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DAKAR, SENEGALDakar, the capital of Senegal, is the busiest port in West Africa, serving Mali, and Mauritania as well as Senegal. The city grew up around a French fort built in 1857 to protest the merchants and residents of Goree Island. In 1940, Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle fought unsuccessfully to free Dakar from Vichy control. The city was occupied by US forces from 1942 until the end of World War II. Dakar was the capital of the short-lived Mali Federation from 1959-60. The University of Dakar, the national School of Administration, a school for librarians, and a U.N.-administered institute of economic development and planning are located in the city. It is also the home of famous Institut fondamental d’Afrique noire, which promotes scholarly research in many fields. The city hosts many conferences on artistic and scholarly topics. |
2/15/2008
Venues of the IAPMC in 2008In 2008 two key events for us, members of the IAPMC, are the Executive Board meeting which will be in Suwon, S. Korea from 23-27 April 2008. The second important event is, of course, our annual General Assembly which will be kindly hosted by the city of Sochi, Russian Federation, from 13-16 November 2008. The topic of the General Assembly will be ‘The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Struggle for Peace’.
12/31/2007
60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human RightsThe International Association of Peace Messenger Cities has undertaken a campaign to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It will be culminated at our General Assembly in Sochi, Russia on November 13, 2008 under the theme” The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Struggle for Peace!”
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