Full Coverage: Civil society

27.12.2006

26.12.2006

20.12.2006 The UN will hold an inter-agency meet on communication for development at Addis Ababa on 12-14 February, 2007 to develop a UN-based common approach to C4D in the context of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The meet will be hosted by UNESCO.

19.12.2006 GUALEGUAYCHU, Argentina, Dec 18 (IPS) - With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.

19.12.2006 The ‘We Can’ campaign, that is encouraging people in South Asia to stand up against domestic violence, has successfully trained 3,50,000 National Change Makers in India to bring about a change in the hearts and minds of people. The focus of the campaign is to bring about a positive attitude and behaviour towards women in the Indian sub-continent.

18.12.2006 The NGO Coalition “Cooperation for a Common Goal” prepared the second draft of the Strategy of Relations between the Government and NGOs in Montenegro, the “NGO Code of Conduct” and the “Structure of Public Funding Financing for NGOs”, and invites all stake-holders to comment on the papers through the Coalition’s web-site.

17.12.2006 NEW DELHI, Dec 16 (OneWorld) - Nearly 60 percent of southern India's tsunami-affected citizens are living in temporary shelters two years after the disaster, a local group said this week, blaming the housing shortcomings on government apathy and poor construction efforts by both the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

15.12.2006 We salute this important historic moment which opens with the Summit of Cochabamba, which holds the challenge of deepening a process of regional integration which expresses the peoples’ interests.

15.12.2006 The MJAFT Movement expressed its concerns over the situation regarding the oncoming elections. It accuses the political parties of avoiding debate on real issues and problems of Albanian citizens.

15.12.2006 The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 is a new prize, launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Stockholm Challenge. It is designed as an integral part of the Stockholm Challenge 2008 and will open in four of the ordinary six ICT4D categories: Culture, Economic Development, Education and Public Administration. The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 opens on 1 January 2007 and will be accessible both from the Stockholm Challenge website and from the GKP portal.

15.12.2006 NEW YORK, Dec 14 (OneWorld) - When Democratic lawmakers return to Washington next month to take over Congressional leadership positions, many will be under heavy pressure from their supporters to start impeachment hearings against President George W. Bush.

12.12.2006 Trade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala take an indepth look into the prevailing market trends and consumer behaviour.

12.12.2006 Chair of the GKP Executive Committee and Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Walter Fust tells Justine Chew of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) that it is vital to gather all stakeholders - the government, the private sector, the civil society and the media - to find better and quicker solutions to address issues in global policy.

12.12.2006 Dr. Abhay Kumar from Indian organisation Toxics Link interviews the guru of free and open software Richard Stallman who says that free software is software that respects the freedom of users and allows people to help their neighbours and their communities. Proprietary software is one which has power over its users and keeps them in a state of helplessness. Follow the interview with Stallman.

08.12.2006 In the second half of November 2006, ALDI conducted a public opinion survey on the “Results of activities of civic movements created in the previous period, from citizens’ perspective”, in order to identify how the citizens perceive civil society activities in the process of creation of public policies.

08.12.2006 African organisation Fahamu has called for expression of interest from organisations using mobile phone technologies for social justice work in Africa. This is also applicable to those who plan to use the mobile phone for human rights work in the continent.

08.12.2006 The 'We Can' campaign was launched in 2004 in South Asia to end all forms of violence against Women. The aim is to challenge and change deeply-entrenched gender-biased societal attitudes and practices that endorse gender discrimination and violence. This media kit describes in detail the gender relations, discrimination, forms of violence and the progress of the 'We Can' campaign.

06.12.2006 Social Web? What's that? Sometimes Mimi likes to push the envelope, and to encourage her gentle readers to sit back and reflect on the latest advances in technology that are now - or soon will be - affecting African civil society. The social web, also called Web 2.0 by trendsetters, represents a new era of the Internet in which people no longer go on the web expecting to merely access information provided by others. Everyone can now comment on what they read, change it, rate it, and put up information of their own - all using new user-friendly web interfaces. Read more...

05.12.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 (OneWorld) - Continued pressure from the nation's leading civil society organizations and consistent Senate opposition forced President George W. Bush to back down from his decision to reappoint John Bolton as the top U.S. diplomat at the United Nations.

04.12.2006 A poverty-stricken tribal community that had migrated to Bangladesh centuries ago has found a voice through the innovative use of ICTs. Bangladesh NGO Youth Community Multimedia Centre (YCMC) that disseminates community-related information through cable network in Sitakund had an interesting experience with the Tripura tribal people in Bangladesh hills.