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| 1 Feb | conference Constraints and perspectives for democracy in Mozambique
NiZA organises a conference on constraints and perspectives for democracy in Mozambique. The conference focuses on of the conference is:
Van Kleffenszaal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague ... programme and invitation background of the conference 
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| 13-15 Dec | CPT-AMS Festival - Die Kaap is Hollands December 13, 14 and 15 NiZA, theatergroup Made in da Shade and Bush Radio will organise a three day festival on life in a metropolis. The festival is based on a exchange pf hiphop artists, young theatre makers, radio makers, poets and dj's from Cape Town and Amsterdam. Young people from both cities express their view on items of real life. 13 t/m 15 december: Frascati - Amsterdam | ||
| 22 Nov |
World-wide diamond certificate out of reach .... governments should practice what they preach Fatal Transactions press release The establishment of a world-wide agreement against conflict diamonds is in serious need of some cardiac massage, concludes the Fatal Transaction campaign against conflict diamonds. Ministers of diamond producing and importing countries and the European Commission were supposed to ratify an agreement on certification of diamonds, on November 29 2001 in Gaborone | ||
| 21 Sept | European border checks on trade in conflict diamonds are not carried out properly On Tuesday 25 September, the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), member of the Fatal Transactions Network, in association with MEP Max van den Berg and Oxfam International will organise a meeting of experts called 'EU Control of Diamond Imports from African Countries in Conflict' at the European Parliament in Brussels. | ||
| 23 May | Illegal arms trade and the role of oil and diamond trade May 23, Novib organises a conference on the illegal arms trade and the role of oil and diamond trade in financing it. The conference is organised within the frame work of Fatal Transactions of which Novib is member, and is supported by the European Commission. | ||
| 4 May |
Award for revealing medical scandal in South Africa
South African journalist Lynne Altenroxel (29) from the Johannesburg newspaper The Star received the first John Manyarara award for excellent investigative journalism on World Press Freedom Day (3 May). | ||
| 27 April |
Kimberley process stalled?: Concern at lack of progress towards a conflict diamond certification system Civil society organisations attending the April 25-27 meeting of the Kimberley Process in Brussels are profoundly disappointed and deeply concerned with the lack of progress in efforts to end the trade in conflict diamonds. | ||
| 5 March | Pharmaceutical industry vs South Africa on accessible HIV/AIDS drugs Selection of internet links to news, campaigns etc.
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