Full Coverage: Civil society

27.06.2006 The participants of the Gender Equality and Role of Women in Transition and Development of Democratic Values Conference presented the institutions, public services, media, the Priboj Municipal Gender Equality Council and NGO with a set of recommendations designed to assist the achievement of true gender equality.

27.06.2006 The DOSTA Movement threw a party, on Friday, June 23, 2006, on the “private” plateau in front of the Building of Joint Institutions in Sarajevo, to protest the “philistine culture and lack of taste”.

23.06.2006 Almost every working day of the week at least some 10 people make a beeline to a small bungalow situated in a narrow lane in the heart of the southern Matara town. These people are bringing grievances to the zonal office of Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Commission. The Disaster Relief Monitoring Unit of the Human Rights Commission has set up an Information Centre at the zonal offices of the Commission in the tsunami-affected areas over compensation-related and other problems.

23.06.2006 The time is now ripe for the development community to engage with climate change, says Saleemul Huq, director of the climate change programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom and chair of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies.

22.06.2006 The informal coalition of five civic associations from Bitola protested the ignorant treatment they receive from the National Agency for Youth and Sports, and condemned the direct attempt at manipulation of the youth population of Bitola within the election campaign.

22.06.2006 The Commission for Coordination of Youth Issues in B&H, which includes representatives of institution on national, entity and District of Brcko level and representatives of youth non-governmental sector, will start the initiative to adopt a Law on Youth Issues, on national, entity and BH Federation.

22.06.2006 Journalists, media entrepreneurs, government and civil society representatives, academics, and students met last week in UNESCO’s Montevideo Office to analyze and evaluate the situation of media, development and poverty reduction in Uruguay and the region, and to make recommendations for UNESCO’s action in this context.

22.06.2006 Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre from Belgrade, was invited to address the inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), to be held today in Geneva, Switzerland.

20.06.2006 On the occasion of recent demonstration of hate-speech in Serbian Skupstina (the parliament), when Zoran Krasic, MP from the Serb Radical Party, called Ivana Dulic-Markovic, Minister of Agriculture, an "ustasha" from the pulpit, a group of eight NGOs printed a leaflet to remind the public about previous cases of Radicals' involvement in similar incidents.

19.06.2006 Few would dispute that civil society organisations (CSOs) have grown substantially in number and influence over the past decades. But, are these groups at a point now where they play a determining role, alongside government, in public policy-making?

15.06.2006 Diaspora Nigerians in Science and Technology (DiNiSAT) has called for strategic partnership with stakeholders in Nigeria to advance the development of science and technology in the country.

14.06.2006 The Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) and the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) on 5 June, 2006 organized a roundtable on “Election Legislation in Kosovo: Who? What? When? How?” attended by high representatives of local institutions, the international presence, political parties and the civil society.

13.06.2006 On Sunday, June 11, the students Department of Product Design at the Academy of Fine Arts (AFA), in cooperation with visiting artists fom Germany and Canada and the Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary Arts, raised a big DOSTA! logo (5X5 metres), made of black and white balloons. The logo, created in a seven-day workshop held in Sarajevo.

10.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 (OneWorld) - The director of an independent Cuban news agency is in critical condition after more than four months on hunger strike.

09.06.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre filed criminal charges against the anonymous author and performer of the song titled “Let’s Cut Some Throats”, on charges of inciting of racial, religious and national hatred and intolerance.

09.06.2006 Tejus Crisis and Trauma Foundation, a non-governmental organisation of Bangalore, has launched "Prerana," a disaster management initiative. The objectives will be to prevent disasters, offer rescue services, train citizens to handle natural calamities and help others in times of need such as a major fire or floods. Citizens with training would be able to help the fire services or home guards during emergency.

07.06.2006 The MOST Civic Association appealed today to all participants in the 2006 Parliamentary Elections to adhere to the legislation that regulates the electoral processes and to maintain the positive campaign climate.

06.06.2006 Des organisations de droits humains, des collectifs qui appuient la cause mapuche, et des personnes dans le monde, sont en train d’entreprendre des actions pour dénoncer le traitement inhumain et répressif de la part du gouvernement chilien envers une dizaine de prisonnier-e-s politiques Mapuche dans ce pays.

05.06.2006 Away from the cacophony of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), prowess in information technology and the growing GDP, students from the University of Michigan, on a visit to India, got a taste of the real India – water problems, low literacy, poor infrastructure, ill-managed cities and rural poverty.

05.06.2006 The “Macedonian Student Union-MSU” came out with public statement today, to react to the meeting that Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski held with the representatives of the Students Union at the “Sv. Kiril i Metodij” University (SSUKM) and the State Student Centre.