Full Coverage: Governance

29.04.2005 A five-member task force, constituted by the Indian government in March 2005 to save the fast-dwindling tiger in the wake of disappearance of the big cat from a north Indian sanctuary, has laid out its plan of action to save the tiger from extinction. Rahul Kumar writes this report from New Delhi.

29.04.2005 The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative is organising a conference - Effective Implementation: Preparing to Implement the new India Right to Information Law - from May 23 - 25 2005 in New Delhi.

29.04.2005 Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to let rival candidate Alassane Ouattara run in elections in October, reversing his stand that a referendum be held to decide the issue and paving the way for rebels to return to the negotiating table and bring an end to the country's three-year conflict.

29.04.2005 A female Iraqi member of parliament, who had no security detail and was forced to rely on her own sons for protection, was shot and killed at her home in Baghdad Wednesday. Threats against Iraqi women leaders and women working for the United States have been escalating over the past year, says the Feminist Majority Foundation.

29.04.2005 The April 19 conference of NEPAD, the partnership of African countries working to improve governance and encourage foreign aid and investment, was poorly attended and did not release key reports as promised. Professor John Stremlau of South Africa's University of Witwatersrand counsels patience, however, noting that several African states are making positive strides on the path to greater accountability.

28.04.2005 With the application of visa regime, UNMIK has fallen into contradiction with the concept for Balkans in Europe and has heavily impinged the human rights for free movement.

28.04.2005 Charles Taylor, the former despotic ruler of Liberia nicknamed the "Murderer of Monrovia," is already manipulating the country's elections set to take place in October to avoid standing trial for war crimes, writes Douglas Farah, a former West Africa-based U.S. journalist.

28.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 27 (OneWorld) - If there is one consensus on human trafficking, it is this: as a cross-border problem, it cannot be solved without international cooperation. OneWorld presents part two of a three-part series on human trafficking from its new "treeless" magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.

28.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 27 (OneWorld) - Voters from across the country lobbied Capitol Hill Wednesday as part of an unusual movement to support their senators' right to make endless speeches.

27.04.2005 A new ad will be airing on radio stations in twelve key U.S. cities this week as Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate get closer to what could be a major confrontation over the use of the filibuster. The U.S.'s major lawmaking body could be shut down over a Republican attempt to eliminate the 200-year old political tactic that has ensured no party can wield absolute power over the other.

27.04.2005 A bargaining session Monday in Nigeria, where both parties agreed to form a government of national unity, did little to pre-empt violence in the tiny West African country of Togo Tuesday once the ruling party was declared the winner of the weekend's elections. The opposition has urged the country's five million people to resist, and tensions remained high overnight.

27.04.2005 The citizens should take active participation in the work of the municipal administration and to control the local governments. They should prevent the Mayors to turn into godlike features, the municipalities their local estates, and the decentralization the unfinished story. These were the conclusions from the yesterday’s debate “The NGO sector and the Local Government”, organized by the FORUM – Centre for Strategic Research.

26.04.2005 For the first time in history, the Municipal Budget of Prijedor has ear-marked funds for youth activities. For 2005, the total funds available for youth activities will amount to 75,000 KM.

26.04.2005 Dr Suman Mehta, associate director of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), who is responsible for providing policy and programme support on HIV/AIDS to countries in Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, speaks to Rajiv Tikoo of OneWorld South Asia about the 3 by 5 Progress Report and on the progress and the challenges in mainstreaming HIV/AIDS.

25.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 25 (OneWorld) - The U.S. government should name a special prosecutor to look at Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's possible role in the torture and abuse of Iraqi and other prisoners by U.S. troops, a leading human rights group has demanded.

25.04.2005 During the last meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Power Supply Company (EPCG) of April 14th, the new electricity price tariffs were discussed but obviously not the resignation of its Chairman, Mr Branimir Gvozdenovic who is also a Vice Prime Minister for Economic Policy and Development within Government of Montenegro (GoM).

22.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 22 (OneWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved an energy bill Thursday--the eve of Earth Day--after beating back numerous attempts to minimize the environmental harm that critics said the measure would wreak.

22.04.2005 U.S. lawmakers are gearing up for a potentially major clash next week over judicial nominations and the filibuster in what's being called by some a political power grab by the ruling party. President Bush's Ecuadorian counterpart was violently ousted this week by an angry populace after packing his country's Supreme Court with his own political allies.

21.04.2005 Forced to flee the country under Taliban rule, Habiba Sorabi has returned to become the first female provincial governor in Afghanistan. She concedes that much remains to be done to improve the rights of Afghan women.

21.04.2005 President Bush and the Republican Party were dealt a major blow Tuesday when the panel of senators considering John Bolton’s nomination as the new U.S. ambassador to the UN put off their decision for another two weeks in order to investigate fresh allegations against Bolton's character and fitness to serve.