Hana News Agency reports that Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya. With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for the forum's usage and its related activities.

The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

From the Haiti Action Committee: “Rene Civil, one of Haiti's most well respected grass roots activists, is still in jail. Despite massive protests in Haiti calling for the release of all political prisoners, Rene and hundreds of others remain locked down in Haiti's jails. It is past time for their release. We call upon the government of President Rene Preval to stand up to the US/UN occupiers of Haiti and release these political prisoners.”

HIP - Port au Prince, Haiti - In the early morning hours of July 6, 2005 more than 350 UN troops stormed the seaside shantytown of Cite Soleil in a military operation with the stated purpose of halting violence in Haiti. When the shooting stopped seven hours later, more than 26 people, the majority of them unarmed civilians lie dead with scores more wounded.

The International Fellowships Programme (IFP) provides opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. To ensure that Fellows are drawn from more diverse backgrounds than ever before, IFP will actively recruit candidates from social groups and communities that lack systematic access to higher education.

This World Health Organization paper defines the Stop TB Strategy which underpins the second global plan to stop TB (2006-2015). The goal of the strategy is to reduce dramatically the global burden of TB by 2015. It aims to achieve universal access to high-quality diagnosis and treatment; reduce the suffering and socioeconomic burden associated with TB; protect poor and vulnerable populations from TB; and support development of new tools and enable their timely and effective use.

From Iraq to Nigeria, multinational corporations are ignoring human rights, entrenching a culture of abuse and impunity that is difficult to eradicate, a leading anti-apartheid activist warns. Kader Asmal, a former South African minister of education, says the abuses run from environmental degradation around the world to the more than 90,000 security contractors, engaged in murky multi-billion-dollar businesses, in war-torn Iraq.

The University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education is now accepting applications for its part-time Master's degree in International Human Rights Law for 2007/8 admission. For further information please visit the website at If you have any queries or would like to request a printed brochure, please email [email][email protected]

This workshop will provide a critical view of China's growing presence and influence in Africa. At the same time it will also provide a venue for dialogue for a reciprocal solidarity.

On 23rd January 2007, Commonwealth women will come together to discuss and debate this critical question at the World Social Forum in Nairobi.

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, (AMARC) will cover, thanks to the Internet and its world network of community radios the social alternatives to neoliberal globalization discussed by civil society organisations in the 7th World Social Forum (WSF) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from January 20- 25.

Some of the planet's rarest and most unusual animals will be the focus of an ambitious conservation project launched on Tuesday (16 January 2007) by British scientists. The plan will focus on animals traditionally overlooked by conservationists, and will allow the public to track and donate to individual projects via a new website.

All-expense-paid trips are being offered to help ensure that technologists in developing countries have a say in shaping the Internet's architecture for years to come. Given that the Americans and Europeans got to the Internet first, engineers elsewhere have complained they haven't had enough say in some of the Internet's fundamental decisions.

Broadband internet access has become cheaper than dial-up for the first time, figures show. Consumers with a dial-up connection are now almost certain to make savings by switching to broadband, irrespective of whether they pay per minute or via a monthly fee for unlimited access, according to SimplySwitch.com, the price-comparison service.

With US credibility undermined by the Bush administration’s use of torture and detention without trial, the European Union must fill the leadership void on human rights, Human Rights Watch said today (11 January 2007) in releasing its World Report 2007.

We are pleased to announce that the 24th International Literature and Psychology Conference will be held July 4-9, 2007 at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Our host will be Aleksandar Dimitrijevic.

The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University is offering postdoctoral fellowships for 2007-08. Up to two fellowships will be available. The fellowships are part of the FHI's 2007-08 seminar, entitled RECYCLE and co-convened by Duke faculty members Neil De Marchi (Economics), Mark Anthony Neal (African & African American Studies), and Annabel J. Wharton (Art, Art History & Visual Studies).

Scholars early in their careers are encouraged to submit papers on any aspect of communal societies past or present for consideration for the Communal Studies Association Starting Scholar Award. The Donald Durnbaugh Starting Scholar Award is designed to encourage and recognize new authors in the field of communal studies.

Racist and fascist speech is alive and well, transmitted over the airwaves and cables of major U.S. media. Hosts who call for the burning alive, torture and lynching of minorities and leftists are paid big bucks to spread hate, while bloggers who ‘out’ the culprits can be shut down.

As the 7th edition of the World Social Forum converges in Nairobi under the slogan ‘Another World is Possible’, Alliance Française presents an exhibition by three of Kenya’s leading contemporary painters and sculptors, aptly titled ‘My World, Your World’, inviting visitors and residents alike to share and exchange differing perceptions of our world and appreciate the heterogeneity of contemporary Kenyan art.