Full Coverage: Politics

26.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 26 (OneWorld) - Despite a 46-year effort to eradicate poverty, hunger remains a problem in many parts of the world, says a new report arguing that a re-think of political priorities in the United States and elsewhere could boost efforts to get food to hungry people around the globe.

26.07.2006 The Indian Cabinet has approved key amendments to the landmark Right to Information that will restrict citizens’ access to ‘notings’ made by government officials on all files except those related to social and development projects. Angry activists say that such a measure will “take the life out of the law.”

24.07.2006 The latest monitoring report, published under the "Media Mirror" monitoring programme, says the media chose sides and endorsed single political option.

21.07.2006 The Environmental Protection Bureau, with assistance of the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), prepared the draft-National Environmental Protection Programme, under the auspices of the 2003 Environmental Capacity Building Programme.

07.07.2006 The new Sobranie (Macedonian parliament), according to the unofficial results of the vote of two days ago, will have 33 women MPs, reports Savka Todorovska, President of the Union of Women Associations of Macedonia - SOZM.

05.07.2006 President Yoweri Museveni has offered the leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) an amnesty for crimes committed in northern Uganda, but the International Criminal Court (ICC), which indicted him, insists the insurgent must be arrested.

04.07.2006 Dans une entrevue accordée à Alternatives, le porte-parole de l’Armée zapatiste de libération nationale (EZLN), le sous-commandant Marcos, analyse l’opération de terreur contre les habitants d’Atenco et dresse les perspectives de l’Autre campagne à la veille des élections mexicaines.