ILO Global Media Competition 2020 on Labour Migration and Fair Recruitment (Fully Funded Fellowship to ITC-Turin in Italy and $1,000+ cash Prize )

This is especially for you! 

Application Deadline: 31 October 2020 

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching its sixth annual Global Media Competition to recognize exemplary media coverage on labour migration and fair recruitment.

The competition aims to promote quality reporting on labour migration issues. It will give awards to two published media pieces. For the first time it will also give prizes for two ‘synopses’ of stories to be developed on labour migration or fair recruitment.

Prize
The competition will award three prizes for professional journalists or media experts on the topic of labour migration and/or fair recruitment of migrant workers: two prizes will be awarded for a published media piece and one prize will be awarded for a synopsis.

The winners will be able to choose between cash (US$1,200 in the published media piece and US$500 for the synopsis category) or a paid fellowship to participate in course in 2021 on a fair recruitment or labour migration at the ILO’s International Training Centre 

The competition will also award one prize to a student journalist for a synopsis on the topic of labour migration and/or fair recruitment of migrant workers.

Click Here to apply: https://bit.ly/2RB8MWu

Deadline Extended: African Union Innovating Education in Africa Expo 2020 (cash grants up to 100,000 USD)

Don't miss this opportunity, apply now!

Application Deadline: October 9th 2020 

The advent of COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education system and reinforces the need for fit for context, innovative and scalable solutions in education. DOTSS provides an approach for reorienting Africa’s education and training systems to meet the knowledge, competencies, skills, innovation and creativity required to nurture African core values and promote sustainable development at the national, sub-regional and continental levels as espoused in CESA.

There is the need to promote innovation in the entire education and skills development ecosystems, taking advantage of the digital revolution, in order to increase its impact and also ensure that disadvantaged groups are not left out. As the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16-25) states, ICT is an essential tool for ensuring universal access, quality of provision, and empowerment of school graduates for meaningful personal lives, and contribution to social economic development.

Benefits

Receive cash grants up to 100,000 USD.

Innovation promoted to policy makers, investors, and practitioners during the Virtual Exhibition Day.

Participate in entrepreneurship training, business incubation and acceleration program towards strengthening business model and scaling up of innovations.
Innovation published in the Africa Education Innovations Handbook 2020.
Certificate of Recognition from the African Union Commission.

Click Here to apply: https://bit.ly/32EgPrH

Meghan Markle On Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death: ‘Honor Her, Remember Her, Act For Her’

As millions around the globe mourned the death of “hero” Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Meghan Markle remembered the Supreme Court associate justice Saturday as a “true inspiration.” 

“With an incomparable and indelible legacy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will forever be known as a woman of brilliance, a Justice of courage, and a human of deep conviction,” the Duchess of Sussex said in a statement shared with HuffPost. 

“She has been a true inspiration to me since I was a girl,” the duchess added. “Honor her, remember her, act for her.”

Ginsburg died Friday surrounded by her family in Washington after decades of being treated for cancer, the Supreme Court said. She was 87. 

The liberal icon, who was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, was just the second woman to sit on the nation’s highest court and the first Jewish woman to do so.

In a statement, Chief Justice John Roberts mourned the nation’s loss of “a justice of historic stature.”

“We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague,” he said Friday. “Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice.” 

In the days before her death, Ginsburg told her granddaughter that her “most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” according to NPR.   

President Donald Trump said that he wished to nominate Ginsburg’s replacement “without delay.”

“We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “We have this obligation, without delay!”  

Following Ginsburg’s death, there are now five  conservative judges, all appointed by Republicans, and three liberal judges, all appointed by Democrats. 

Covid-19: Angola reports 53 new infections, two recoveries

Luanda - The health authorities announced that 53 new infections and two recovered in the last 24 hours have been registered.

According to the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda, who was speaking at the usual update session, these were three cases registered in Lobito municipality, Benguela province, two in Cabinda and 48 in Luanda.

Of the new patients, Mufinda said, whose ages range from 2 to 86, 28 are male and 25 female.

The recovered patients are all from Luanda province.

With these data, Luanda province has a cumulative of 3,567 positive cases and 139 deaths, Benguela 44 positive and three deaths, and Cabinda with 84 positive cases.