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Important changes to Registrant Portal

As you may know, we are always striving to increase the marketability and appeal of our registrants.

As part of this effort, we have introduced two major changes to our online registrant portal: you can now update your own professional summary and elections profile.

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Learn more about how to write professional summaries and electoral profiles.

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A Professional Summary is a short paragraph that provides a snapshot of your work experience. We use them to help our clients get a quick overview of the registrants whose applications we forward. We also search within them for keywords when we do candidat searches.

Electoral Profiles provide a brief overview of your work in international or domestic elections (ie. as an election observer, polling clerk, etc.). This is the first time we're using them and are sure that they will enhance our ability to search for qualified election observers

CANADEM/Fournier: Family Tracking in Haiti

CANADEM Child Protection Expert Benoit Fournier was deployed to assist UNICEF's emergency response efforts in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck near the Capital city of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, last January 2010. His secondment was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

The below article was written by Benoit's colleague, Line Wolf Nielsen, from SOS Children's Villages International

Finding the family

7-year old Daniel* sits on a wooden chair in the shade of a large mango tree and quietly tries to answer the many questions that two adults in front of him keep asking. "What is the name of your mother? Do you live with her? Do you know where she is now? What about your father? Are any other people living with you?"


	Co-workers from SOS Children's Villages and UNICEF are questioning a child about its family. Photo: Line Wolf Nielsen

Not far from the mango tree, another session takes place with a 9-year old girl.

A long list of questions needs to be addressed and the SOS social workers dutifully note down everything the children say.

"When you talk with children it's important that they trust you. They have been left by adults before, and might not find it easy to trust you. You have to be present and know how to communicate both verbal and non-verbal. Remember, every little detail is crucial," the SOS social workers have been told by Benoit Fournier.

CANADEM TA Counsels Afghan Ministry of Justice on Gender & Human Rights

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Ottawa, June 24, 2010

Ottawa Native Counsels the Afghan Ministry of Justice on Gender and Human Rights

CANADEM Technical Advisor Ms Fouz Abdel Hadi has been working with the Afghan Ministry of Justice as a Technical Advisor since February 2009. She trains and assists the Legislative Drafting Unit in integrating modern information technology and mainstreaming human rights concepts in drafting Bills and Legislation. She has also contributed to a series of conferences on Gender Justice in Afghanistan in order to raise awareness on women and men’s human rights in the context of Islam, and to show that these are consistent with international human rights law.

Ms. Abdel Hadi has extensive work experience related to legislative drafting in the Middle East, specifically in Palestine and Afghanistan. She has two Master’s degrees in law. Her LLM thesis, nominated for a prize at the University of Ottawa, provided an Islamic legislative drafting methodology to improve women’s human rights in the Islamic-based family law.