The Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies (IGWS) at the American University in Cairo is soliciting articles for the forthcoming issue of our publication Surfacing. IGWS is interested in receiving work that revolves around the inter-relationships between "Activism, Gender and Visual Strategies in the ‘Global South". Deadline for submissions: October 7, 2010.
Thomson Reuters Foundation is the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia news agency which is internationally respected for its fast, accurate and impartial reporting. Thomson Reuters Foundation has shared these reporting skills for more than two decades by providing training for journalists in a wide range of specialised reporting fields, including international news coverage, writing business news, working in conflict zones, and writing about environmental issues. Deadline for applications: October 18, 2010.
This is a statement from the International Indigenous Women's Forum on the MDGs callling on leaders to take specific stepsduring the MDG Review Summit in September to address the vast inequality and social inclusion faced by indigenous peoples, and indigenous women in particular.
In the framework of the fund « Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity », France Coopération Internationale (FCI) launches a call for proposals in order to finance projects a) aiming at the fight against repressive legislations and/or the penalization of relationships between people of the same sex or b) Aiming at the fight for the freedom of speech and association on these themes. Deadline for proposals: October 29, 2010.
Indigenous peoples’ organizations, associations and NGOs, academic and other nonprofit organizations and national committees for the Second International Decade can apply for the Trust Fund’s Small Grants Programme 2011. Projects can be proposed in the areas of culture, education, health, human rights, the environment and social and economic development. All projects should primarily be focused upon indigenous peoples and they should directly benefit them. Deadline for applications: October 1, 2010.
