https://www.instagram.com/p/CSUXbuBsOpz/ . Swelia Da Silva Antonio is an Afro-Dutch beauty queen. Here are 10 more things about her: She hails from The Hague, Netherlands. She earned her bachelor's degree in nonprofit, public and organizational management from The Hague University of Applied Sciences. She and her family are originally from Angola. In 1999, she and her family moved…
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Activists and NGOs imagine what Afghanistan will be like after September 11, when the last US soldiers leave the country
Raziya Masumi lived in Iran until the age of 13. When she and her family returned to Afghanistan in 2002, they found what she describes as a “nightmare.” There was no potable water and no electricity, and women were forbidden to go to school or to be independent. She could not have imagined then that she eventually would study law and serve as a lawyer with the country’s human rights commission, where she dealt with cases of violence against women.
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Cyber crime victims in the Netherlands not reporting offences
Dutch victims of online crime rarely report it to the police and when they do, they are often dissatisfied
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Only one in seven victims of cyber crime in the Netherlands reports it to the police, according to research which also revealed dissatisfaction among those that do report such incidents.
The research was conducted by The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Dutch cyber security centre the NCSC and Erasmus University on behalf of the Police and Science research programme.
Cyber attacks on IT systems, such as malware, ransomware, hacking and distributed denial of service (DDoS), in particular, are rarely reported, the research showed.
iKUDU one year on - Transforming curricula through internalisation and virtual exchanges 14th Dec 2020 | Source: ufs.ac.za
“There is an urgency to rethink internationalisation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have to ensure that all students can participate in internationalisation and prepare them for a world in which they have to navigate unknown spaces”. This challenge was posed by the Vice-Rector Research and Internationalisation of the University of the Free State (UFS), Professor Corli Witthuhn, to the iKudu project’s first webinar, which took place in two iterations in November 2020. Dr Lavern Samuels, the Director of International Education and Partnerships at Durban University of Technology, South Africa and Chair of the Director’s Forum of the International Education Association of South Africa responded that “a coalition of the committed is required, bringing new voices to the table with respect for diversity and plurality, taking interdisci