Seven Days in Africa: A Report on the 73rd. IFLA General Conference & Council Durban

IFLA Jerusalem Conference , August 2000

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

President ' s Annual Report to the 67 th IFLA Conference in Boston

worry. When I became President of IFLA, we had around 1450 members (and I would like to remind you that a large association like the ALA which itself has 65,000 members is only one IFLA member), whereas we now have more than 1775 from over 150 countries. Similarly, the best annual conferences welcomed around 2500 participants, while we expect the final figures to be well in excess of 3000. Ther...

Nelson Mandela calls for unity at the XIIIth International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.

for unity at the XIIIth International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa Former South African President Nelson Mandela closed the XIIIth International AIDS Conference in Durban with a call for unity in the fight against the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. He commented: ‘‘We will have to rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save our people. History will judge us harshly if we fail to d...

Oral abstracts of the 21st International AIDS Conference 18–22 July 2016, Durban, South Africa

New South Africa: the Case of Durban

South Africa's apartheid legacy is well known and has been widely researched. The impact ofapartheid was most acute in the urban areas. The present South African city form had been shaped by the early colonial measures to keep the urban areas predominantly for white use and occupation. As the democratic initiatives ofthe 1990s gained momentum various strategies were pursued to reverse the effec...