Full Coverage: International cooperation

31.08.2006 The internodium.org portal reported last week that US NGOs CHF Montenegro (Community, Habitat and Finance), International Relief and Development (IRD) and the Academy for Educational Development announced the implementation of “Montenegro Connect” project for establishment of wireless network on the whole territory of Montenegro.

31.08.2006

Dalit Aid

International NGOs (INGOs) vary greatly in size, approach and focus. For the majority, India continues to be a priority area for their activities, where they use a variety of working strategies. There are many different approaches the INGOs follow with regard to Dalit programmes in India. We need to learn from each other where there is an impact and where there are problems. We need to analyse the nature and context of caste discrimination, soical exclusion of dalits, caste conflicts and solutions to such conflicts, assess the political dimensions of Dalit empowerment, assess the different models and ways of working on Dalit issues.

30.08.2006 The House of Representatives instructed the government to endorse the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. If its backers maintain pressure on the government, ratification should happen in the next session of parliament in a couple of months, said parliamentarian Bijaya Subba, who piloted the recommendation through the house.

29.08.2006 Norway has made a US$20 million contribution to ADB's Pakistan earthquake fund through an innovative debt-for-development swap. The debt-for-development swap means that $20 million worth of outstanding loan repayment obligations from Pakistan to Norway will be converted into a grant to be administered by ADB.

29.08.2006 As part of his ongoing campaign to highlight threats to press freedom worldwide, the Director- General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned the murder of a journalist in Sri Lanka.

22.08.2006 Indian-US plans to cooperate on nuclear energy have drawn public criticism from eight of India's top scientists in the field. They say that recent US changes to the text of the deal are "unacceptable to India" and would limit its independence in nuclear research and its right to a nuclear deterrent.

21.08.2006 Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase information communication technology penetration in Nigeria.

21.08.2006 A tall lanky youth rounds a bend in a mountain path and sees a group, stripped of their packs, resting in the shade of a tree near a small waterfall. He approaches, says hello and shakes hands with those nearest and then stretches and even clambers up a small incline to clasp hands with everyone, rare behaviour in this remote hill region.

21.08.2006 India has offered Sri Lanka expert support to formulate a model of power devolution similar to the state system of India, but the Sri Lanka government's main ally has registered its strong opposition to the proposal.

21.08.2006 U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Pakistan Peter Bodde has announced the awarding of U.S. Agency for International Development Earthquake Reconstruction grants worth $70 million to international and Pakistani non-governmental organizations that will improve health and education services in the earthquake-affected areas and create economic opportunities for the local population.

18.08.2006 The enabling legislation to ensure the fundamental right to education to Indian children has been watered down yet again, with Indian government deleting a crucial clause on quotas for underprivileged children in private schools, in the model Bill that it has sent to states for their feedback

18.08.2006 Even as the families displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Project were facing colossal tragedy of large-scale submergence and displacement in the Narmada valley from the overflowing Narmada dam, another crisis was in the making with release of water from the upstream Tawa and Narmada Sagar dams, according to the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NDA) leader Medha Patkar

18.08.2006 The reliability and safety of oral polio vaccine (OPV) has been put under scrutiny in Pakistan after wild rumours that it causes impotency snowballed into a writ petition in a high court.

17.08.2006 With the Nepal government and Maoist rebels agreeing to begin the process of arms management, all eyes are now focused on the United Nations to manage a difficult and touchy issue in Nepal's peace process.

17.08.2006 While a major international conference on HIV/AIDS opened Sunday in Canada with a message to help those affected by the disease, on this side of the globe, in Burma, the ruling military regime moved to arrest sufferers and campaigners.

14.08.2006 In nepal the narrow trails carved into the steep, emerald hills that plunge into the winding Karnali River hundreds of metres below, villagers have one thing on their minds: emergency rice.

14.08.2006 Death hangs over this deserted town in eastern Sri Lanka and the stench of decomposing bodies is overpowering. Most of its 50,000-odd inhabitants have fled and there is no one around to bury the dead.

14.08.2006 Education is intimately connected to one's life opportunities' besides one's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. However, the benefits of education should not be solely viewed as a benefit to oneself." These views was expressed by academician, at the third convocation programme of Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIT-A).

10.08.2006 The United States, which pays 22 percent of the U.N.'s regular annual budget of 1.8 billion dollars, has arrogantly demanded a dominant voice in management and administration -- primarily because it is the biggest single financial contributor to the world body.

09.08.2006 Former Foreign Secretary, Muchkund Dubey, will head a three-member Commission that will suggest ways to end discrimination at school-level education and provide equitable quality education to students from all strata of society in Bihar.