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Please distribute far and wide across your networks! APPLICATIONS INVITED Deadline: 7 March 2010 We have received a good number of applications. However, women represented only 1/3 of the total number. More applications especially from women and young health activists are most welcomed . The International People's Health University ( IPHU ) of the People's Health Movement ( PHM ) and The Great Lakes University of Kisumu ( GLUK ) are pleased to announce THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH a 10 day short course for health activists scheduled in Kisumu, Kenya 19-28 April, 2010 In association with The 7th TICH annual scientific conference Innovations towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (29 April – 2 May, 2010) The course will be conducted in English A limited number of scholarships for travel and accommodation will be available for qualified applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya Further details at: http://www.phmovement.org/ iphu/en/kis

Please distribute far and wide across your networks! The International People's Health University (IPHU) of the People's Health Movement (PHM) and The Great Lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK) are pleased to announce THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH, a 10 day short course for health activists scheduled in Kisumu, Kenya 19-28 April, 2010  In association with The 7th TICH annual scientific Conference 'Innovations towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals' (29 April – 2 May, 2010) The course will be conducted in English A limited number of scholarships for travel and accommodation will be available for qualified applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya APPLICATIONS INVITED Application deadline: 7 March 2010 For further details go to: www.phmovement.org/iphu/en/kisumu/announce Encourage young health activists to apply now! Online application form at: http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/en/kisumu/application

Food for a mainstreet thought Human Rights Reader 233 LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: CONNECTING THE IVORY TOWER TO MAINSTREET. (C. L. Schur) We may be intelligent, but do we have the experience? If we do, it depends whether we learn-from and apply our experience! (F. Stern) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (Santayana) 1. When really committed to human rights (HR), civil society organizations and individuals in academia have to use their (new) power with intelligence and not overvalue any theory that promotes a sense of ‘universal responsibility’ based on the false pretense that it is primarily the intelligentsia who has to bring order to a world in disarray --no matter at what cost--“or we won’t be able to live in peace with ourselves”. Such theories do not only lead to potentially infinite disconnected interventions; they intoxicate our minds with the illusion that it is we who have the leading role in the ultimate crusade in favor of what is ju