real numbers could be even higher.

Angola

South Africa: SACP to honour Joe Slovo

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Jan 30, 2003

The South African Communist Party will hold a seminar that is aimed at appraising the theoretical contribution to the South African struggle of its late former national chairperson, Joe Slovo within the alliance and the overall South African perspective.

South Africa

new website on human rights funding

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Jan 30, 2003

The International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) web site has been designed as a resource not only for human rights funders but also human rights groups around the world.

ivory coast: Belligerents Recruit Child Soldiers

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Jan 30, 2003

Fatherland TV, a rebel-run television, shows how new recruits, some as young as 13, go through the rigours of military training in northern Cote d'Ivoire. One of the recruits, Alpha Soumahoro, a high school dropout from Bouake, the second city of Cote d'Ivoire, which is held by rebels, says he is fighting to restore the ‘dignity' of his ethnic group, the Dioulas.

Nigeria: care centres give hope for the future

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Jan 30, 2003

Set up in January 2001 by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Umuchigbo community, the Umuchigbo centre is one of 113 early childhood education centres set up on an experimental basis in 10 states in central and southeastern Nigeria with an estimated population of 28 million people. They now have a joint enrolment of 12,108 children managed by 459 teachers or caregivers. The centres are part of a new initiative to give Nigerian children the best possible start in life.

Nigeria

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