This workshop will cover diverse aspects of conflict transformation and peace building, and is aimed at capacity building for people working in conflict transformation, development, human rights and related fields on the African continent.

Thirty countries signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime last week. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe member states, plus the U.S., Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at an international meeting in Budapest.

Eight in 10 South Africans are concerned about contracting HIV/AIDS or another sexually transmitted infection, but many are not protecting themselves, a major international sex survey revealed.

NGOs want to reassert their roles in shaping public policy and becoming a delivery partner in the alleviation of poverty, health issues, joblessness and homelessness, according to Zakes Hlatswayo, the newly elected president of the South African National NGO Coalition.

The Dobozu Youth Development Association DYDA is holding an event which will involve educating the public about the dangers of Aids to the community. The responsibility is everybody's . The theme this year is 'MEN AND AIDS' DO YOU CARE? The function will emphasisize the role and responsibility of men in stopping the spread of aids.

The Dobozu Youth Development Association DYDA is holding an
event which will involve educating the public about the dangers of Aids to the community. The responsibility is everybody's . The theme this year is 'MEN AND AIDS' DO YOU CARE? The function will emphasisize the role and responsibility of men in stopping the spread of aids.

The Non Profit Partnership wish to appoint a Junior Attorney, with a right of appearance within the NPO Tax Communication and Support Services Programme. This is a two-year contract, Cape Town-based position.

Reporting to: Digital Information Coordinator, Digital Information Unit, The
Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (www.eisa.org.za). EISA is a non-profit organisation working towards strengthening democracy and elections in the SADC region.

The South African government was accused in court this week of sacrificing the lives of tens of thousands of babies by its "insane" policy of refusing to make anti-Aids drugs widely available to pregnant women.

THE Constitutional Court has been asked to decide upon the constitutionality of a clause of the Code of Conduct for Broadcasting Services which is alleged to have a "chilling effect" on the right to freedom of expression.

In this study published in AIDS, the authors found an extremely high prevalence of HIV among young women (34%) and men (9%) aged 14-24 years from a township in the Carletonville district of South Africa. The authors suggest that these
remarkable findings are due to high rates of HIV transmission from
men to women, and the major role played by HSV-2 (herpes simplex virus type 2) in the spread of HIV in this population.

AIDS activists from the Treatment Action Campaign and other groups will begin a court case Monday against the South African National Department of Health and eight of nine provincial health ministers, alleging that government health officials are "violating [AIDS] sufferers' constitutional right to life and health care" by not providing the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to the nation's pregnant women to reduce the risk of vertical transmission, Reuters/Contra Costa Times reports.

South African President, Mr Thambo Mbeki has urged African youth to master
the Internet technology and use it to solve the enormous problems confronting the continent.

In South Africa, boarding schools register more strikes and other forms of students' agitation than other schools. A reason being advances is that children in these schools live away from their families at a time when they
badly need guidance.

The Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (RAPCAN) is an NGO based in South Africa committed to the development of innovative child abuse prevention strategies which combat the patterns of abuse which affect the lives of children and adults everywhere. RAPCAN seeks to appoint a Training Manager to join its training team.

The AGI has received funding from Rockefeller Foundation to continue its highly successful Associates Programme into 2002. The aim of the programme is for a limited number of African women, who are middle to senior level scholars, from across the continent to be offered the opportunity to be based at the University of Cape Town.

Sign an online petition to support the Mother to Child Transmission court case being brought by the Treatment Action Campaign against the
Government.

The 16 Days of Activism Against gender Violence starts on the 25th of November. Women'sNet has added a new page to their site for more information.

STE Publishers is a young, savvy publishing house and design studio, focussing on quality publications in the development sector. It is looking to employ a sales consultant.

The South African arm of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction has asked the Cape High Court to torpedo the multibillion-rand arms deal on behalf of the "the poor people of South Africa".