Full Coverage: Development

31.05.2004 Si celebra oggi, 31 maggio, la "Giornata mondiale senza tabacco" promossa dall'Organizzazione mondiale della sanità che quest'anno ha come tema "Tabacco e povertà". Il tabacco uccide ogni anno 4,9 milioni di persone (una ogni 7 secondi), la maggior parte nei Paesi poveri, dove le multinazionali del fumo stanno incrementando le strategie di mercato e si presentano come "aziende ad alta responsabilità sociale". Per la Giornata, numerose le iniziative in Italia dove la Lega Italiana per la la Lotta contro i Tumori (LILT) ha realizzato il Dossier "Il fumo nel mondo del cinema e della moda" per denunciare la persuasione occulta messa in campo dalle multinazionali del tabacco tramite il mondo dello spettacolo.

30.05.2004 O Seminário Nacional de lançamento da 4a. Semana Social Brasileira identificou alguns temas que merecem atenção especial. Eles têm muitas implicações na realidade atual. E apresentam de imediato um desafio para o mutirão por um novo Brasil, que a Semana quer incentivar.

28.05.2004 The MSTS’ actions have brought the housing issue to the center stage in Salvador, and the parties are anxious to please with municipal elections coming up at the end of the year. Violent evictions by police, common in the early stages of the movement, have been replaced with a policy of negotiation.

27.05.2004 Join Friends of the Earth in lobbying to ensure that US companies disclose basic information about their operations overseas. Lack of disclosure has allowed some U.S. companies to conceal irresponsible or disgraceful behavior, such as treating workers poorly, harming the environment and collaborating with oppressive governments that violate human rights.

26.05.2004 Amidst popular images of India's rapid growth and rising middle class, Devinder Sharma points out that one third of the world's hungry people live in India. Boasting of luxury car imports and foodgrain exports is inappropriate.

26.05.2004 Farm expropriation is one possible approach to land reform for the Namibian government, but vague and contradictory statements are creating negative sentiment. The government has a host of other options, according to a report by Windhoek’s Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

26.05.2004 Les 28 et 29 mai 2004, le Centre historique de la ville de Guadalajara, Mexique, sera transformé en zone rouge sécuritaire, afin de protéger ceux qui planifient l’exploitation et le saccage des ressources de l’Amérique latine, comme ils le font depuis plus de 500 ans.

25.05.2004 The next debate on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) took place last Friday (May 21) in the NANSEN dialogue Center in Mostar. Organizers were the Alumni Association of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (ACIPS) in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This was the third in the series of University Workshop after the events which took place at the Univesrities of Sarajevo and Banjaluka last year.

25.05.2004 Villagers opposed to the construction of a big dam in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are on an indefinite hunger strike to protest what they describe as their illegal confinement after a demonstration last week.

25.05.2004 Since the early days of World War II, the U.S. Navy had used Puerto Rico’s offshore island municipality of Vieques as target practice. A year after US Navy’s exit, Vieques tourism is booming.

24.05.2004 Children are no longer just recipients of development projects but participants. Plan International UK has been involving children in the development process and promoting their rights since the mid 1990s. Learn more about the programmes they have set up.

21.05.2004 Development organisations, led by OneWorld South Asia, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and NASSCOM Foundation have formed a National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs, which will seek to take knowledge-led services to every village in India by 2007.

21.05.2004 Development organisations, led by OneWorld South Asia, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and NASSCOM Foundation have formed a National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs, which will seek to take knowledge-led services to every village in India by 2007.

20.05.2004 Maggie Black wrote the report Opening Minds, Opening Up Opportunities for the International Save the Children Alliance. Here she reflects on the empowering impact of children's participation in action for working children.

18.05.2004 As negociações para a conclusão de um acordo de associação inter-regional entre Mercosul e União Européia encontram-se em um momento crucial de definição de compromissos de ambas partes, relacionados à abertura do setor agrícola europeu e a inclusão ou não de certos setores que são fundamentais para as economias e as sociedades dos países do Mercosul.
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18.05.2004 The Development Studies Association is seeking papers focusing on epistemology and methodology for a collaborative meeting to be held in December 2004 of four of its study groups: the Poverty group, the Economics group, the Development Ethics and Research Students study groups.

17.05.2004 Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

12.05.2004 Multilateral donors have warned Bangladesh they may slash aid or withdraw it from the impoverished nation if it fails to fulfill commitments to control crime and corruption and promote good governance.

11.05.2004 Un million de familles sans-terre vivant dans la misère, tandis qu’un pour cent de grands propriétaires terriens contrôlent 50% de la terre, se voient arracher une réforme agraire promise depuis des lustres; des dizaines de milliers de travailleurs et de travailleuses forcés à descendre dans la rue pour combattre une loi inique s’attaquant aux retraites des employés du secteur public...

11.05.2004 In the early 1990s the IMF–World Bank supported one of the world’s most radical trade-liberalisation programmes. It was implemented under the government of Alberto Fujimori through a ‘shock therapy’ programme. Peru emerged, according to the IMF’s classification, as one of the world’s most open economies. The design of the reforms, which was heavily influenced by powerful agri-business interests, contributed to widening inequalities in the rural sector, compounding poverty in the process.