The application deadline for the current round of IHEU-HIVOS grants is approaching. The closing date is 30 September 2008. Full details of the grants and how to apply are available here.

Lamarck, Darwin, Wallace, Huxley, Haeckel,... Great names of science whose pioneering theories on the evolution of species and natural selection boosted a revolution in the 19th century Victorian science, since they suggested a common ancestor for man and apes, against the biblical conception of one Creation. Ernst Haeckel postulated the existence of an ape-man, Pithecanthropus, who would have inhabited a sunken continent called Lemuria, close to India.

IHEU is pleased to report on recent, very encouraging discussions with HIVOS as regards future cooperation in the light of IHEU’s new plans for Growth and Development.

Ganga Prasad Subedi

In 2003, IHEU supported a Dalit Empowerment project implemented by the Humanist Association of Nepal (HUMAN). Ganga Prasad Subedi, the project's coordinator writes about the work carried out.