Solani & Sutton Communications wishes to appoint a Programme Assistant to work with one of its main customers, Talent Consortium, on the launch of the Global Conservation Trust during the forthcoming World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD).

The Centre is committing a series of small research grants to encourage new and innovative research on civil society. We would thus like to invite researchers to submit proposals in the following thematic areas: The state, shape & size of civil society in South Africa, Civil society in Contemporary democratic era, Civil society and Development, Africa and International.

The course will provide a comprehensive training in facilitation methods and skills based on the Technology of Participation developed over 35 years by the Institute of Cultural Affairs.

This IT Networking training programme is being offered in partnership with International Youth Foundation (IYF), Cisco Learning Institute/Cisco Systems United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Youth Development Trust (YDT)

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) celebrates its 100th issue of Resource Net "Announcements"! A warm thank you to all for your support and contributions. We continue to build "another world" with resolve, intelligence and hope.

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), in association with the World Bank's InfoDev Program, is looking for best practices, case studies and papers for inclusion in a toolkit to guide the evolution of electronic government in developing countries.

Malawi's independent press is the latest casualty of political intolerance in the region, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) said in a statement.

Angola's traditional leaders this week added their voices to the call for an immediate ceasefire and the creation of a sovereign national conference to discuss the country's political future.

A 13-year-old boy who was so severely tortured and beaten by his teacher that he may never be able to father a child has become a loner, a truant and a bed wetter. Kenneth Mpofu from Daantjie tribal trust near Nelspruit enrolled at a new school this week but hasn't received any counselling and can't seem to break from the shackles of the abuse.

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, has reiterated his call for a major new initiative from the rich industrialised nations aimed at tackling poverty. His call for a $50 billion fund to improve the lot of poorer countries, published in a Treasury pamphlet this week, echoes the call he made in a speech to the Washington Press Club last December. Hardly reported at the time this speech was clearly an attempt to put flesh on the bones of the plea heard frequently from sources as diverse as World Bank President, James Wolfensohn and European Commissioner Poul Neilson that when it comes to fighting poverty there is an frightening gap between aspirations and resources.

In a far flug corner of Nigeria, Kibera is a typical shanty town deprived of government health-care workers and teachers. Oxfam is working here in partnership with community leaders, improving sanitation and education opportunities.

The nongovernmental organisation Refugees International on Tuesday expressed concern that the US refugee resettlement programme for the so-called "lost boys of Sudan" had not been matched by an equal effort on behalf of Sudanese refugee girls by the UN refugee agency and the US administration.

Margot Salomon - Minority Rights Group World Conference Against Racism Project Officer - suggests that despite the adverse publicity surrounding the 2001 Durban Conference, the work over the last 18 months has been positive and has made significant contribution towards addressing and combating racism.

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) met to hear the introduction of draft proposals relating to the elimination of racism and racial discrimination. Before the Committee were four draft resolutions, three of them -- all sponsored by Venezuela --relating respectively to the Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination; the follow-up to the World Conference against Racism; and measures to combat contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination.

Less than one per cent of school-going age children with hearing disabilities are currently enrolled in learning institutions, the Kenya Society for Deaf Children (KSDC) statistics show. KSDC says that out of an estimated 230,000 listed cases of deaf and partially deaf children, only 3,500 are attending integrated special primary and secondary schools and technical institutes.

The youth were yesterday challenged to help enforce the Children's Act. The Kenya Girl Guides Association patron, Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, asked the youth to contribute to the operation of the new law. However, she clarified that the law required the effort of children, parents and the government.

After a five-week hiatus following the lava flows from Mt Nyiragongo that caused widespread damage in the town on 17 January, classes will resume as scheduled on Monday, 25 February, for the schoolchildren of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Ecuador deposited its instrument of ratification with the UN on 5 February 2002. This brings the total number of ratifications to 19 out to the 20 needed to enforce the Convention. An updated list of ratifications can be found at the December 18 website.

This manual is intended to serve as international guidelines for the assessment of persons who allege torture and ill-treatment, for investigating cases of alleged torture and for reporting findings to the judiciary or any other investigative body. The documentation methods contained in this manual are also applicable to other contexts, including human rights investigations and monitoring, political asylum evaluations, the defence of individuals who "confess "to crimes during torture and needs assessments for the care of torture victims, among others.

This is a methodology booklet that supplements the Council of Europe's Human Rights Album, an illustrated guide on the European Convention on Human Rights. The booklet is a result of the "Human Rights at School" project by the Milan Simecka Foundation in Slovakia. It contains lessons plans around the Convention and the UDHR and is even without the Human Rights Album a valuable resource for teachers.