Full Coverage: Governance

26.02.2007 The GONG and the Croatian Journalist Association (HND) express their opposition to the draft-Law on Classification and Confidentiality of Information, which they claim will further close the state administration and other bodies with public competences to citizens overview and scrutiny.

24.02.2007 Five years after the Sri Lankan government signed a Norway-brokered ceasefire agreement (CFA) with Tamil separatist rebels, all actors are now agreed that the document now remains solely on paper.

23.02.2007 The Strategy promoted yesterday by the Department for Cooperation with Nongovernmental Organizations of the Government’s General Secretariat aims to improve the cooperation between the Government and the civil sector.

23.02.2007 Novartis AG had filed a batch of petitions challenging the order of rejection of its patent application for beta crystalline form of imatinib mesylate and section 3 (d) of the Act as amended by the Patents (Amendment) Act. Additional Solicitor-General, V.T. Gopalan,told the Madras High Court the amended Section 3 (d) of the Patents Act and the explanation were valid.

22.02.2007 A pilot project by Unicef in West Bengal, which tracked maternal deaths and uncovered some unpleasant truths about the healthcare system and other socio-economic factors, could become a model for other states with high maternal mortality rates

22.02.2007 As a result of the training for use of OpenOffice.org, conducted by Metamorphosis Foundation and USAID’s project for successful decentralization - Make Decentralization Work, the Municipality of Makedonska Kamenica started to actively use OpenOffice.org on all computers in the municipal administration.

22.02.2007 Could Zimbabwe be on the brink of a societal breakdown? Doctors and nurses have been on strike for more than a month, and as a teacher strike looms, police violently broke up a political rally Monday.

20.02.2007 The problem lies altogether with the incorrect understanding of the concept of pre-primary education. It is submitted that pre-primary education is in fact not a formal education as is commonly understood but is only a play way education. It is well known fact that the children are sent to play way schools as early as of two years of age and the same is gaining ground.

20.02.2007 For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we should do.Mr Siddharth Varadarajan. express this view in Hindu.

20.02.2007 At least 67 people were killed and 50 injured when two firebombs went off on the New Delhi-Wagah Samjhauta Express just before midnight on Sunday. Most of the dead, including three children, are Pakistani citizens: the first civilians of that country to have died in a terrorist strike on Indian soil.

15.02.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 15 (OneWorld) - Human rights groups spoke out this week, condemning the United States Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, for claiming the crisis in Darfur no longer constitutes genocide.

15.02.2007 India’s Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) used a new system by making local administrators and community organisations – not central bureaucrats – responsible for implementation. What has been TLC’s lasting impact on the women who administered the programme, worked as volunteer teachers and were taught literacy and numeracy skills.

14.02.2007 Indian Public Sector Unit Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is planning to connect 80,000 villages through wireless broadband. The installation of WiMax WiMax will provide broadband access to customers within a radius of 25 kilometers. BSNL's project will further boost the Central government's e-Governance agenda.

14.02.2007 The action to collect signatures for the petition requiring from the Government to provide the same treatment to the citizens reserved for the Aluminium Corporation expanded to Kotor and Niksic, and the citizens can now sign the petition online, at http://www.pravodaznam.info/peticija.htm, reports MANS.

13.02.2007 Following the protests over the huge January electricity bills that came as rather bad surprise to the citizens of Montenegro, the Network for Affirmation of Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) continues the campaign to collect the signatures on a petition to the Government demanding that the citizens get the same treatment regarding their electricity bills reserved to the Aluminium Corporation.

12.02.2007 Erwan Fouere, the EU Ambassador to Macedonia, and Vladimir Milcin, the Executive Director of the Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia (FOSIM), greeted the NGOs at the traditional annual meeting held at Mala Stanica Cultural Centre in Skpoje, on February 8.

12.02.2007 The CURE Foundation finds the February 8 reaction by Emir Malicevic, the Director of Travnik Municipality Cultural Centre, to deny the request by Alter Art association to use its facilities for a concert by Rijeka rock-bank “LET3”.

09.02.2007 The three-year project, “Advanced Training for Local Self-Government Trainers” officially closed with the ceremony of presentation of certificates held yesterday, February 8, at FOSIM offices in Skopje.

09.02.2007 NEW YORK, Feb 9 (OneWorld) - The U.S. Congress is coming under mounting pressure to reject President George W. Bush's request for a budget that would boost spending on the military and its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan while slashing aid to millions of poor at home and abroad.

09.02.2007 Last week, in front of the media, Mjaft! Movement unveiled a concise electronic database containing information about the mayoral candidates for the February 18th local elections in Albania. This webpage will also provide its visitors with information about the elections themselves.