Full Coverage: Civil society

30.11.2005 The Municipality of Tirana organized the “Bright Night”, a party where no one sleeps. Lighting the night, Tirana enlivened its quarters, streets, public and historical spaces, cinemas, museums and theatres with activities that brought a new perspective to the city’s spaces, streets and squares, creating an unusual climate and a party environment.

29.11.2005 This holiday season holds huge promise for philanthropic giving. You may have seen the new OneWorld Holiday Gift Guide; now MADRE offers suggestions on how to identify organizations that not only address people's immediate needs, but also work for sustainable social change.

29.11.2005 Today (Tuesday, November 29), under the auspices of the 16 Days of Activism campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and before the B&H Parliamentary Elections 2006, a pre-election tea-party will be organized, to discuss the role and position of women in B&H politics.

29.11.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 28 (OneWorld) - A widely unnoticed bill that makes access to clean water a central aim of U.S. foreign assistance was approved by the House of Representatives and Senate earlier this month.

28.11.2005 Over 18000 participants attend the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. Presidents, prime ministers, ministers as well as representatives of the development, civic and private sector were among the participants. Macedonia was one of them, represented on both official Governmental and civil society level. Read the report by Metamorphosis.

28.11.2005 The Matija Gubec civic initative for resistance to the space for political discretion, came out with public reaction on the ruling adopted by the Constitutional Court to abolish the Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Public Gathering.

26.11.2005 The “No Shame” action organized yesterday in Zagreb by the Autonomous Women’s House Zagreb, B.a.B.e. women human rights group, and the ROSA Centre for women victims of War>, and with participation by the Zenska Soba (Women Room) organization, marked the International Day of Fight against Violence against Women. The topic of the action was the violence against women and the legal and judicial treatment of the criminal offence of rape.

25.11.2005 On the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Office of the Kosovo Prime Minister opened its Gender Equality Office.

25.11.2005 Religious extremism is threatening democratic institutions and freedoms in Bangladesh, and fomenting hatred and violence towards minority ethnic and faith communities, a group of mainly British MPs claimed this week as they established an international civil society network to monitor the country's progress towards compliance with international human rights standards.

25.11.2005 Children staged skits to highlight miseries of child beggars and working street children, urging their parents to take care of their offspring by admitting them to the Centre for Street Children to make them useful citizens. The function was arranged by Terre des Hommes (TDH), a Switzerland-based NGO, at the Centre for Street Children here on Tuesday, to observe the Children’s Rights Day.

25.11.2005 OneWorld South Asia and the Business Community Foundation are organising a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) meeting - CSR in Asia: Where are we and what's ahead? - on December 9-10, 2005 in New Delhi.

25.11.2005 The polycentric WSF to be held at Karachi in Pakistan, previously planned to take place from January 24th to 29th, 2006, has been delayed by two months. The decision was taken during a meeting of the WSF 2006 Organizing Committee and Pakistani Social Forum National Committee in Lahore, on November 19th. The new date will be decided later.

24.11.2005 The Supreme Court Tuesday issued shoe cause notice to the government asking it to furnish in written why they issued the code of conduct for NGOs. The single bench of justice Top Bahadur Magar has given an ultimatum of 15 days for the government to do so.

24.11.2005 Maoists have closed down another community school. The Maoists locked Rana Bhuwaneshwari Higher Secondary School in Khadgabhanjyang VDC-5, Nuwakot, along with some other schools in Gaganbhanjyang VDC of the district.

22.11.2005 The “XY” Production Company will officially promote its “Otisci” (“Prints”) documentary series today, at the Media Centre Sarajevo. The screening and the promotion will be reserved for journalists and partners of the XY Production.

22.11.2005 In a major crackdown on employment of child labour, a joint team of the State Labour Department, the Delhi police and the non-governmental organisation, Pratham, rescued close to 500 children from illegal zari units in northeast Delhi.

21.11.2005 Several NGOs led by the NGO Federation of Nepal jointly filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court seeking an interim order against implementation of the recently introduced NGO code of conduct. Nine NGOs including the Dalit NGO Federation have argued in their writ that the code of conduct is against the constitution and aims at restricting the rights of the NGOs

21.11.2005 The biggest ever operation undertaken to rescue children working under inhuman condition in zari units, a joint team of the State Labour Department, Delhi police and a non-government organisation Pratham plan to mount raids at over 100 such factories in the Capital on Today, 21 November 2005.

18.11.2005 Realising that there are more than 20 lakh children with special needs (CWSN), HRD ministry is rapidly moving towards bringing them under the umbrella of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

17.11.2005 Wednesday afternoon, November 17, the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) invited the press and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for what was to become a marathon of explicit talks challenging the Tunisian government on its human rights record. While heads of states’ speeches present at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) were pouring in on all TV channels, revolution was just around the corner in another district of Tunis. Report by APC News.