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12th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications

Date of event: 
21 September 2010 - 23 September 2010

The Graduate School of Business at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is hosting the 12th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications from 21-23 September 2010 in Durban.


The conference will emphasise new research results with regard to Web-based applications in the academic world as well as industry.
Registration: Click http://www.zaw3.co.za/index.php/ZA-WWW/2010/schedConf/registration

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NGO Week 2010: Building to Solidarity to Fight Poverty and Inequality

Date of event: 
20 September 2010 - 25 September 2010

NGO Week is a powerful civil society advocacy campaign which provides us with an opportunity to come together to: raise issues of common concern, share skills, knowledge, work and insights. promote and strengthen civil society’s role re-claim education and ‘learn our way out’, collectively share our collective experiences, knowledges, works and views foster ongoing working relationships; and devise strategic and practical ways to address poverty and inequality


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Sixty Women Researchers Recognised

Published date: 
23 Aug 2010

A passion fruit pathologist, a catfish breeder, and a pigeon pea researcher are among the 60 outstanding women agricultural scientists from 10 African countries who received a fellowship from African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).

 

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Govt Committed to Gender Equality -- Official

Published date: 
23 Aug 2010

THE inclusive Government is committed to achieving gender equality in line with the Sadc Protocol on Gender and Development, as it is a key ingredient in the development of society, a senior official has said.

 

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Arming Women for National Development

Published date: 
23 Aug 2010

Women participation in politics and national development remain very low and some experts argue that it is because Nigerian women have the wrong attitude towards these critical areas of nation building. But efforts are being made to address the trend and properly arm women for national development. A recent national summit is one of such efforts, writes.

 

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Maputo Protocol a Work in Progress

Published date: 
20 Aug 2010

Kenyans are still euphoric over the referendum endorsing a progressive new constitution; but the heat generated by its opponents around their main rallying point - abortion rights - is a reminder of the wide gap between law and implementation in Africa, particularly when it concerns women's rights.

 

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Native Women in Bolivia's Lowlands Build Leadership Skills

Published date: 
20 Aug 2010

In the northeastern Bolivian department (province) of Beni, a region of wetlands, savannah and jungle where three-quarters of the population lives in poverty, indigenous women are building a new kind of leadership to help develop their communities.

 

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Burkinabé Women's Economic Empowerment Key to Girls' Education

Published date: 
18 Aug 2010

An initiative to keep girls in school by supporting income-generating activities for their mothers is bearing fruit in Burkina Faso, where poverty and cultural values still deprive many girls of an education.

 

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"Feminism Doesn't Bite"

Published date: 
19 Aug 2010

After more than a century of existence, feminism is still around in Latin America and the world, but the history of this ideology that seeks equality for women is like a succession of breaking waves, with peaks and troughs

 

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Woman Candidate Breathes New Life into Left

Published date: 
18 Aug 2010

The campaign for the October municipal elections in Peru has brought new hope to the badly weakened left, in the form of Susana Villarán, who has shot up from the "other candidates" category to third in the polls in the race for the mayor's office in Lima.

 

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