Full Coverage: International Cooperation

30.03.2007 "In the last 10 years, Albania has made impressive progress, and the tasks and work of the OSCE Presence have substantially evolved as well," said Ambassador Pavel Vacek, the Head of Presence on Tuesday March 27 in 10th anniversary of OSCE Presence in Albania.

27.03.2007 The citizens of Macedonia in need of information about processes in the European Union and Macedonian accession can get the required information at the newly established MK-EU Centre, opened yesterday in Skopje.

27.03.2007 Struga, Macedonia, hosted 36 young people from four countries, March 16-25, 2007, who discussed the equal rights and opportunities and active participation of youth in civil society.

23.03.2007 China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and the European Union will attend as observers the 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in New Delhi on April 3 and 4.

23.03.2007 Provoked by the recent statements by the Speaker of the Sabor (Croatian Parliament) and the Prime Minister that the Government doesn’t plan to call for a referendum on Croatian entry into the NATO alliance, as well as the general communication strategy adopted by the Government on that issue, the Peace Studies Centre and Peace, Non-Violence and Human Rights Centre from Osijek prepared an open letter to Croatian political leadership.

22.03.2007 Anyone who knows even a little bit about school education in India knows that it is largely about exclusion. Only a tiny minority of children in our country get anything resembling a decent schooling - the rest are either excluded altogether, or provided very poor quality education with weak infrastructure and inadequate pedagogic attention, which in turn encourages high rates of dropout.

21.03.2007 The new free trade agreements being signed up between rich and poor countries are proving far more damaging to the poor than anything envisaged within WTO talks, Oxfam said in a report

21.03.2007 Remittances – money sent home by immigrant workers abroad – are hugely beneficial to many countries across the world.India is the world’s top receiver of remittances. Flows into the country have grown dramatically in recent years, touching US$ 17.4 billion in 2003, up from some US$2 billion a year in the late 1980s.

21.03.2007 India has been remarkably successful in boosting economic growth: its economy has grown at about 6 percent per annum since the 1990s, with growth accelerating to 9 percent over the past two years. Absolute poverty has been cut in half, and the country seems set to achieve middle income status soon.

20.03.2007 “Our Future – European Integration” (OFEI) is an exchange programme and a network of young people from Kosovo, Serbia and The Netherlands.

20.03.2007 OWSA is organisin a half-day consultation on Climate Change that is being held in our premises on the 23rd March, 2007. The consultation is intended to facilitate deliberations on the topic - Climate Change: Where are we and where do we go?

20.03.2007 Nandigram in West Bengal has emerged as the lightning rod for criticism of the government’s economic policies. While previous clashes here over the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have killed at least seven people including a policeman, the events of March 14 put a halt to the West Bengal government’s industrialisation bid and has forced a re-think at the national level.

15.03.2007 Billed by one financial paper as the first step in a Global Indian Takeover, the acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steel major Corus by the Tata group is as much about upper-crust India's new nationalism as it is about corporate strategy. Tata's victory in the final head-to-head auction against Brazil's Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) is undoubtedly a major event in the country's corporate history.

06.03.2007 The Republic of Croatia and EU signed yesterday, March 5, 2007, the Joint Inclusion Memorandum (JIM). The JIM defines the strengths and weaknesses of social policies designed to fight poverty, as well as challenges and priorities of future social policies.

06.03.2007 THE UN has identified violence against women and girls "the most pervasive" human rights violation that we know today. Statistics from the world over, including the Asia and Pacific region, paint a clear picture of the social and health consequences of violence against women.