Working to Advance African Women Foundation Scholarship: Working to Advance African Women (WAAW) foundation scholarship program offers $500/year for need-based female African students admitted to a University, College or institute of higher learning in Africa.

These scholarships for women in Africa are renewable annually, following proof of the student’s continued academic performance. Scholarships application deadline is December every year.

Scholarship Application Eligibility Criteria:

Female students of African origin, who have gained admission to an institution of higher learning in Africa.

• Able to demonstrate financial need.
• Excellent academic record.

Special consideration will also be given to underprivileged students, orphans and children of widows, students in the first or second year of study, and students admitted to engineering, math, technology and science based programs.

Your application package must include the following:

• Application form (download in PDF format).
• Curriculum vita or resume.
• A 1-2 page essay on your future career goals and how you expect the Working to Advance African Women (WAAW) foundation scholarship will assist in fulfilling those goals.
• Two letters of recommendation, preferably from academic mentors/advisors.
• Current University transcrips, if applicable.

Please complete all sections of the application form and submit all required materials to WAAW foundation.

Completed application forms and supporting documents should preferably be submitted electronically (with subject heading: Scholarship).

Application deadline: December every year.

Application materials may also be mailed to: Scholarship Application, WAAW Foundation 209 Rugen Lane, College Station, Texas, USA 77845. E-mail: scholarship[at]waawfoundation.org

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CWC offers internship programmes for individuals of various disciplines from all over the world.

These internships are tailor-made to match the qualifications and expertise of the applicant organisational requirements.

The programmes are usually three to six months in duration. However, this varies according to the time available to the intern and the requirements of the project.

If you are interested in Concerned for Working Children Internships, then you should review these questions.

• Do you want the experience of working directly with children?
• Do you want to know more about children’s rights?
• Do you want to learn how to enable children to participate in decision-making processes?
• Do you want to know how to design participatory strategies with children?
• Do you want to contribute to furthering the rights of children?
• Do you enjoy working with children?
• Do you wish to use your expertise in law, research, communications, design, architecture, marketing, management etc; to further the cause of children’s rights?

If your answer to any of the questions above is ‘yes’, you should rush your application for an internship programme with CWC.

For more information see; Concerned for Working Children Internships

 Concerned for Working Children Internships

CWC offers internship programmes for individuals of various disciplines from all over the world.

These internships are tailor-made to match the qualifications and expertise of the applicant organisational requirements.

The programmes are usually three to six months in duration. However, this varies according to the time available to the intern and the requirements of the project.

If you are interested in Concerned for Working Children Internships, then you should review these questions.

• Do you want the experience of working directly with children?
• Do you want to know more about children’s rights?
• Do you want to learn how to enable children to participate in decision-making processes?
• Do you want to know how to design participatory strategies with children?
• Do you want to contribute to furthering the rights of children?
• Do you enjoy working with children?
• Do you wish to use your expertise in law, research, communications, design, architecture, marketing, management etc; to further the cause of children’s rights?

If your answer to any of the questions above is ‘yes’, you should rush your application for an internship programme with CWC.

For more information see; Concerned for Working Children Internships

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Work Experience Placements in UK: Applications invited for 3 months training & work experience placements in London.

International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) is an initiative set up by leading law firms and academics, which aims to develop African lawyers’ legal skills in international law, banking and finance, corporate and commercial law and dispute resolution in an international context.

Applications are invited from qualified lawyers:

• · Working or seeking to work in private practice or government service
• · Committed to developing their legal skills in international law, commercial law and/or dispute resolution

Candidate Specification

• · Degree in law or and admitted to practice as a lawyer in home jurisdiction
• · Excellent academics (minimum of a 2.1 or equivalent) from a university with a reputable law faculty
• · Professional legal experience at the national level, with emphasis in public international law, corporate and commercial or banking and finance law
• · Experience as Government/state lawyers in the context of international law preferable
• · Not more than associate level post-qualification experience i.e. not a partner
• · Fluency in spoken and written English essential
• · Written undertaking to complete the placement
• · Written undertaking to return home after completion of the placement

The Placement

Candidates will be placed with commercial law firms. As such, their legal expertise should match those of the host firm’s areas of practice e.g. corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution (arbitration, litigation and ADR), public international law, banking and finance.

Candidates will be provided with:

• · Visa application assistance
• · Visa fee
• · Flight arrangements
• · Airfares
• · Appropriate accommodation (food and laundry facilities not provided)
• · A weekly allowance
• · Monthly travel card for buses and underground trains which cover travel in the London area only

For more information and application, see: Work Experience Placements in UK.

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“The challenges and difficulties of these negotiations cannot be faced with dismay and must not lead us to give up without a fight,” said Ambassador Jorge Argüello the Chair of the G77 and China at the opening of the UN climate conference.

“We hope all Parties will come to Durban prepared to make the difficult political decisions that are indispensable to preserve the process and the Convention, which will mean to continue to give all of us a fighting chance to prevent temperature raises such as the science is warning us will have dire consequences.” The Ambassador said.

The Group of 77 and China met throughout the weekend to prepare for the coming two weeks of negotiations. From 28 November to 9 December, 2011,  the Seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) and the Seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP7), as well as the resumed 14th sessions of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol, and the 35th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) will be meeting in different formats, building towards the High Level Segment that will take place from 6 to 9 December.

In the extensive International Conference Center in Durban, South Africa, representatives from over 190 countries as well as civil society, academia and the media met today for the inauguration of the Climate Change Summit. The President of South Africa, H.E. Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, inaugurated the COP17 together with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and former President of COP16, H.E. Patricia Espinosa Castellano, the newly-elected President of COP17 and Minister of International Relations of South Africa, H.E. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, and the Executive Secretary of UNFCCC, Ms. Christiana Figueres and other African leaders. All the major Groups taking part in these negotiations took the floor to pledge their support to the South African presidency and offer their perspective on the coming negotiations and on the possible paths to a successful outcome. A general feeling of deep concern and the need for greater and more decisive action, as well as higher ambition, prevailed in most speakers. Many Groups expressed their commitment to work to make Durban a new step forward towards the protection of the climate system. Some Developed Parties, nevertheless, insisted in inflexible positions that would make real progress in this session quite difficult.

During the past days, representatives from the 132 States members of the Group of 77 and China met to review and assess the situation after the progress made in Panama and the developments during the inter-sessional period.

A positive and active spirit was seen in the many consultations and the in-depth discussions that Group of 77 and China held on some of the possible scenarios for the coming days, taking into account positions expressed by several Parties as well as by experts, science and civil society. There was general agreement that we need to build on the current momentum to achieve in this meeting a comprehensive and balanced outcome with concrete decisions for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

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