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.

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.

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?

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, refugee law, reference,Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC), UN Representative of the Secretary General for Internally Displaced Persons, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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

Salary / Benefits : £16750-£19750
Type of work : Full Time
Location : Central London, United Kingdom
Languages Needed : English
Closing Date : 15 May 2001

As pervasive technological change and growing interdependence among countries contribute to restructuring economic activity and shaping everyday life, lifelong learning's value grows. How far have countries progressed toward lifelong learning for all? Who is being left behind, and in what ways? How might schools evolve to address remaining gaps? In this special edition of Education Policy Analysis prepared as background for the 2001 meeting of OECD education ministers, these questions and others are explored.

Provided by the Norwegian Refugee Council/Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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.

Background papers for the World Food Summit Goals
Committee on World Food Security (27th Session)
Rome, Italy, 28 May - 1 June 2001 are now available online: Fostering the Political Will to Fight Hunger, Mobilising Resources to Fight Hunger and New Challenges to the Achievements of the World Food Summit Goals.

New strategies for developing newspaper advertising revenues and market share will be featured in a major session of the World Newspaper Congress in Hong Kong (3-6 June 2001). As the growth in global advertising slows, the session will focus on how newspaper companies can exploit their unique strengths to win more advertiser budgets.

Young man in Tanzania is drowned due to the failure to pay the “poll tax” amounting to Tshs.5000.00 (about US$ 6), reports ForDIA- Kagera.

WITNESS advances human rights advocacy through the use of video and communications technology. The Deputy Director will ideally begin on June 1, 2001. ANNUAL SALARY: Competitive with benefits. SUBMISSIONS: Cover letter, resume, one (1) writing sample, & contact information for three (3) references.
NO LATER THAN APRIL 15, 2001.

Salary: £40,000 - 45,000. Application forms can be obtained from FIELD's website at or by telephone: (+44) (0) 20 7637 7950 Deadline for completed applications: 17 April 2001

Based in Johannesburg, responsible for programming in South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The deadline is April 20, 2001.

Sustainable Development and the New Economy, Cité des Sciences et de 'Industrie, la Villette, Paris, France, 14-16 May 2001.OECD Forum 2001 is an international public conference which brings together Ministers, heads of international organisations, and participants from business, labour, non-governmental organisations and civil society at large. The main objective of the OECD Forum is to foster an open, inclusive dialogue on the opportunities and risks in the increasingly global,knowledge-based economy of the 21st century, and how this new knowledge economy can best function for the betterment of all.

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Kyalami Exhibition & Conference Center, Johannesburg, South Africa,
24-26 April 2001. This conference, being held jointly by African IT Exhibitions & Conferences (AITEC) and the Linux Professionals Association, will provide an educational and commercial platform for the popularization of Linux and its applications in Africa. The presentations will deal with free software and projects on development of network applications. A review of the usage of Linux in Africa will also be presented.

America's newspaper editors should include black journalists in daily news meetings and offer minorities more internships and top management jobs, a black reporters group said Thursday.