Full Coverage: Governance

30.11.2005 Between November 22 and 24, a shipment of six truckloads of corn returned to Croatia, originally exported to Hungary, to a known buyer, by Agragold Company from Zagreb. The Hungarians returned the corn accompanied with a report by a Budapest laboratory which states that the shipment contained genetically modified corn, report Osijek Greens.

29.11.2005 Nepal's oldest community radio station was shut down by government officials Sunday, and many other stations have switched to broadcasting "soft news." The move is making it difficult for the country's illiterate population to get news about last week's key agreement between Maoist rebels and the country's political parties, to which the king has not yet responded.

29.11.2005 The first women's university of south Punjab formally has started functioning, initially with four disciplines, at the Government College for Women in Multan. In a ceremony held at the girl's college, the university formally launched its post-graduate academic activities for women.

29.11.2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that he is "deeply disappointed" that Myanmar's authorities have extended the detention under house arrest of democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for another six months.

29.11.2005 An effort to regulate drug prices in India, through measures “other than price control”, has been wasted. A task force set up under Supreme Court directions to find ways to reduce prices of life-saving drugs, could not come up with many viable solutions.

28.11.2005 The Matija Gubec civic initative for resistance to the space for political discretion, came out with public reaction on the ruling adopted by the Constitutional Court to abolish the Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Public Gathering.

28.11.2005 The right to education bill that will be tabled sometime in the coming year, has the potential to bring about a significant transformation in elementary education in India.It attempts to make effective a child’s right to free and compulsory education by focussing on the state’s obligation to provide schools of “equitable” quality.

28.11.2005 Bangladesh govt planning to introduce 'unified education system' at the secondary level.The system that intends to replace the existing compartmentalized methods of education---- students are allowed to take up science, commerce and humanities subjects at class nine--- with an unified education system at the secondary level from the next academic year.

28.11.2005 In a move that could shut down one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plant in India permanently, the Kerala government has notified the area as "over-exploited" where one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plants is located in southern India. The government seeks to regulate the use of groundwater due to scarcity.

27.11.2005 As official government policy, France refuses to acknowledge racism as even existing in the country and prohibits the collection of racial data or organizing along racial lines. But policies like these--ostensibly to keep the country race-blind--have only served to intensify the country's race problem, argues race scholar Clarence Lusane.

25.11.2005 On the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Office of the Kosovo Prime Minister opened its Gender Equality Office.

25.11.2005 Several women NGOs from Skopje, in partnership with government ministries, launched the Don’t Hide It, Report it campaign earlier today, organized under the auspices of the 16 Days of Activism global campaign.

25.11.2005 More than 55 organisations under the umbrella of Jan Caravan, Peole's Caravan, have decided to hold rally in Indian capital New Delhi on 10th December to draw the attention of the Indian government towards pro-people policies at the forthcoming WTO ministerial to be held in Hong Kong.

25.11.2005 This report provides guidelines and case studies to developing countries on legislation for data privacy, e-applications and prevention of cyber crime; with practical examples on how some countries have addressed legislation on the prevention of cyber crime.

25.11.2005 Reporters Without Borders today urged Commonwealth heads of government to see that people killing journalists because of their work were duly punished, so the Commonwealth could become “a true home of democracy and freedom.” Many journalists have been killed in the south Asian region simply for doing their duty.

25.11.2005 Globalization changed the apologetic manner of the state. Government officers attended seminars, generally organized by NGOs, and declared unabashedly that the government could not do everything and that the private sector must step in to help. . The reality, however, was that expenditure on education was around two per cent of Pakistan?

25.11.2005 Liberia's president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has congratulated her challenger, soccer legend George Weah, for an "impressive showing," ignoring his charges of electoral fraud and promising to head an inclusive post-war government.

25.11.2005 The Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests has allowed two Indian oil companies to carry out offshore drilling on the country's east coast near the state of Orissa. The drilling will be carried out near a marine sanctary and a Ramsar site that harbour the endangered turtle as well as an endangered specie of dolphin.

25.11.2005 State Governments as well as the student community are only hoping that it will become possible for the Union Government and Members of Parliament to enact the Bill meant to regulate private professional colleges — the Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Bill, 2005. Mr V. Jayanth addresses issue on the bill in The Hindu.

25.11.2005 The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced a set of new initiatives to bring in 'transparency, accessibility, accountability, quality and equity' in the functioning of the institute.