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OSISA Brown Bag - Climate Justice

Date of event: 
21 October 2011

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a nonprofit foundation which collaborates with other organisations on issues surrounding the rule of law, democracy building, human rights, economic development, education, media, access to technology and information.

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Journal of Public Policy in Africa: Managing Editor

Application Deadline: 
31 Oct 2011

The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Institute of Peace, Governance and Leadership (IPLG) at the Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe, seek to appoint an energetic Managing Editor.

 

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UN Women: Executive Assistant

Application Deadline: 
28 Oct 2011

UN Women seeks to appoint an Executive Assistant, based in Sunninghill, Johannesburg.

 

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Institute for Security Studies: Office Director

Application Deadline: 
23 Oct 2011

ISS seeks to appoint an Office Director, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

 

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Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa: Assistant Programme Manager

Application Deadline: 
21 Oct 2011

OSISA seeks to appoint an Assistant Programme Manager (APM), based in Johannesburg

 

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Women in Rural Argentina Speak Out on Climate Change

Published date: 
13 Oct 2011

Rural and indigenous women in northern Argentina, hit hard by the expanding agricultural frontier, deforestation and the spraying of toxic pesticides, spoke out about their problems and set forth proposals for discussion at the next global summit on climate change. They did so at the Women's Hearing on Gender and Climate Justice 2011-Argentina, held Tuesday Oct. 11 in Resistencia, the capital of Chaco province, 950 km north of Buenos Aires, attended by representatives of organisations from the northern 10 of the country's 23 provinces.

 

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African Sexualities: A Reader

Date of event: 
11 October 2011

In 2003, Sylvia Tamale was named as the “Worst Woman of the Year” by a conservative bloc within Uganda. Working at the time as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University (she later became its Dean), she was vilified for weeks within one of Kampala’s major daily newspapers, New Vision, as responsible for everything from the moral degeneration of the nation to the reason Ugandan teenagers were going to go to hell.

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Building Pathways and Movements: Feminists Tech Exchange

Building Pathways and Movements: Feminists Tech Exchange
Published date: 
20 Jul 2011

From the 18th to the 20th July 2011, the first Southern African Regional Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) was hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa, by JASS (Just Associates) Southern Africa and Women’s Net. The Feminist Tech Exchange, organized under the Building Women’s Collective Power partnership, brought nine women’s rights activists from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe together to share and build knowledge and skills on communication and ICTs from a feminist perspective. The exchange was convened as a way to strengthen women’s collective organizing power through the use of ICTs. It created a platform for women activists to explore how different forms of technology can support, strengthen or disrupt power and allowed for a greater understanding of emerging technologies, their potential and impact on the rights and lives of women.

 

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Empowered Ladies Luncheon

Date of event: 
1 October 2011

There are currently about 2.5 million orphans in South Africa, and many more children are vulnerable. About half of this number is because of the AIDS pandemic. Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity (Noah) was born in 2000 from a need to take responsibility for these children. Noah’s is to give them an opportunity to grow up into emotionally, psychologically and physically healthy adults.

Noah is hosting the Empowered Ladies Luncheon on 1 October 2011 at Jackal Creek Golf Estate, Johannesburg.

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Tapping Boys in the Struggle for Girls' Equal Rights

Published date: 
22 Sep 2011

Brothers, husbands, boyfriends and fathers are key actors in the creation of a world where girls enjoy the same rights as boys, and will themselves benefit from greater gender equality, stresses a new report from Plan International released Thursday. Plan International (Plan) is an independent children's development organisation that works in 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and to end child poverty. The report features the story of Nixon Otieno Odoyo, a teenager living in Nairobi who helped launch a campaign to provide female students with free sanitary napkins.

 

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