Dear colleagues and friends,

Please find below the latest edition of our “nEUws”. It heralds several new developments within the EU institutions, upcoming events and calls for proposals.

Contributions, feedback and suggestions are always appreciated!

Best regards,
Katrin

on behalf of Karen Hoehn,
Vice Executive Director

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Katrin Stichtenoth
German Foundation for World Population (DSW)
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Thanks to the DSW Brussels team – Mascha, Matthias, Michael and Julio – for contributing to nEUws!

Latest News:

Calls for Proposals
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EU News: European Commission speaks up on female genital mutilation
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EU News: Young people advocate for Sexuality Education in the South in the European Parliament
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EU News: European Parliament: New HIV/AIDS research findings presented
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Upcoming Events: EU Presidency Seminar on Africa
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Calls for Proposals

The Calls on the following budget lines are usually open for organizations and projects interested in SRHR. For further details on any of these Calls or corrigenda see the EuropeAid website,http://ec.europa.eu/comm/europeaid/cgi/frame12.pl.

Non-State Actors (NSA) and Local Authorities (LA) in Development: To build capacity of NSA and LA in order to strengthen their participation in poverty reduction and sustainable development.
- In Argentina, forecast, budget: € 375,000.
- In Bangladesh, until 19.03.2008, budget: € 6,000,000.
- In Bolivia, until 31.03.2008, budget: € 3,000,000.
- In Belarus, until 16.05.2008, budget: € 1,000,000.
- In Cuba, until 30.04.2008, budget: € 250,000.
- In Kenya, until 17.03.2008, budget: € 3,375,000.
- In Cambodia, forecast
- In Laos, until 06.05.2008, budget: € 2,500,000.
- In Myanmar, until 16.05.2008, budget: € 200,000.
- In Phillippines, until 15.04.2008, budget: € 2,500,000.
- In Sudan, until 17.03.2008, budget: € 3,000,000.
- In Syria, until 13.03.2008, budget: € 150,000.
- In Vietnam, until 10.04.2008, budget: € 1,000,000.

European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) to support civil society organisations where they operate with difficulty and where there is little room for political pluralism.
- In all developing countries, until 10.06.2008, budget: € 11,492,917.


European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights: To assist civil society to develop greater cohesion in working on human rights, political pluralism and democratic political participation and representation.
- In Angola, until 12.05.2008, budget: € 900.000.
- In Azerbaijan, until 04.04.2008, budget: € 873.000.
- In Bangladesh, until 13.03.2008, budget: € 1.200.000.
- In Bolivia, until 24.03.20, budget: € 600,000.
- In Congo (DR), forecast, budget: € 600,000.
- In Cambodia, until 06.05.2008, budget: € 600,000.
- In Laos, until 06.05.2008, budget: € 300,000.
- In Sri Lanka, until 18.03.2008, budget: € 582,000.
- In Mexico, until 01.04.2008, budget: € 600,000.
- In El Salvador, until 31.03.2008, budget: € 600,000.

Investing in People - Youth & Children: To support actions aimed at preventing harm to children affected by armed conflicts and at fighting against child trafficking and rehabilitating victims
- In all countries: until 01.04.2008, budget: € 13,400,000.


If you work in the field of SRHR and need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: info-eu@dsw-hannover.de.

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EU News: European Commission speaks up on female genital mutilation

5 February
Within the framework of this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance against Female Genital Mutilation, European Commissioners Ferrero-Waldner (External Relations) and Michel (Development), spoke up against the practice: “Violating the rights of women or girls can never be justified on grounds of cultural relativism or in the name of tradition”."
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/182&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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EU News: Young people advocate for Sexuality Education in the South in the European Parliament

10-12 February
During a two days training facilitated by DSW and Youact, a group of more than 20 youth and adults received training in order to become more effective reproductive health advocates towards the European Parliament. A hearing entitled “sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people: the need for comprehensive sexuality education in the south” took place the day after. The meeting was chaired by Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg MEP.
http://www.eurongos.org/Default.aspx?ID=3073

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EU News: European Parliament: New HIV/AIDS research findings presented

13 February
Stop AIDS Alliance and the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development organised a hearing in the European Parliament, entitled ‘Horizons’ research findings on HIV/AIDS’. The meeting, kindly hosted by Anne Van Lancker MEP, brought together policy makers, experts and advocates to discuss key findings in: The role of communities in addressing HIV/AIDS; HIV prevention amongst key populations, including sex workers, men who have sex with men, and HIV-positive individuals; Reducing stigma in communities and institutions.
http://www.popcouncil.org/horizons/

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Upcoming Events: EU Presidency Seminar on Africa

27-28 February
The Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA) together with the European Parliament, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Society for International Development (SID) is organising an EU Presidency Seminar on Africa on 27 and 28 February 2008 in the European Parliament in Brussels, entitled: “The Role of New EU Member States in EU-Africa Development Policy”.
http://sideurope.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/the-role-of-new-eu-member-states-in-eu-africa-development-policy/

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