http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org Commonwealth People's Forum Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:10:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thank you for reading and participating in the People's Forum blog. It has been enormously valuable to receive your contributions. Being a time limited project, this blog is closing for new content but will remain open as an archive. http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/12/05/peoples-forum-blog-now-closed/ For those who didn't have an opportunity to make it to the event itself, here's a short video depicting what it looked like on the ground. Click here if you can't see the video below. http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/28/the-peoples-space-in-video/ By Anke Weisheit (Guest blogger) Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America use traditional medicine (TM) to help meet some of their primary health care needs. In Africa, up to 80% of the population uses traditional medicine for primary health care. In industrialized countries, adaptations of traditional medicine are termed “Complimentary“ ... http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/24/back-to-the-roots-integration-of-traditional-and-complimentary-medicine-as-a-way-to-strengthen-existing-health-systems-in-the-commonwealth/ By Naomi Kabarungi The People’s Space at Commonwealth People’s Forum has been a hive of activity since Monday. I followed the moments with a camera: The bloggers get set to go out Uganda’s VP Prof Bukenya is fascinated by the people’s blog Workshops holding discussion groups Exciting performances at the Speakers Space stage http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/24/the-peoples-space-a-week-in-pictures/ By Joel Besekezi Does the above saying look familiar? Well this was the case for some of the guests that came to the people’s space at Hotel Africana. Prince Charles was touring the space and apparently for security reasons, those who came after the Prince’s entry were not allowed in. This however ... http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/23/late-comers-eat-bones/ By Naomi Kabarungi There was a hullabaloo at the People’s Space early this afternoon when the gay community and the rest of the people confronted each other, when anti-gay activist Dr. Martin Sempa released a press statement protesting the recommendations of the Commonwealth People’s Forum to legalise homosexuality in all the ... http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/23/commonwealth-peoples-forum-recommendations-to-chogm-cause-controversy/ By Emmanuel Gyezaho, Charles Odongtho and Naomi Kabarungi Prince Charles has today launched a fund to help youths engage in income generating activities. He named the fund the Uganda Youth Business Fund. Prince Charles launched the fund during his visit to the People’s Space at Hotel Africana in Kampala. He expressed delight ... http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/23/prince-charles-launches-finance-fund-for-ugandan-youths/ By Charles Odongtho The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda says they want the 53 member states of the Commonwealth to help them arrest and bring to justice 14 fugitives who are hiding in various countries, several of them Commonwealth members. The Spokesperson for the tribunal, Roland Amoussouga named neighbouring Kenya as one ... http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/23/rwanda-seeks-genocide-suspects/ By The Editor Charles Odongtho, one of the blogger team, managed to take some time out with Terry Waite for a short interview. Click here if you can't see the video below: http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/23/in-conversation-with-humanitarian-terry-waite/ By The Editor Martin Davidson, current CEO, British Council dropped by the Media Space yesterday to see what's been going on. One of the blog team, Naomi Karabungi managed to corner him and ask a few questions about British Council's involvement in Africa and the event. Click here if you ... http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/2007/11/23/in-conversation-with-british-council-chief-executive-officer/