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About ICVA Founded in 1962, ICVA (International Council of Voluntary Agencies) is a global network of 130 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in 160 countries, operating at global, regional, national and local levels, whose mission is to make humanitarian action more principled and effective by working collectively and independently to influence policy and practice. Based on its 2019-2021 Strategy, ICVA promotes and facilitates NGO engagement in the development of humanitarian sector, with a focus on Forced Migration, Humanitarian Coordination, Humanitarian Financing, and cross cutti...

 E-Mail April 19, 2021 -- Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine access for refugee and displaced populations, and addressing health inequities, is vital for an effective pandemic response. Yet, vaccine allocation and distribution has been neither equitable nor inclusive, despite that global leaders have stressed this as a critical aspect to globally overcoming the pandemic, according to a paper published by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Read "Leave No-one Behind: Ensuring Access to COVID-19 vaccines for Refugee and Displaced Populations" in the journal Nature Medicine. As of Apri...

The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine has announced the Spring 2021 faculty awards. The Center’s mission includes demonstrating the immediacy and applicability of humanities studies, and it supports programs and projects fostering intellectual curiosity, critical reflection and creative innovation.   Susan Camp, adjunct associate professor of art, received funding for â€Duet,” a collaborative project melding original poetry by Kay Retzlaff, a University of Maine at Augusta professor of English, with photographs of Camp’s ephem...

Prepares, manages and regularly updates the project activities work plan and related financial plan, Ensures timely and quality implementation in compliance with the defined project strategy as well as INTERSOS and donor guidelines. Ensures the integration of activities with other INTERSOS projects, as well as coordinating with other actors intervening in the same area. Prepares periodic project narrative and financial reports as well as other ad hoc reports, according to INTERSOS and donor requirements. Contributes to elaborate trends and situation analysis. Project financial Management and ...

Professor Christof Heyns: A giant in human rights education   01 April 2021 The monumental contribution that Professor Christof Heyns has made to advance human rights in Africa and beyond emerged this week from a memorial Facebook page created to honour the former director of the Centre for Human Rights, which is part of the faculty of law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The 62-year-old Heyns died on 29 March while on a hike near Stellenbosch, South Africa. Heyns was the director of the Centre for Human Rights from 1999 to 2006, the dean of the faculty of law at the University of Pr...