Full Coverage: Civil society

31.01.2006 Sandra Pernar, Deputy President of GONG association received the Council of Europe Award for its “First Time Voter” Project, yesterday in Strassbourg. “First Time Voter” is a project implemented by GONG for six years in a row, at Croatian secondary schools. Over 100,000 high-school students have participated in the projects.

31.01.2006 The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is holding a four-day training programme between February 21-24, 2006 and is inviting nominations by February 10, 2006.

30.01.2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for the U.N. to modify its mindset and increasingly work with "all the new actors on the international scene"--non-profits, the private sector, the media, local administrators, and others--rather than exclusively with governments.

30.01.2006 The minister of industries in Tamil Nadu, Nainar Nagendran inaugurated the state government’s multimedia campaign to popularize schemes of the state government.

30.01.2006 On Tuesday, 31 January, 2006, Acting Ombudsperson of Kosovo, Hilmi Jashari, will attend the first open day applicant session at the Ombudsperson Institution field office in the Serbian enclave of Gracanica.

29.01.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 29 (OneWorld) - The governments of the United States and Iran--part of President George W. Bush's ''axis of evil'' and his current nuclear bete noire--demonstrated rare unity of cause this past week when Washington backed a Tehran initiative to deny UN access to advocates of sexual minorities' rights.

27.01.2006 From the suffragettes and the garment workers who inspired the first International Women's Day to Rosa Parks and her allies in the civil rights movement, U.S. women have a long tradition of standing up for justice and peace, says CodePink founder Medea Benjamin. She calls on America's women to take a stand again and join CodePink's "Women Say No to War" campaign.

27.01.2006 The groundwork has been laid to bring Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity, but complacency and corruption may leave millions waiting for justice. Others believe prosecution would do little to ease the suffering of the country's embittered citizens, anyway.

26.01.2006 Brazil's president Lula is not coming to this year's World Social Forum, being held this week in Venezuela. He has a lot of work to do at home to prepare his beleaguered party for November's elections, and his role as champion of Latin America's left may be usurped by one of three local colleagues: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner, or Bolivia's Evo Morales.

26.01.2006 The Zapatistas launched an armed rebellion in the Chiapas region of Mexico over a decade ago; now they're on the campaign trail with the recently launched "Other Campaign." As Mexico's 2006 presidential campaign gets under way, the Zapatistas are crossing the country in an attempt to mobilize the millions of disenfranchised indigenous and working class people.

25.01.2006 As the first leg of this year's World Social Forum drew to a close in West Africa Monday, participants noted the decidedly "Afrocentric" focus of the event. Despite minor administrative glitches, participants discussed issues ranging from women's rights to the conflict in the Sudan, and shuttled between more than 800 events and activities.

25.01.2006 For over a year, the Citizens Advocacy Office has implemented a civil initiative for cooperation in process of drafting, promotion, advocating and lobbying for legislation against domestic violence in Albania.

25.01.2006 Indian participation in the first two phases of the polycentric World Social Forum (WSF), which wound down in the Malian capital of Bamako on Monday and opened in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 24, is mainly from the WSF Indian Working Committee (IWC). Still hundreds of Indian students and grassroots activists from the women's, peasants' and trade union movements are preparing to travel to Karachi.

24.01.2006 Walter Schwimer, former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, who in March 2004 recommended to the CoE to use “Slavic” instead of “Macedonian”, arrived to Skopje yesterday, but not to apologize, but as an advisor to the Prime Minister.

23.01.2006 Africa, the world's poorest continent, for the first time is playing host to the World Social Forum, the anti-globalisation movement set up as a counterweight to a forum of the world's rich and powerful.

21.01.2006 Several civic associations reacted yesterday that the street-blocks set by “Glas na svetlina” in protest of the sale of ESM impede on the vital functions of the capital of Macedonia. “Glas na svetlina”, on the other hand, says that the blocks will stop when the Government gives up on its idea to sell ESM and not a moment sooner.

20.01.2006 Thomson Financial’s IFR magazine raised £2 million for Save the Children at its 11th annual awards dinner this week.

20.01.2006 BRUSSELS: An alliance of development groups is challenging the European Union and developed countries over their plans to promote water privatisation in developing countries at a key international meeting later this year.

20.01.2006 Women surpass men in almost every measure of charitable behaviour, according to new research by Oxfam.

20.01.2006 The Alcan Prize for Sustainability 2006, in association with the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), is now open for entries. Any not-for-profit, civil society or non-governmental organization based anywhere in the world can enter for the annual US$1 million Prize for their contributions to addressing and progressing economic, environmental and / or social sustainability. The last date is March 31, 2006.