Full Coverage: International Cooperation

31.07.2006 The Osijecki Zeleni (Osijek Greens) environmental organization called upon the Government of Croatia to use the UN Commission for Peace auspices, and especially its status of candidate country for full EU membership, to make strong and active effort towards an immediate and unconditional stop of war in Lebanon.

31.07.2006 The World Bank, as trustee of the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF) has signed two agreements with two Indian companies to promote technologies that may help revolutionize the building material industry—one utilizes a more energy efficient kiln to produce burnt clay bricks, and the other replaces burnt clay brick with fly ash bricks which are manufactured without the use of thermal energy.

28.07.2006 Setting aside ideological divisions, observers in India have endorsed the government's decision to quit the Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation, rather than compromise on the issue of the West's agricultural subsides that endanger the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of farmers in India and other developing countries.

26.07.2006 The U.N.'s World Food Programme has only raised 17 percent of the 5.4 million U.S. dollars it says it needs to buy and deliver rice and fortified wheat to 225,000 villagers in 10 districts.

26.07.2006 Lakhs of the world’s poorest farmers, many of them in India, will remain shackled to the existing system of rigged rules and double standards in trade rules following the suspension of the Doha round of development trade talks, says a press release by British charity Oxfam.

25.07.2006 After the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva, ActionAid, an international development agency, sees new opportunities to create a people-friendly future for fair trade. Read press release and a backgrounder from ActionAid India on the failed WTO talks.

25.07.2006 Even as the global trade talks collapsed in Geneva, India has blamed developed countries for not making substantial cuts in trade-distorting farm subsidies. The Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation now looks set to be suspended for the next few months.

20.07.2006 An independent commission launched in New Delhi aims to get leaders of Asia-Pacific countries to stand up and take note of the daunting challenge posed by the spread of HIV/AIDS - including increased poverty and development setbacks.

20.07.2006 After securing sympathy and support for fighting terrorism from the G-8 grouping of the world's wealthiest countries in St. Petersburg, the Indian government is coming under pressure to harden its response to last week's Mumbai serial bombings, which killed 200 people.

19.07.2006 As the death toll in the earthquake and tsunami that struck Java island's southern coast crossed the 500 mark, officials admitted to having been caught by surprise, despite the elaborate precautions taken after earthquake-triggered monster waves smashed into Aceh province in northern Sumatra in December 2004.

19.07.2006 Chewang Norphel has attempted to generate water and vegetation in barren Ladakh by simply creating artificial glaciers using stone embankments and a few hundred metres of iron pipe

17.07.2006 Indians must rid themselves of the traditional mindset that all higher education, especially professional education should be affordable to all,” said Symbiosis International Education Centre Founder-Chancellor S B Mujumdar, at a conference on ‘Autonomy in Higher Education — Regulatory and Legal Issues’ organised by Delhi-based Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI).

14.07.2006 With a significant increase in the flow of migrants -- both legal and illegal -- over the last few years, the United States is heading towards a demographic milestone: a 300 million population before the end of this year, rising from its current 298 million.

14.07.2006 The series of eight bomb blasts that killed close to 200 train commuters in the western port city of Mumbai, has impacted a peace process between India and Pakistan.

11.07.2006 Stepping up its efforts for disaster mitigation and relief, the United
Nations announced an agreement with the Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company to provide portable satellite terminals, a major
factor in rescue operations.

11.07.2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for next week’s
Group of Eight Summit in Russia to focus on what energy security means for
people living in developing countries and also to address the environmental
consequences of energy consumption.

11.07.2006 The Prishtina Summer University started its work last Sunday, July 9, and will last until July 28, 2006. Out of over 2000 candidates, 800 students and 30 lecturers from Kosovo and abroad were selected to take part in the Sixth Summer University.

11.07.2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has sent a letter to the G8 +5 leaders (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa) urging them to reach an agreement in the Doha round trade talks when they meet in St. Petersburg, Monday, July 17. The letter was addressed to each of the leaders and sent to them on Friday evening.

10.07.2006 A great international protest against the planned construction of two LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) terminals near Trieste were held on July 1 in this North Adriatic city. The two terminals are to be located in the open sea, near the sear boundary with Slovenia, while the other will be built inland.

10.07.2006 In Asian societies, the issue of trafficking in women was addressed about a century ago. Although The International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade, signed in Paris on May 18, 1904, was the foremost international document to deal with the issue of trafficking in women, later, one by one, other remarkable efforts were also adopted.