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United Nations field operations remain eager to have young Canadian professionals work with them. With the loss of DFAIT funding and the closing of the old Canada Corps program, there are fewer and fewer funded opportunities for those young Canadians. In response, CANADEM has created the International Career Advancement Program (ICAP). It provides an opportunity for qualified and motivated young professionals (with at least a BA) to fund their own internship in a UN field office. We use CANADEM's extensive network of contacts with UN agencies, the OSCE and others to find positions and make connections.

It isn't as easy as a funded placement, but the track record of previous CANADEM interns is that a very high percentage go directly on to further international contracts or full time employment. (We just completed a survey of our interns going back to 1998. 76% are still employed in international development. A further 13% are now back at school to add to their capacities before continuing to work abroad.)

We would be pleased to have you place a link to this program on your sites if you think that it would be helpful to any of your alumnae - and we in turn would be pleased to put a link on our site to your organization. When we can't help a motivated young person who contacts us, we would be very pleased to help them become aware of what you are doing.

Please contact me for more information if you are interested - or send us the information for a link to you.

Randy Weekes
Director
CANADEM-GPS Internship Programs

CANADEM
1 Sherbrooke St. E.,
Perth, ON K7H 1A1
Tel: 613-264-5504 Fax: 613-789-6125
randy.weekes@canadem.ca
www.canadem.ca/canjeunesse/
"CANADEM's 'global positioning system' to assist young Canadians
to launch their international careers with the UN or other international agencies/NGOs"

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I agree with the author in that communities can become dependent on aid agencies and miss opportunities for self growth, and where if possible aid agencies should try to work with governments and deliver support through them when possible.

You can find the article at:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/state/2007/0412hugoslim.htm

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:00:00 EDT http://SarahEL.tigblog.org/post/191133 43.6666667 -79.416666743.6666667-79.4166667 http://SarahEL.tigblog.org/post/163305 5th Annual Global Health Research Conference
IN COLLABORATION WITH

The Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
PRESENTS

The Convergence of Health and Law: International Perspectives

THE JOHN R. EVANS LECTURESHIP IN GLOBAL HEALTH
Presented by

Rebecca Cook
Chair, International Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law and

Bernard Dickens
Dr. William M. Scholl Professor Emeritus of Health Law and Policy Faculty of Law
cross-appointed Faculty of Medicine and Joint Centre for Bioethics

Introduction by John Evans
Chair, Board of Directors, MaRs Discovery District, University of Toronto

MacLeod Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine
1 King's College Circle, University of Toronto

SPECIAL CONFERENCE OPENING EVENT
Monday, May 7 at 7pm
MacLeod Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

IN DISCUSSION WITH VINCENT LAM
Emergency physician, 2006 Giller Prize winner and
author of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

Moderated by Ed Morgan
Professor, International and Constitutional Law

REGISTRATION FROM uofttix.ca
May 7 at 7pm only Vincent Lam Reception
$20 - Faculty General Admission
$10 - Students May 7 and 8

Vincent Lam event AND Conference Program (May 8) 8am-6pm
$75 - Faculty General Admission
$20 - Students

INFORMATION
j.kopelow@sympatico.ca / 416-946-7962
www.intlhealth.med.utoronto.ca
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I am facilitating an exchange program between a school group in Mexico and an educational facility north-east of Toronto from March 20th to the 28th, 2007. Spanish speaking students with mental and physical disabilities of varing ages and their caregivers are participating.

Would you like to donate any mitts, hats, scarfs, snowpants, jackets or boots?

I am collecting any warm items of clothing. The ages of the participants range from 10 years to 40 years of age. Also, if you or anyone you know would like to volunteer to assist with this educational program, or would like to act as a translator for the group please contact me for more information.

Thanks!]]> Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:16:00 EST http://SarahEL.tigblog.org/post/84795 43.6666667 -79.416666743.6666667-79.4166667 http://SarahEL.tigblog.org/post/82053 activists from a wide range of countries and regions
of the world. It was constituted in 2002 as the International Working
Group on Sexuality and Social Policy (IWGSSP).

They are launching their new website where you can find up-dated
information about their program, activities and main products, as well as
links to other relevant sites that provide analysis and data on sexuality,
policy and politics.

http://www.sxpolitics.org
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If anyone is interested in learning more about volunteering overseas with Médecins Sans Frontières there are two evening information sessions coming up.

The first session is on November 22nd in Windsor, ON. The following is on November 29th in London, ON.

For more information on times and locations regarding information sessions please check out the msf website at: www.msf.ca -and click on events



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