Monitoring and Evaluation Program Assistant, NIS Region

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Apr 23, 2001

Salary / Benefits : $25,500+, commensurate w/experience
Location : Washington, DC, United States
Languages Needed : English, Russian
Closing Date : 1 Jun 2001

IASC Training Modules on Internally Displaced Persons

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Apr 23, 2001

Communicating Human Rights
Dates: 18-23 November 2001
Level: professional
Focus: Using a highly participatory format and global case studies, this seminar is about sharing creative and effective approaches to
communicating human rights.
Location: Kenilworth (United Kingdom)
Organisation: The British Council
Language(s):English.
Keywords: modules, training of trainers, internally displaced persons, international humanitarian law, refugees, refuge...read more

Basic education at a distance

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Apr 23, 2001

At the beginning of the 21st century, about one-fifth of the world’s population is functionally illiterate, unable to participate fully in their societies, or protect their basic rights. Could open and distance learning (ODL) help reduce the growing numbers of undereducated?

Learning to compete

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Apr 23, 2001

At the beginning of the 21st century much of Africa still faces massive challenges to successful economic and social development. Research coordinated by the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh examined what challenges globalisation poses for education, training and enterprise development in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

RESEARCHER MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA DIVISION

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Apr 23, 2001

DESCRIPTION: The researcher will investigate human rights developments in a number of Middle East and North Africa countries and work to publicize and curtail human rights abuses through writing and advocacy. The researcher will be based in New York, Washington, London or Brussels and should be prepared to spend periods of time traveling to the region. APPLY BY MAY 14, 2001.

COMMONWEALTH LAW OFFICER

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Apr 23, 2001

INTERIGHTS now seeks a Commonwealth Law Officer to maintain and develop a comprehensive programme providing worldwide access to comparative Commonwealth human rights law, will be based in London and will join a staff of fifteen, including eight other lawyers, in a multicultural and self-sufficient environment. Salary c. £23,000.

The Institute of Law and Policy (ILP)

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Apr 23, 2001

Established primarily as a training institution for the purpose of continuing education. Its objective is to assist in the building of intellectual and functional capacity of professionals, practitioners, activists, and other functionaries whose work includes a legal component. All courses offered by the Institute are designed to suit the requirements of working people who wish to continue education. The Institute offers four types of courses. These are Specialised, Tailor-made, Professional,...read more

public library of science

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Apr 30, 2001

As of the end of March, more than fourteen thousand scientists from 130 countries have joined in signing the open letter in support of the Public Library of Science initiative. With your help in informing your colleagues about this effort, and encouraging them to support it, the open letter can be published in May with the signatures of 50,000 scientists.

free for All

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Apr 23, 2001

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that it will post most of the ingredients of its courses on the World Wide Web. Lecture notes, assignments, video lectures, course outlines, test questions and reading lists will all be there for anyone to use free of charge. It will apparently cost them 100 million dollars over the next 10 years.

PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST

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Apr 23, 2001

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