This position provides the opportunity to support existing advocacy coalitions and campaigns on women's human rights in a stimulating, multicultural and dynamic environment.

Two people were killed on 5 January when the Tanzanian police force opened fire on supporters of political party Chama Cha Demokrasia who were engaged in a peaceful protest in Arusha. The Tanganyika Law Society has issued a statement condemning the use of excessive force by police and calling on the government to uphold and strengthen the rule of law and good governance.

created by a coalition of human rights organisations condemning the Israeli government for its actions against refugees and asylum seekers that deny them ‘their right to dignity and contravene Israel’s obligations under international human rights and refugee law’.

Israel’s plans to deter asylum seekers include refusing them the right to work and the opening of a refugee camp in a remote location where 10,000 people could be held indefinitely, and provided with only their basic needs. Around 85 per cent of Israel’s 30,000 asylum seekers are Eritrean or Sudanese.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s public criticism of Israeli policy towards Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank has triggered accusations of anti-Semitism and calls for him to step down as patron of the South African Holocaust Foundation. Sign a in support of a man whose ‘life has been lived in the spirit of “never again” – the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust.’

As the new year starts, millions of hard-working men and women gather the money they have saved throughout the year, go to a local Western Union office and wire it to their relatives throughout the developing world. But up to 20 per cent of these savings are taken in transfer fees, allowing companies to make billions of dollars in profit on the backs of the world's neediest.

The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) is an independent international NGO whose purpose is to combat discrimination and promote equality as a fundamental human right and a basic principle of social justice. Following the award of a new project grant, the Trust is seeking a Research and Advocacy Assistant to support its Statelessness Projects.

In what is being hailed as a victory by human rights activists, a Ugandan court has issued an interim order restraining the editors of the Rolling Stone tabloid from any further publication of information about anyone alleged to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

The following are a selection of petitions available online in support of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

We members of SuWEP from both sectors North & South met at Afhad University for Women in Khartoum during the period from 12th to 13th of December, 2010 to discuss issues that affects women in the pre, during and post referendum periods.

Barely four months after passing Kenya's new Constitution, Kenya has entered a very dark hour. The peoples' freedom of assembly has been violated by the police presumably on the orders of the President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Hon Eugene Wamalwa, Maina Njenga, Tony Gachoka and others were brutally beaten, teargassed as they attempted to enter the historic Kamukunji grounds for a rally that had been licenced in writing by the Government of Kenya through the Nairobi Police.

On Friday, December 17, from 9:00am-5:00pm, the Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Program (BHESP), in collaboration with the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA) and other local women’s rights and human rights organizations, will commemorate International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers.

Wherever change needs to occur, advocacy has a role to play. In this age of globalisation, development practitioners and civil society actors around the world are increasingly finding the need to be actively engaged in influencing the policies, programs and laws that affect their work at the grassroots level. Whether the goal is to protect a threatened watershed, get funding for a health clinic, enact laws to make buildings accessible for people with disabilities, or change laws which discriminate against women, advocacy can help to accomplish those goals. This three-week certificate explores advocacy as a political act. It is designed to enhance the capacity of civil society to influence decision-makers and policy makers by building the constituency for change and mobilising public opinion around issues of common concern.

More than 20 million people will be vaccinated between now and the end of the year in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as a mass vaccination campaign using a new conjugate vaccine unfolds across West Africa. Manufactured in India, MenAfriVac offers health authorities a powerful weapon against a deadly disease. Meningitis is an infection of the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal column. It is most prevalent in a region known as 'the meningitis belt', which extends across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east.

Although we share a recognition that hunger, poverty, and climate change are inter-related through the medium of agricultural policies, we are writing to express our strong concerns that the Foundation’s approach to these issues—directly and through its Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) subsidiary—is unlikely to adequately address them and may well aggravate their underlying causes.

FEW, a Johannesburg based organisation that advocates for lesbians’ rights, has strongly condemned the vicious attack of 21-year-old Ncumisa Mzamelo in an apparent hate crime.

'We do not accept that shack fires are natural disasters. Shack fires are the result of the social abandonment of the poor. We will continue to politicise shack fires and we will continue to fight for our full social inclusion in this society.'

We wish to begin this statement by thanking all of those people and organisations that have stood by our movement in the difficult times that followed the attack and then this ongoing trial. Your solidarity is much appreciated.

We as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex people (LGBTI) activists salute the workers of South Africa as they celebrate 25 years of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).

As workers celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the whisper of 'back to basics' is gaining momentum, writes Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen. 'COSATU faces significant challenges in its continued long-term role. These challenges include an older union membership, new forms of economic activity that make organising difficult as well as a more fluid environment with a multiplicity of voices on public policy issues. Thus, COSATU needs new forms of membership that it can utilise to mobilise sections of the working class that it has not traditionally organised.'

With Ireland in the throes of pervasive public-spending cuts following its financial bailout, Horace Campbell calls for solidarity and the need to ‘internationalise the resistance in order to change the system’.