Full Coverage: Development

28.02.2007 "nos comprometemos a construir nuestro movimiento colectivo para la soberanía alimentaria, forjando alianzas, apoyando nuestras diferentes luchas y haciendo que nuestra solidaridad, fuerza y creatividad lleguen a los pueblos de todo el mundo que tienen un compromiso con la soberanía alimentaria. Cada lucha por la soberanía alimentaria, independientemente de en qué lugar del mundo se libre, es nuestra lucha"

28.02.2007 Han pasado trece años desde que México firmó, con Estados Unidos y Canadá, un tratado de libre comercio, que se anunció entonces como la puerta por la que los mexicanos entrarían al mundo desarrollado.

28.02.2007 So poddrska na fondacijata Braka Rokefeler, proektot Muabet na Institutot za internacionalni studii Vatson organizira otvoren natprevar na esei, so cel da ja potcrta vaznosta na lokalno-zasnovanite gledista na megjunarodnite napori za izgradba na demokratijata vo poranesna Jugoslavija.

27.02.2007 L'abbigliamento equosolidale è diventato il nuovo campo di battaglia ecologico per i principali rivenditori britannici, al punto che la domanda di cotone etico certificato è raddoppiata negli ultimi sei mesi. Il marchio, che paga di più i contadini, sta ora cercando di tenere il passo con le richieste che arrivano da aziende e rivenditori di marca come Marks & Spencer, Next, J Sainsbury e Debenhams. Il numero di produttori di cotone che ha beneficiato del marchio Fairtrade è cresciuto nell'ultimo anno di un 30%, ma la domanda probabilmente arriverà a superare l'offerta. Solo Mark & Spencer richiederà oltre un terzo dell'attuale produzione per rispettare l'impegno di essere il maggior rivenditore inglese. Alla vigilia delle due settimane sul commercio equo, Tamara James, business development officer della Fairtrade Foundation, dichiara che "L'aumento d'interesse del mercato inglese significa che dovremo certificare più contadini".

24.02.2007 Five years after the Sri Lankan government signed a Norway-brokered ceasefire agreement (CFA) with Tamil separatist rebels, all actors are now agreed that the document now remains solely on paper.

23.02.2007 Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development (DFID) Suma Chakrabarti tells The Financial Express in an interview that a political consensus is building on in the UK over committing its Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment of 0.7% of its GNP. Read on for more.

23.02.2007 Konsorciumi “Telekom Slovenia - Ipko Net”, ka paguar të enjten shumën prej 75 milionë eurosh në arkën e Buxhetit të Kosovës, me çka përmbushi obligimet formale ligjore për t’u pajisur me licencë për operator të dytë të telefonisë mobile në Kosovë.

23.02.2007 Novartis AG had filed a batch of petitions challenging the order of rejection of its patent application for beta crystalline form of imatinib mesylate and section 3 (d) of the Act as amended by the Patents (Amendment) Act. Additional Solicitor-General, V.T. Gopalan,told the Madras High Court the amended Section 3 (d) of the Patents Act and the explanation were valid.

23.02.2007 The Left parties and experts demanded the scrapping of the Mashelkar committee report on patents, and asked the Government to reject any proposal from its members to rewrite the "plagiarised" and "pro-multinational corporation" paper.

22.02.2007 According to a World Health Organisation survey, many Indian families, whose inability to access or afford water, sanitation and nutritious food has made them more prone to ill-health, have been pushed below the poverty line by the rising cost of healthcare

22.02.2007 The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)'s climate coordinator in the South Pacific says that a recent United Nations report on climate change has "underestimated" the threat to millions of people in the region from sea-level rise.

20.02.2007 ¿Existe un sitio desde el cuál se pueda mirar lo que sucede en el mundo? ¿Es posible identificar un centro de la globalización? Este tipo de preguntas me asaltan una y otra vez después de leer distintos análisis sobre la globalización

20.02.2007 The problem lies altogether with the incorrect understanding of the concept of pre-primary education. It is submitted that pre-primary education is in fact not a formal education as is commonly understood but is only a play way education. It is well known fact that the children are sent to play way schools as early as of two years of age and the same is gaining ground.

20.02.2007 Freedom must be given judiciously to appropriate person. It is said, "freedom is our birth right". Absolutely Right! The implication is tantalizing. We have freedom to take bribe, we have freedom to oppress poorer, we have freedom to abuse power and money, we have freedom to support corrupted officers and ministers to get a gainful position.The view expressed by Abhijit Bhattacharyya.

20.02.2007 For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we should do.Mr Siddharth Varadarajan. express this view in Hindu.

20.02.2007 At least 67 people were killed and 50 injured when two firebombs went off on the New Delhi-Wagah Samjhauta Express just before midnight on Sunday. Most of the dead, including three children, are Pakistani citizens: the first civilians of that country to have died in a terrorist strike on Indian soil.

19.02.2007 El sábado 3 de Febrero fue un día inolvidable para las y los compañeros afiliados a la Red COMAL en Gracias, Lempira. Después de muchos esfuerzos logramos la instalación de la Unidad Regional de Mayoreo, URM, en esta región occidental del país.

19.02.2007 The Education and Employment Alliance (EEA), a global initiative to develop new public-private partnerships that address critical education and employment needs, will hold its Second Annual Global Summit in Hyderabad, India, between March 6-8, 2007

19.02.2007 Residents of the embattled northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna who get to see the ‘Uthayan’ newspaper often get a copy that is thumb-worn and soiled from having passed through the hands of many avid readers.

19.02.2007 Some of the biggest brands in electronics industries and their suppliers are contaminating rivers and underground wells with a wide range of hazardous chemicals, according to a Greenpeace survey