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2013
April
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International Conference on Sustainable Development
-The Conference theme is "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education"
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Talk on "Intervention by the International Community: If Libya, Why Not Syria?"
-Professor Forster's talk will be followed by a discussion with the audience. All welcome.
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Book launch with the author of "The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition"
-The Rights, Humanitarianism and International Development Network and Social-Anthropology Subject Area kindly invite you to attend a book launch with the author.
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The Reykjavik Congress on Human Rights
-The international community acknowledges the increasing and persistent cases of mass atrocities and crimes against humanity occurring on a vast scale. Understanding the complexity in bringing these crimes to an end the Reykjavik Congress on Human Rights aims to argue and debate the notion of the responsibility to protect from...
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World Health Day
The theme for 2013 is ''high blood pressure''. High blood pressure ,which is also known as raised blood pressure or hypertension, increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. If left uncontrolled, high blood pressure can also cause blindness, irregularities of the heartbeat and heart failure. The risk...
March
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IDC Oral Evidence Session: Global Food Security
-This is the second evidence session for the Committee's inquiry on Global Food Security. With the G8 event on malnutrition fast approaching, and the NGO campaign on hunger also ongoing, this session is an opportunity for the Committee to explore some of the broader strategic issues relating to food security,...
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Nigeria Research seminar group
-The CSID Nigeria Research Group welcomes a distinuished delegation fromthe Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria to present their current research. All most welcome.
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Scottish African International Business Conference and Exhibition
-The theme for this year's conference - "Towards a Sustainable Africa: The Changing Perspective of the African Business Environment" is a reflection of the evolving market trend in Africa, and how the world's perspective of Africa must evolve too. The conference will accept 7 students from the University of Aberdeen...
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World Tuberculosis Day
World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries.
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World Water Day
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United...