Oak International Human Rights Fellowship: The Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights was established in 1998 by a generous grant from the Oak Foundation.

Each year, it hosts an Oak Human Rights Fellow to teach and conduct research while residing at the College.

The Institute organizes lectures and other events centered around the fellow’s area of expertise.

The purpose of the fellowship is to offer an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from front-line work to spend the fall semester (September-December) in residence at Colby.

This provides the Fellow time for respite, reflection, research, and writing.

While all human rights practitioners are eligible, we especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in “on-the-ground” work at some level of personal risk.

Following the period of the fellowship, the fellow is expected to return home to continue her/his human rights work.

The Oak Institute seeks one frontline human rights practitioner outside of the United States for residence at Colby.

Possible areas of human rights work on behalf of those incarcerated may include, but are not limited to:

• living standards and health care in prisons, pretrial detention
• illegal imprisonment
• detained non-citizens
• the right of legal representation
• juvenile detention
• education and practical training for inmates
• post-detention rehabilitation
• families of inmates
• disciplinary procedures
• prison privatization
• gender and racial discrimination in incarceration
• political prisoners, prisoners of war, torture, sexual abuse, brutality, and the death penalty.

Application Deadline: 15th December.

For more information and application, visit: Oak International Human Rights Fellowship Website

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MIT Fellowships: Each year, the Public Service Fellowship program provides MIT students with the opportunity to use their education, skills, and talents to address the needs of underserved communities around the world.

Each year, 50 MIT students receive funding for a Public Service Fellowship, over fall, IAP, spring, and summer.

Past Fellows have worked to build capacity for communities and organizations in 22 countries on four continents.

Scholarship Application Eligibility Criteria:

• Potential for sustainable benefit to an underserved community (direct benefit or through a community organization or non-profit organization)
• Potential for the Fellow’s growth/educational value convincingly explained
• Evidence of strong motivation to carry out the project
• Potential for effective supervisor-student relationship
• Application materials explain how the project matches the community’s needs
• Project seems realistic and feasible: scope matches student qualifications, time frame, supervisor expertise and input, etc.

Fellowships may be undertaken in the Cambridge area, elsewhere in the US, or across the globe.

The Fellowships stipend is $10 an hour for Individual and Group Fellowships.

Team Fellowships cover agreed expenses such as airfare, necessary ground transportation, and on-site housing but do not pay a stipend.

Contact: Public Service Center, Room 4-104, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Tel: 617-253-0742. Fax: 617-258-9357.

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MIT Fellowships: Each year, the Public Service Fellowship program provides MIT students with the opportunity to use their education, skills, and talents to address the needs of underserved communities around the world.

Each year, 50 MIT students receive funding for a Public Service Fellowship, over fall, IAP, spring, and summer.

Past Fellows have worked to build capacity for communities and organizations in 22 countries on four continents.

Scholarship Application Eligibility Criteria:

• Potential for sustainable benefit to an underserved community (direct benefit or through a community organization or non-profit organization)
• Potential for the Fellow’s growth/educational value convincingly explained
• Evidence of strong motivation to carry out the project
• Potential for effective supervisor-student relationship
• Application materials explain how the project matches the community’s needs
• Project seems realistic and feasible: scope matches student qualifications, time frame, supervisor expertise and input, etc.

Fellowships may be undertaken in the Cambridge area, elsewhere in the US, or across the globe.

The Fellowships stipend is $10 an hour for Individual and Group Fellowships.

Team Fellowships cover agreed expenses such as airfare, necessary ground transportation, and on-site housing but do not pay a stipend.

Contact: Public Service Center, Room 4-104, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Tel: 617-253-0742. Fax: 617-258-9357.

More information; MIT Fellowships

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Research projects should be aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health.

Fellowship Eligibility

Applications are only accepted in the Public Health and TropicalMedicine Interview Committee remit. This covers research oninfectious and non-communicable diseases within the fields ofpublic health and tropical medicine that is aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health.

This can include laboratory based molecular analysis of field orclinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal models will not normally be considered under this scheme.

You must be a national or legal resident of a low- and middle–income country, and be either a:

• graduate in a subject relevant to public health or tropical medicine (for example; biomedical or social science, veterinary medicine, physics, chemistry or mathematics) with a PhD and at least five years’ postdoctoral experience, or
• medical graduate with a higher qualification equivalent to membership of the UK Royal College of Physicians (i.e. qualified to enter higher specialist training), or be recognised as a specialist within a relevant research area, and have at least five years’ research experience.

Applicants who do not have a PhD but who are educated to first degree or Master’s level and have substantial research experience, as evidenced by their publication record, may be considered.

Fellowship Applications

Fellowships are for up to five years in the first instance and provide support that includes:

• a basic salary
• research expenses (e.g. consumables, equipment, collaborativetravel, research assistance, technical support, fieldwork and data collection)
• training costs where appropriate and justified
• an inflation allowance and support to attend scientific meetings.

Contributions to costs of the project that are directly incurredby the overseas institution may also be provided.

The salary should normally be based on the pay scales of the employing institution and must be justified by the head of theinstitution.

The salary level should be appropriate for the holder of a competitive grant and allow him/her to focus fulltime on research.

If the fellow is already in receipt of a salary from the hostinstitution, the host institution may use the salary to pay fora replacement member of staff while we provide the fellow’s salary for the duration of the fellowship.

It is not expected that the fellow will hold a salary in addition to the one provided by the Trust.

Overseas allowances will be provided for periods of training or collaborative research spent outside the home institution country, where appropriate.

Research-dedicated costs (excluding salary costs) should not exceed £100 000 per annum.

This fellowship is subject to competitive rolling scientific review every five years, and will be renewed on the basis that the Trust and the host institution will jointly fund the Senior Fellow’s basic employment costs through a partnership arrangement for the duration of any renewal period.

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We have been told that Ross kissed Chandiru without knowing that her hubby was around. The kiss Ross gave Chandiru looked like an enchroachment on Alaka’s territory.

Singer Chandiru looked so excited when Michael Ross kissed her. We are also told that Alaka looked comfortable when Ross kissed his Chandiru.

However we suspect that Ross’ kiss to Chandiru will have an explanation when the female singer returns home to meet the celebrated lawyer. We also here that Ross has apologised to Alaka and the lawyer sounded no problem.

Ultimate Media

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The building is located on Luwum Street. The roofing of City House produces too much water like rain whenever it rains. The rain passes through the roof and falls on the tenants.

After the rainfall, water remains on the floor of city house building. It rained today and our informers tell us that they saw the tenants of this building standing.

The building houses the headquarters of the Democratic Party and the FDC offices Kampala branch. There are also a number of restaurants and shops on the same building.

By Joseph Okello

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