Egypt: Government Closes Human Rights Center: In response to the Egyptian government’s order closing the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture on February 9, as part of the tightening restrictions on civil society, Freedom House issued the following statement: “By physically sealing the doorway of the Nadeem Center, Egyptian … [Read more...] about Egypt: Government Closes Human Rights Center
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Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies Opens Field Office in Tunisia
Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies Opens Field Office in Tunisia: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) (http://CMES.fas.Harvard.edu) at Harvard University today opened its first overseas office, in Tunisia, home to a tradition of learning and research that extends from Antiquity to the present. The office and the year-round programs run from the location … [Read more...] about Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies Opens Field Office in Tunisia
SA News: TVD Live: Yasiin Bey at the Kennedy Center, 1/2
TVD Live: Yasiin Bey at the Kennedy Center, 1/2: He was arrested in South Africa last January for trying to leave the country with a “world passport.” He had been living in Cape Town since 2013 and had been prevented from leaving with those papers for a U.S. tour in 2014 after a visitor’s permit ... Source: "South Africa" - BingNews South Africa clinch series: Cape Town: … [Read more...] about SA News: TVD Live: Yasiin Bey at the Kennedy Center, 1/2
USAID Expands Farm Service Center Network
USAID Expands Farm Service Center Network: The U.S. Agency for International Development joined the Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources today to award grants to 10 private entrepreneurs and 10 farmers’ cooperative unions that will help them to establish farm service centers. Each recipient will receive a grant … [Read more...] about USAID Expands Farm Service Center Network
African Climate Policy Center and Development Partners Roundtable
African Climate Policy Center and Development Partners Roundtable: Today, 15 December, the Africa Climate Policy center (ACPC) organized a development partners round table. The objective was to present a new strategy that repositions ACPC within the Economic Commission of Africa's (ECA) institutional architecture as a center of reference, responding to new realities and … [Read more...] about African Climate Policy Center and Development Partners Roundtable
