Full Coverage: Civil society

29.11.2006 Make responsible food choices, support family farmers around the world, volunteer, host a film screening, and more!

29.11.2006 Changing lives depends most on listening to people and understanding what motivates them.

29.11.2006 The World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) that brought together communication practitioners and developments experts from across the world has issued a final draft of recommendations for governments, policy makers and the development community. The meet that took place from October 25-27, 2006 in Rome says, "Communication for development is essential to make the difference happen".

29.11.2006 Radio Sagarmatha, the pioneering Kathmandu-based community radio broadcaster, has been awarded the AMARC International Solidarity Prize 2006 in recognition of its outstanding work in defence of human rights and democracy in Nepal.

29.11.2006 India-based Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) is organising the Asian Telecentre Forum 2007 conference from 6-8 February 2007 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The last date for submission of abstracts is 15th December 2006.

28.11.2006 Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist who was imprisoned after the American search engine company Yahoo provided information to the Chinese authorities that led to his arrest, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers.

28.11.2006 The decision by the Indian government to allow civil society organisations and community groups to own and operate radio stations will give an additional tool to the civil society to empower people it works with.

28.11.2006 The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has urged governments to take a new approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs) to reflect the needs, customs and views of indigenous communities in developing nations.

28.11.2006 Sri Lanka's first outdoor wireless computer network is now up and running. Surprisingly, it is not in Colombo. It is not even in any of the other key places. It was installed in Mahavilachchiya, a little known village, 40 km from the nearest town Anuradhapura, and surrounded three sides by the Vilpattu jungle.

28.11.2006 Lula foi reeleito presidente do Brasil com 58,29 milhões de votos. Dos 125 milhões de eleitores, numa população de 185 milhões de pessoas, 60,83% decidiram reconduzir à Presidência da República, por mais quatro anos, o líder sindical fundador do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

17.11.2006 The decision by the Indian government to allow civil society organisations and community groups to own and operate radio stations will give an additional tool to the civil society to empower people it works with.

17.11.2006 Networked Intelligence for Development is a Toronto based network of independent consultants and trainers specializing in new media, information and communication technologies (ICTs), the creative industries and international development. Our consultants have held senior positions in multilateral organizations, governmental and intergovernmental organizations, broadcasting and media institutions, research institutes and non-governmental organizations.

16.11.2006 Emitido pelo Conclave de Povos Indígenas, em Nova York, em 12 de novembro de 2006.

13.11.2006 More than five thousand people defied the windy storm in Tirana Friday afternoon, November 10, to profess their opposition to Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s authoritarianism at the CIVIL ACTION protest in front of the Prime Minister’s office.

10.11.2006 The representatives of the Civil Platform of Macedonia used the Parliamentary Office for Contacts with NGOs to present their initiative for changes in the Law on Associations in the 3rd Session of the Parliamentary Committee on Political System and Communities’ Relations of November 1, 2006. The initiative was later submitted for review to all 120 Members of Parliament.

10.11.2006 Rahul Kumar writes about the opening plenary of the India Social Forum which took off on Thursday in Indian capital New Delhi to the sound of drums, cries against globalisation and cheers for the setback that US President George Bush received in the recent elections.

10.11.2006 A Public Meet to discuss issues related to the rights of the individual vis-a-vis controversial acts like AFSPA and ULAPA is being organized on the sidelines of the Indian Social Forum on 11 November at 8pm at Hall No. P 2. The meet will bring together sections of society engaged in various democratic struggles to sit together and devise a collective response to the threat posed by these laws.

09.11.2006 The Chancellor of the University of Agriculture shuts the doors of the auditoriums saying that he was ordered to do so by the minister of education.

07.11.2006 Next Saturday, the activists of the Dosta! movement, together with activists of environmental organizations will organize signing of a petition against construction of dams on Upper Neretva, under the auspices of the “The Battle for Neretva” campaign. The construction, according to the campaign initiative, threatens to devastate area of extremely high value.

07.11.2006 The International Chamber of Commerce in Paris ruled today that the Albanian government must pay back 89 million Albanian LEK (approximately 900,000 USD) in Value Added Tax to the Albanian Education Development Project (AEDP), a nongovernmental organization launched by the Open Society Foundation in Albania.