Global Citizenship Initiative

04/17/2013

Are you a Canadian student who wants to gain Indian experience? Check out SICI's International Youth Internship Program for Canadian post-secondary graduates, undergraduates and graduates to live and work in India with four development organizations for six months. Application Deadline: April 30.

Are you a Canadian student who wants to gain Indian experience? Check out SICI's International Youth Internship Program for Canadian post-secondary graduates, undergraduates and graduates to live and work in India with four development organizations for six months. Application Deadline: April 30. For details and to apply, visit: http://bit.ly/ZzHHxX

04/17/2013

Feeling inspired as the semester winds down? Check out the United Nations Careers websites. Lots of great available! http://j.mp/rkAQ26

Thank you to all the interns -- past and present -- who have worked alongside UN staff around the world.

Find out about the United Nations Careers internship programme here: http://j.mp/rkAQ26

Picture here: This week Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with interns currently working at UN Headquarters in New York City.

04/16/2013

Today is World Day. The best way to help reduce poverty in developing countries is to give people the tools to help themselves.

Today is World Entrepreneurship Day. The best way to help reduce poverty in developing countries is to give people the tools to help themselves.

04/15/2013

The booming economic juggernaut in Brazil has transformed lives. It has also acted as a beacon attracting migrants from all over the world, including the former Portuguese colony of Angola. Expecting to find a vast multicultural embrace, Angolan immigrant Badharo instead finds barriers and even racism in Rio - this is his story.

Brazil's booming economy brings many African migrants to its shores, but once there does the dream of a better life die?

04/09/2013

April 5th marks the 1,000-day milestone until the 2015 target date to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a development framework to improve lives worldwide. Acommunity of individuals, organizations, and institutions will come together to celebrate successes to date, reinvigorate discussion on the MDGs themselves, and begin to advance a post-2015 development framework that builds on .
To Join the community and be a part of the 1,000-minute worldwide social media rally visit: http://momentum1000.org/

HomeWhat is Momentum1000?April 5th, 2013 marked the 1,000-day milestone until the 2015 target date to achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a development framework to improve lives worldwide. On that day, a community of individuals, organizations, and institutions celebrated successe...

04/02/2013

The United Nations voted to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty with a vote of 154 YES, 3 no and 23 abstain.

BREAKING NEWS: We did it! The UN voted to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty with a vote of 154 YES, 3 no and 23 abstain! Canada voted YES!

04/02/2013

Think its time for a reinvented condom? So does the &melindagatesfoundation

04/01/2013

Watch UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's video message for 1,000 Days to the Deadline of the Millennium Development Goals.

United Nations, New York - UN Secretary-General video message for 1,000 Days to the Deadline of the Millennium Development Goals.

03/27/2013

Lots of opinion pieces this week about the merging of CIDA with DFAIT, including from the minister himself, Julian Fantino. Check out thelinks on the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation's website!

CIDA being folded into DFAIT: The Canadian Council for International Co-operation concerned about CIDA’s mandate being watered down. (CCIC News...

03/25/2013

Conservation Corps Newfoundland and Labrador is hiring for their summer Green Teams! Deadline for applications is Friday April 5th, 2013.

http://www.ccnl.ca/what-s-available/

Conservation Corps Newfoundland and Labrador is currently seeking individuals for the following Senior Green Team Program Positions - Regional Supervisors (up to six positions) and Communications and Education Officer.

03/25/2013

Another great employment opportunity in Canada!

03/25/2013

Great international development available! Apply by April 14!

ACIC works with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and our members, to facilitate and implement International Aboriginal Youth Internships (IAYI), and International Youth Internships (IYI). These positions along with other non-ACIC internships can be found below.