Full Coverage: Governance

30.04.2007 The oneVillage Foundation has aligned with the International Free and Open Source Software Foundation (iFOSSF) for empowering developing nations in Information, Communication and Technologies (ICTs) by initiating a project “Telecenter Portals and Applications." The first project will be launched in Ghana.

30.04.2007 A Bushman spokesperson has appealed to the Indian government to respect an order of the Indian Supreme Court that has asked for closure of the Andaman Trunk Road that will harm the Jarawa tribes.

27.04.2007 Initiated by the affiliates of Global Campaign for Education (GCE) the Global Action Week aims to make sure that governments ensure the right to free and quality primary education, to highlight its violation inspite of government promises, local meetings to know the reality of the accessibility of education and create human chains around the world for education.

25.04.2007 The MULTIMEDIA Performing Arts Centre from Skopje, together with the Museum – Stip, Stip Municipal Council, the Foundation for Local Development, “Sergej Mihajlov” Music School, and “Zaedno” (Together) NGO, will organize the “ART GENERATOR” Urban Arts Festival in Stip, April 26-29, 2007.

23.04.2007 Serbian NGOs demand from the competent authorities to act and discover the perpetrators, the background the people who ordered the attempt on the life of Dejan Anastasijevic, journalist at “Vreme” weekly, on the night of April 14.

20.04.2007 The findings of the survey done by WHO in six states of India, distinctly states that health costs are out of the reach of the poor and made them more vulnerable to ill-health. In fact for many, poverty has been exacerbated due to debt and selling of assets for the meeting of health expenses.

20.04.2007 Food security can ensure physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food for a healthy life. But startling food insecurity and poor health indicators make it essential to bring these issues to the fore. Indian Social Institute intends to build capacities for achieving food security and ensuring healthy living through a 2 day workshop on Food Security and Health Promotion: Approaches and Strategies" from April 27-28, 2007 within its premises at Indian Social Institute, 10 Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003.

20.04.2007 KRITI: a development research, praxis and communication team will be releasing a Hindi version of their publication From Thought to Action: Strategies to combat Violence against Women, entitled Aurato ke Khilaf Hinsa: Dhrishtikon aur Rannitiyan at the Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre, on the 4th of May 2007 from 6.30 pm onwards. The book shares findings from an in-depth field-based study and suggests possible interventions.

18.04.2007 Last Friday, April 13, approximately 50,000 Albanians responded to the Prime Minister’s attacks on the media through a peaceful manifestation in “Skenderbej Square”, thereby marking the largest manifestation ever witnessed in Albania since the rise of the pluralist system. This manifestation was not coordinated by political parties; rather, it was jointly organized by civil society and the media.

17.04.2007 Indian communities facing environmental and health damages due to Coca-Cola’s bottling operations in Kerala plan to protest and question the company's shareholders and management at its annual general meeting at Wilmington, Delaware, US.

17.04.2007 Kerala has emerged as the top performing state while West Bengal finds itself in the bottom five (with Bihar in the last spot) in an official survey on the health of elementary education in the country in 2005-06. The District Information System for Education data, compiled by government think tank NUEPA, took access, infrastructure, teacher and outcome indicators into account to compute the Educational Development Index

16.04.2007 The Central Information Commission (CIC) on Friday directed the Department of Bio-technology (DBT) to make public the data generated from the tests carried out with genetically engineered crops by agro-biotech companies. This RTI is in response to an appeal petition filed by Greenpeace.

16.04.2007 Balraj Puri from the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) says that terrorism in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has dwarfed the human rights of orphans, widows, handicapped, weaker sections, displaced persons and many others. He says that it is a high time that people took notice of these rights also.

16.04.2007 Anti-poverty agency ActionAid is calling on central government to prevent the state from violating environmental guidelines and denying the voices of local people in a hearing on projects proposed by Korean steel giant POSCO which are set to displace seven villages.

16.04.2007 The Union for the Centre for Youth and Independent Culture which includes Zagreb based organizations working in the are of youth and independent culture, announced, last Wednesday, April 11, the opening of the Temporary Illegal Youth and Culture Centre, during the Operation City: Jedinstvo manifestation that will take place at former factory “Jedinstvo”, April 26-29, 2007.

16.04.2007 An Indian NGO, Centre for Youth Development and Activities (CYDA), plans to organize a 3-day international conference - Youth & Democracy in South Asia, in the West Indian city of Pune.

16.04.2007 Are Indian newspapers loosing objectivity? Darius Nakhoonwala examines the muted reaction of newspapers to an important statement by the Indian Prime Minister regarding the judiciary. The PM’s comment on the role of the judiciary was apparently not reflected in all the newspapers.

16.04.2007 Challenges to a functioning administrative justice system need to be tackled to help protect individual rights and the rule of law, concludes a new report from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

11.04.2007 Prof Prabhat Patnaik provides a simple model of the current pattern of India’s economic growth process, to reckon with the fact that even an accelerating growth rate may leave the unemployment problem completely unresolved, or even accentuated, as labour productivity rises at a faster rate than investment

11.04.2007 At its session of April 4, 2007, the Government of Croatia adopted the draft-Law on Confirmation of Kyoto Protocols to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The draft was prepared by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Spatial Planning and Construction.