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.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation organises three events this year, all related to our What Next project. In addition, we are also inviting all old and new friends present in Nariboi to an informal gathering in the evening of the 22 January at Boulevard Hotel.

Forty years after Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and almost 60 years after the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, the Palestinian people are at a critical juncture. Global solidarity and support will be decisive in enabling the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom, justice and durable peace to prevail.

The press is in crisis; the worst crisis in its history. For the past three years newspapers and news magazines in France, including Le Monde diplomatique, and almost everywhere in the world have been steadily losing readers. Their delicate economic balance is upset, their survival threatened and, with it, the democratic right to express a range of opinions.

The ECSS 2007 will be held in Trieste, Italy, from 10 to 14 September 2007. The conference is organized by "Abdus Salam" International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Regional Agency for the Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia (ARPA FVG).

The World Social Forum is widely celebrated as an ‘open space’ that has no clearly defined political programme of its own – other than its Charter of Principles - but rather provides a relatively free and undirected space for all those interested in exchanging ideas and experience about the state of the world, or in developing their own programmes, to do so.

Police on Friday (5 January 2007) arrested the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Bank of Commerce, Development and Industry (BCDI), Alfred Kalisa on corruption and office abuse-related charges he allegedly committed at the time he was at the bank's helm.

"As some of us predicted several years ago, Mr. George W. Bush’s policies have now hit the fan. It may be instructive to go back and read what Wayne Brown and I were saying four years, three years and two years ago. You may not have to do that, because what we said then is now being echoed in some sections of the American press."

HIV-negative patients with cirrhosis have low CD4 cell counts, but normal CD4 cell percentages, American researchers report in a study published in the February 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The World Health Organization has issued a call for more pharmaceutical companies to develop d4T and AZT-based fixed dose antiretroviral combinations suitable for use in children of varying ages as part of the drive to expand treatment opportunities for children with HIV in developing countries.