The Zimbabwe Democracy Trust (ZDT) today announces the launch of the new site - "an amalgamation of many different websites on Zimbabwe - has been built in order to assist the Trust's efforts in restoring democracy and the rule of law to Zimbabwe.www.zwnews.com will provide extensive news coverage as well as pertinent information on all major issues currently facing Zimbabwe and its people."

The newspaper of the future is nearly on your doorstep.In fact, delivery begins in June when the World Association of Newspapers launches its "Shaping the Newspaper of the Future" project at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum, the global meetings of the world's press.

"Killing journalists is the ultimate and most grisly form of censorship," Judith Blanks, spokeswoman for the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said on World Press Freedom Day (May 3).

£35,000 per annum + benefits. London based. We're looking for a professionally qualified Accountant as our new Director of Finance. Someone with at least five years' post qualification experience
who is IT literate and who has preferably worked within a Charity/NGO.

The Spring Conference offers a critical chance to analyse the problems and set out our priorities prior to the expected June General Election. We can begin to build the foundations of our future together despite New Labour's attempt to sow divisions amongst us, especially through its legislation towards refugees - a practice responsible for countless deaths, splitting of families through forced dispersal programmes, unlawful detentions and imprisonment of innocent people and destitution via the shameful and discriminatory voucher schemes.

takes place on May 23-4, bringing together scholars and activists from Africa, Europe and North America

A Conference organised by the SAEG (South Africa Education Group) c/o Canon Collins Educational Trust for Southern Africa. Venue: Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way London. WC1. Date: Saturday 19th May 2001. 9.30-5.15pm. SPEAKERS/ WORKSHOP LEADERS to include:
Mr Thami Mseleku, Director General, South African Department of Education. Professor Colin Bundy, Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand. Professor Shula Marks, SOAS, University of London. This conference will examine changes in education in South Africa since 1994, paying particular attention to the strategies formulated to address social justice and the eradication of the apartheid past. It will look to future developments and specifically at forms of partnerships that are emerging in the country to
address quality education and social transformation, and the different partnerships being developed between South Africa and the United Kingdom.

COSATU has organized the 2001 May Day celebrations that will take place in its various regions countrywide. The theme of this year’s May Day is “Stop the job loss bloodbath! Create quality jobs; Fight poverty!” We are calling on all workers to attend these events to celebrate the victories that workers have achieved throughout the world.

An embarrassing report from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund released over the weekend casts a dark shadow over their Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, showing little confidence that the controversial debt package will provide an end to the debt crisis for the countries involved.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the largest association of fundraisers in the world, has announced the development of principles for the E-Donor Bill of Rights, a document which lists the rights that donors should expect and demand when making an online charitable gift.

National Institute for Public Interest Law and Research. In 1997, NIPILAR started a project, which specifically looked at civil society’s awareness of their human rights and constitutional instruments and Institutions that promote democratic practice. This report looks at the local SA system and establishes how people know of these and their functions.

To celebrate this year's May Day, on Wednesday 2 May SANGOCO and Interfund are hosting a debate on the merits of and progress in building an alliance
between labour and community activitists, key elements of civil society. DATE: Wednesday 2 May
TIME: 13h00. VENUE: SANGOCO boardroom, 10th floor Auckland House, 185 Smit Street, Braamfontein.

Course number: X12.9226 Tuition: $340 Sec. 1: Thurs. 6.20-8.25 p.m. May 24-July 12 (8 sessions)
Taught by Maria Green, lawyer and director of the International Anti-Poverty Law Center. Held in New York, USA.

Venture Philanthropy 2001: The Changing Landscape highlights a number of issues that characterize the emerging field of venture philanthropy. One of the most compelling is that there is no commonly shared definition for what venture philanthropy is and how it is put into practice.

Multimedia newsrooms are no longer a vision or a controversial challenge. They have become an existing model, to be researched and pursued. More than ever, editors need to get connected to this new reality without losing their core values on the way. The WEF Hong Kong Conference will focus on the fascinating opportunities that the new century is opening up to newspapers and at the same time insist on the discussion on how quality content can be maintained and developed while seizing the new technological opportunities.

April 24, 2001 Volume 7, Issue 17.

The African delegation to the International Conference on Racism in August will highlight issues of poverty, racism and gender, the SA National Non-Governmental Coalition said on Monday. After a meeting to start a joint civil society preparatory initiative, Sangoco president Mercia Andrews said: "It will be a very difficult conference because it is about the underbelly of our society at the moment. "Poverty in South Africa has a certain face... very much a rural women's face. Racism is very much tied up with economics here."

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.

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, and General Courses.

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.