Full Coverage: Governance

29.09.2006 141 of the 200 public administration bodies (70.5 percent) that received requests for information from Transparency International Croatia on September 4, presented their responses, 125 of them within the legal 15-day deadline.

28.09.2006 Ce qui se passe actuellement en Bolivie est sans précédent dans l’histoire moderne : un gouvernement indigène a pris le pouvoir et tente - avec une certaine dose de succès jusqu’à maintenant - de mettre en place des politiques s’inspirant d’anciennes pratiques et valeurs indigènes.

28.09.2006 Children who were out of school in 15 districts of Nepal now have the opportunity to learn how to read and write, thanks to the UNICEF-supported Out-of-School Programme (OSP).

28.09.2006 September 28, the International Day of the Right to Access Information has been marked all over the world since 2002, aiming to raise the public awareness on the citizens’ right to access information.

27.09.2006 With over 100,000 people contracting sexually transmitted diseases every year, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Employers Federation of Ceylon (EFC) have decided to educate working adults on HIV/AIDS without upsetting cultural sensibilities, through a US funded factory improvement programme.

27.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 26 (OneWorld) - A program to help homeowners cope with the destruction of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is mired in red tape, with local community groups left out in the cold, a leading international aid organization charged this week.

25.09.2006 Nigeria has received a 200-million-dollar soft loan to popularise Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the rural areas.

25.09.2006 A “serious problem” is looming in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna peninsula where escalating violence between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Government forces has cut food supplies and driven 60,000 people, nearly half of them children, into displaced persons camps, United Nations agencies have warned.

25.09.2006 Reacting to the Kerala High Court's decision to set aside the ban imposed on production and sale of Coca- Cola and Pepsi in the state of Kerala, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that it was very unfortunate. "The government has still not notified the safety norms and without these, the drinks remain as unsafe as before," said Sunita Narain, director, CSE.

22.09.2006 Journalists in Afghanistan are facing increasing pressure and threats for doing their jobs, mainly from government authorities and regional warlords, the country’s leading media association - Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) - warned in the capital, Kabul.

22.09.2006 Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today about the silence with which the Pakistani authorities, including information minister Mohammad Ali Durrani, have greeted the findings of the two reports they have received about the kidnapping and murder of Hayatullah Khan, a journalist based in North Waziristan who worked for the Urdu-language daily Ausaf and the European Press Photo Agency (EPA).

21.09.2006 Interview with Father Antonio Bonanomi, a 72-year-old Italian Catholic missionary, who has lived in Colombia since 1979, and is a harsh critic of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe.

20.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 19 (OneWorld) - The White House and dissident Senate Republicans began a fresh round of talks Tuesday over how to treat and prosecute terrorism suspects. President George W. Bush is having difficulty gaining approval for his plan because it would legalize interrogation techniques many see as torture including mock-drowning, stripping, and hooding of detainees.

19.09.2006 The majority of people in South Asia still face the indignity of open defecation and governments need to ensure that their sanitation programmes address this crisis and help reduce poverty, disease and unnecessary deaths in the region, a report by WaterAid says.

19.09.2006 Conservationists worldwide congratulated China as it implemented a stronger wildlife trade law and urged it to continue its existing ban on trade in tiger derivatives. The new Regulation for Import and Export of Endangered Species of Wildlife, will enhance China’s ability to combat illegal wildlife trade.

19.09.2006 The Indian government has failed in its constitutional duty to protect children say CSOs. Ahead of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period (2007-2012), they urge the Planning Commission to focus on issues of abuse and exploitation and allocate funds to ensure mechanisms for child protection.

18.09.2006 President of Albania Alfred Moisiu met with a delegation of the International Network of Albanian student associations ALBSTUDENT, composed of students who have graduated abroad, at both state and private educational institutions, and held with them an open and wholehearted talk.

16.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 16 (OneWorld) - Fresh allegations of brutality are being reported from inside the walls of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which was transferred from U.S. military to Iraqi government control on September 1st.

15.09.2006 The Indian state of West Bengal plans to invest massive in expressways, bridges, industrial hubs and knowledge cities. But a proposed 85-km long expressway has environmentalists worried.

14.09.2006 The Prime Minister of India and the Presidents of Brazil and South Africa underscored the importance of working together towards a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society and renewed their support for the results of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), held in Geneva and Tunis, in 2003 and 2005, respectively.