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The Fordham Urban Law Center, in conjunction with the University of Cape Town (UCT), is pleased to announce a call for participation in the 4th Annual International and Comparative Urban Law Conference, to be held on Monday July 17th and Tuesday July 18th, 2017. The Conference will be held at UCT in Cape Town, South Africa. The Conference will provide a dynamic forum for legal and other scholars to engage and generate diverse international, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives in the burgeoning field of urban law. The Conference will explore overlapping themes, tensions, and opportunities for deeper scholarly investigation and practice with a comparative perspective. The Conference is open to urban law topics across a broad spectrum, such as: Structure and workings of local authority and autonomy;Urban and metropolitan governance and finance; Economic and community development; Housing and the built environment; Unique challenges facing cities in developing nations and the Global South; Urban public health; Migration and citizenship; Urban equity and inclusion; Sustainability and resilience. While the Conference will foster a broad dialogue about cities and legal systems in comparative and international perspective, we specifically invite submissions to focus on the role of law in New Urban Agenda adopted this past October by the United Nations at the Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador. In keeping with this framework, the conference seeks to investigate the role of laws in promoting the New Urban Agenda in a manner that is democratic, sustainable and equitable.

The South African Health Review’s Emerging Public Health Practitioner Award (EPHPA) is open to young public health practitioners or student researchers in the fields health sciences, medicine or public health who are currently studying for their Masters or Honours degree, or are in the final year of their Bachelor’s degree. Individuals seeking to publish a paper dealing with public health policy development or implementation in a respected and widely read South African peer-reviewed journal are encouraged to apply. The South African Health Review’s Emerging Public Health Practitioner Award is offered to South African citizens or permanent residents who are under the age of 35 on 28 February 2017. The applicant must be first author on the paper. Any other authors may only be cited in a supervisory capacity. To apply, submit a complete chapter along with a copy of your ID and EPHPA Entry form.

Doctors without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation committed to two objectives: providing medical assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, natural and man-made disasters; and speaking out about the plight of the populations assisted. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. The learning activities of MSF's Southern African Medical Unit (SAMU) have substantially increased in the past 3 years as the demand for learning opportunities as increased in the many projects that SAMU supports. These activities in turn support the requirements of staff that they contribute to achieving operational objectives of MSF mission/projects. The MSF SAMU learning unit’s purpose is to ensure that MSF field projects, HQs and all MSF partners have access to quality learning opportunities in HIV/TB, both programmatically and clinically. Although learning opportunities are often seen as the provision of trainings, they also include managing and making available a range of medical resources such as guidelines, reports, toolkits and journal articles. One of the most important media for this is the SAMU website. The post requires a candidate with a tertiary qualification, a Diploma in Public Relations, Office Management or similar, 5 Years work experience with two years in similar post and experience in organisation and/or coordination of meetings and trainings.

Urgent Action Fund-Africa (UAF-Africa), is a consciously feminist and women’s human rights pan- African Fund, registered in Nairobi, Kenya. UAF-Africa seeks a Partnerships & Development Manager who will translate UAF-Africa’s strategic plans into effective social justice initiatives and results. Guided by feminist principles and values, the Fund advocates for women’s equality, not only as a matter of human rights, but also as a fundamental prerequisite for social change, global security, and sustainable peace. In addition to her core business of Rapid Response Grant making, UAF-Africa also runs alliance building and advocacy initiatives in collaboration with other social justice organisations.