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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
06 March 2016
Each year on 8 March special attention is paid to the position of women worldwide. This year’s UN theme for International Women's Day is directly related to the Sustainable Development Goals. Gender equality is an important factor in all of these targets. It is also an important issue for the African Union, that recently declared 2016 the ‘African Year of Human Rights, with a particular focus on the Rights of Women’. In this context, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier containing titles from the catalogue published after 2011, and paying attention to all the themes represented in the Sustainable Development Goals. Read the new web dossier.
04 March 2016
CNV Internationaal, the international department of the Dutch trade union CNV, has commissioned the ASCL to conduct explorative studies in five countries: Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Mali. The major aim of these studies is to make an inventory and assessment of the roles, strengths and weaknesses of civil society actors, including trade unions, when it comes to labour issues such as youth employability, decent work, gender and social dialogue. The collaborative research group ‘Trade Unions and Labour Issues in Africa’ will conduct the study.
04 March 2016
Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk have been awarded subsidy by NWO-WOTRO for their new research project 'The Fulani in the Sahel: Caught between the Hammer of Muslim Extremism and the Anvil of the State (Mali, Nigeria)'. The project will focus on the political dynamics in the Sahel and the appearance of nomadic pastoralist movements in the context of increasing political instability in the Sahara-Sahel zone: West Africa. More in particular: the increasing participation of the Fulani in political movements and agitation. Find out more about the project.
04 March 2016
Female Genital Mutilation is considered a form of Violence Against Women and a human rights violation. A growing number of states where FGM is prevalent have signed and ratified the relevant human rights treaties. Yet the prevalence rates remain high in many of the countries where FGM occurs. During the seminar on 24 March, Annemarie Middelburg will raise the question to what extent and why states comply or not with the human rights framework. She takes Senegal as a case study.
04 March 2016
In February, Mohamed Saadouni ( Leiden University Libraries), Elvire Eijkman and Heleen Smits (both ASCL Library) went on an acquistion trip to Morocco. They visited the 22nd Salon International de l’Edition et du Livre in Casablanca. It was a joint mission with the support of the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat. Mohamed concentrated on publications in Arabic, Elvire and Heleen focused on French and English. Over 400 books were bought. Heleen Smits reports.
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03 March 2016
In the autumn of 1912 21-year-old Henrik Stiernspetz embarks on a journey to Africa to seek his fortune. He does not fit in Stockholm’s bourgeois society and dreams of adventure. After the outbreak of the First World War and a failed business in Cape Town, Henrik travels to Kasempa in Northern Rhodesia where he opens a trading post. Around Christmas 1927, all correspondence to his family ceases. In February 1929, his mother is informed that her son has died. Henrik's family never discovered what happened to him. A century later, Elise Killander, journalist, cultural scientist and a distant relative, decides to find out why her great-grand uncle never came back. 'The last letter from Kasempa' is the subject of our latest Library Highlight.
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