Full Coverage: Civil society

30.08.2006 Talking with more than one funder about technology is akin to asking a roomful of people to look through a kaleidoscope pointed out a window. Even with the same instrument and the same view, each person will likely describe a different scene before them.

29.08.2006 Until last week, the road going south from the Kanthale junction was mostly deserted. Most vehicles whizzed past the junction towards Trincomalee, some 50 kilometres East of Kanthale town. But now numerous vehicles are making their way on the otherwise desolate road that links Kanthale to Muthur.

24.08.2006

Foreign Grant

NGO activity being largely voluntary, overheads in such organisations should be minimal. But establishment expenses are often the main reason for receiving donations from abroad. And information on fund sources and use is only rarely available, says R. VAIDYANATHAN, adding that as conscience-keepers who are the first to point fingers at the government it is vital that NGOs ensure their own activities are transparent.

23.08.2006 The MOST Centre for Cultural Development and Information started its Odjek civic information portal, dedicated to the NGO sector in Montenegro.

21.08.2006 The World Bank Group has approved a $40 million loan to Ghana, to support the implementation of selected components of the government?s Information and Communications Technology, (ICT) for Accelerated Development Policy.

21.08.2006 The Commonwealth Secretariat is assisting the Government of Bangladesh's 20 million taka (£153,000) initiative to develop four rural information and communication technology (ICT) access centres in the South Asian nation to promote the use of ICT for community development and commerce.

21.08.2006 UNESCO is organising meetings to review the progress and implementation mechanism of WSIS Plan of Action on communication and information.

17.08.2006 Throughout the past week gunmen of have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO for its initials in Spanish) killing four and wounding at least 10.

17.08.2006 NEW YORK, Aug 16 (OneWorld) - Rights advocacy groups here are calling for the United Nations to support human rights defenders in Iran.

10.08.2006 Like now, they ask me to write about Cuba, the situtation there, what's going on. And I say to myself, maybe I could use this space so those who usually don't read such stuff, "the other stuff", that's being written about what's happening in Cuba, might read it.

10.08.2006 Acabo de ter o privilégio de participar num desses acontecimentos. Teve lugar entre 15 e 17 de Julho na cidade de Cusco, Peru, antiga capital do Império Inca, o umbigo do mundo, como lhe chamavam os Incas, a 3500 metros de altitude na Cordilheira dos Andes. Tratou-se do congresso fundacional da Coordenadora Andina das Organizações Indígenas do Peru, Equador, Bolívia, Chile, Colômbia e Argentina.

10.08.2006 Tens of activists of MJAFT Movement build yesterday (on Wednesday) a wall at the Rinia Park to symbolize the gap and division existing between the executive and the real needs of the citizens. On the one side of this concrete wall the activists wrote some of the unfulfilled needs like lack of water supplies, lack of electric power or other basic services.

09.08.2006 El Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos CENIDH, por medio del Director Ejecutivo, el Doctor Bayardo Izabá Soliz, interpuso el 03 de agosto ante la Fiscalía General de la República, una denuncia formal contra el Director de la Policía Nacional, el Primer Comisionado Edwin Cordero Ardila.

08.08.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 8 (OneWorld) - A prominent international humanitarian organization is calling for the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the killings of a group of aid workers in Sri Lanka.

08.08.2006 Local leaders from across rural India are to draw up an action plan to help stem the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in villages, where the majority of new infections are occuring, officials said on Monday.

07.08.2006 A Associação de Líderes de Aldeas Indígenas de Suriname, Stichting Sanomara Esa, a Associação de Autoridades dos Saramaka e o Programa Forest Peoples apresentaram quatro relatórios conjuntos para o Comitê de Eliminação da Discriminação Racial nas Nações Unidas (Comitê CERD).

03.08.2006 OneWorld South Asia will lead the the first project launched under the Commonwealth Connects programme -- 'Rebuilding After the Tsunami: Using ICTs for Change'. A new Commonwealth initiative to bridge the deepening digital divide across its member countries was unveiled by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK, on 3 August 2006.

01.08.2006 Under the framework of joint activities of the Network for Open Society in Albania (NOSA), Open Society Foundation in Albania (OSFA) and Partners-Albania, in cooperation with the Experts Group on legislation and economy, has worked together since 2005 to analyze the legal framework that regulates the activity of non-for-profit sector in Albania.