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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, January 23-29

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Kevin examines the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs' use of new media to empower youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan. In case you missed it, here's what we've had to say over the past week. From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009.

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Post-conflict Reconstruction: Disarmament, Reconciliation, and Blogging?

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Reaching out to youths in Armenia and Azerbaijan, DOTCOM. Global Voices blogged yesterday about a project funded by the State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, DOTCOM , and its recent progress.

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Africa Mentoring Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea for the project came from Nigerian blogger Ore Somolu who is presently working with a group of young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on the Young Caucacus Women Project. Initially there will be a pilot project limited to Nigerian women.

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I'm a mentor for the Young Caucasus Women's Project!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm mentor for a blog project for young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia entitled YoungCaucasusWomen. Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.

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Mentoring Young Women Bloggers

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They are looking for bloggers from around the world to be blogging mentors for 1 week as part of the Young Caucasus Women project, a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). If you are interested, here is the original post from www.registan.net.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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Here is the route for the relay so far: Darfur - August 9 ( press release ; photos ; video ) Kigali, Rwanda - August 15 ( press release ; photos ; press conference ) Yerevan, Armenia - September 25 ( press release ; photos; press conference ) Berlin, Germany - November 29 Sarajevo, Bosnia - December 6-7 Phnom Penh, Cambodia - January 18-20, 2008 People's (..)

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