Full Coverage: Governance

31.08.2006 A new report on labour and social trends in South Asia warns of a growing socio-economic disconnect in the sub region, as economic growth and improved productivity fail to translate adequately into job creation and better wages. The report, Labour and Social Trends in Asia and the Pacific 2006: Progress towards Decent Work has been produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO).

31.08.2006 For years, Nawab Mohammed Akbar Khan Bugti battled the Pakistan Army. The 80-year-old renegade hidden in the mountains of Balochistan became a legend in his fight for greater autonomy against what he saw as colonial brutality.
And his death this weekend, during a fierce three-day battle that left more than 30 dead, could prove a serious blow to Pakistan's stability.

30.08.2006 Today, August 30, the American Corner Skopje organizes a presentation and discussion on the topics of freedom of information (FOI) and freedom of access to information of public character.

30.08.2006 The ultimate goal in gender equality is to ensure that women and men have equitable access to, and benefit from society's resources, opportunities and rewards. And, as part of this, women need to have equal participation in defining what is valued and how this can be achieved, women's groups told the Planning Commission.

30.08.2006 Under considerable pressure for its perceived lack of clarity on the issue of pesticide residue in carbonated drinks, and lack of urgency in formulating norms to regulate their safety, India’s health ministry has promised that norms for these products will be in place by January 2007.

30.08.2006 The DOSTA activist movement of B&H citizens fighting for their dignity organized protest gathering in Sarajevo last Saturday, August 26, under the motto “Stop to Violence, Campaign Lies and Hate-Mongering”. The protests were held on Oslobodjenje-Alija Izetbegovic Square.

30.08.2006 The task force on education, set up by the Orissa government to prepare its Vision-2020 document, notes in its report that for three years, 27 high schools in the state have showed ‘Nil’ results.

30.08.2006 It is nearly two decades since the Indian government banned child labour in Firozabad's bangle and glassware industry and created a law to rehabilitate thousands of children who had now been plucked out of factories. The reality is that the schools are shabby with no furniture and no teaching materials and many children continue to work in the factories.

30.08.2006 Suicides by farmers in the west Indian state of Maharashtra have been on the rise despite a relief package announced by the Indian Prime Minister. In northern Maharashtra the number of farmer suicides in 2006 has inched close to the cumulative figure for the past four years.

29.08.2006 El candidato izquierdista a la presidencia, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, llamó hoy a sus seguidores a 'un gran debate nacional' para decidir, el próximo 16 de septiembre, si encabeza un gobierno en la resistencia.

29.08.2006 Norway has made a US$20 million contribution to ADB's Pakistan earthquake fund through an innovative debt-for-development swap. The debt-for-development swap means that $20 million worth of outstanding loan repayment obligations from Pakistan to Norway will be converted into a grant to be administered by ADB.

29.08.2006 As part of his ongoing campaign to highlight threats to press freedom worldwide, the Director- General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned the murder of a journalist in Sri Lanka.

29.08.2006 A World Bank's report has bracketed Andhra Pradesh as being in `middle of the pack, neither outstanding nor poor' in carrying out reforms process and in human development index

29.08.2006 The children living in slum areas, who do not go to school, will now be educated under a special government scheme. Children from six to 14 years of age will be imparted free education at Alternative and Innovative Education Centres (AIEC), which will be opened in slum areas under the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan, a Centre-sponsored scheme.

25.08.2006 Amnesty International India has expressed its deep concern at the demolitions of the protest-huts at Azad Maidan, Mumbai on August 24, 2006, under High Court orders. The human rights organisation has said evictions have made nearly 350,000 people homeless since 2004 and the government has failed to rehabilitate them till now. This has resulted in not only the loss of homes but also of livelihoods.

25.08.2006 Indian NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has said that the science used by the health ministry experts to give cola companies a clean chit is complete junk. In a detailed, point-by-point response to the government’s report the CSE has said only two bottles were tested by the government and the report of these tests has not been made public.

24.08.2006 In a bold move India is backing moves to promote a national needle exchange and drug substitution programme for intravenous drug users in order to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS in this high-risk and vulnerable group.

24.08.2006 Save the Children appealed to all actors in Montenegrin political scene to give priority in their political platforms and agendas to the improvement and protection of children rights.

24.08.2006 The situation in the Narmada valley today is nothing unexpected yet the most shocking. The Sardar Sarovar Dam, with the height raised, has silently killed the Adivasi communities in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh and many in Badwani and Dhar districts of Madhya Pradesh too. These generations' old Adivasis in the Satpura and Vindhya have lost their main sources of livelihood, land, to the sea that the roaring river water is converted to.

24.08.2006 India’s highest court issues notices to central and state authorities for stricter implementation of the law that ban sex-determination tests and sex-selective abortions. A public interest litigation has said that recognition of pre-birth sex-selection should be considered medical malpractice as it involves the misuse of medical technology