Full Coverage: Europe

31.08.2005 Six years after the end of the war, over 450 persons are still considered missing in the Prizren region, announced the Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF).

31.08.2005 The RESIST SAY NO! civic action presented today, August 31, the results of its activities over the last 15 months, dedicated to the prevention of rampaging prices in terrestrial telephone services in Macedonia. They also announced the start of the “53 Percent” campaign, which proposes a new manner of payment of the August phone bills by the citizens.

31.08.2005 Women in Black and the Queer Beograde Collective invite all interested citizens and organizations to join the “Eliminate Violence from Our Walls” action, which has the goal to paint over the graffiti that call for discrimination, fascism, homophobia, xenophobia, violence, racism and other forms of hatred and intolerance.

31.08.2005 Regio-Berater, an NGO focused on the development of tourism in Berat region in Albania, prepared and published a number of tourists guides for the area, with the goal to attract as many visitors as possible.

31.08.2005 Britain's Department for International Development is accused of spending UK aid money on a public relations campaign to pursue a privatisation agenda in Sierra Leone.

31.08.2005 Many councils are demanding an urgent review of new legislation that deprives failed asylum-seekers of benefits - a move which they say can lead to destitution, homelessness and children taken into care.

31.08.2005 Learn lessons from the recent series of European floods, the European Commission is told as it prepares a new directive on flood risk management.

31.08.2005 Climate change will wreak havoc on the UK's marine environment, deepening the decline of cod, threatening the future survival of some sea bird colonies, and causing wide-scale coastal disruption, says a new report.

31.08.2005 United Nations Development Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNDP BiH) has initiated a regional cooperation project to attain gender equality in BiH, Serbia and Montenegro. The Project is based on positive experiences of UNDP’s support to the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Law on Gender Equality implementation activities.

31.08.2005 The aim of the “Lost-Found” booklet is to introduce the citizens to their rights and help them find the right address among the public institutions, so that they could realize their rights and interests. The booklet was officially presented yesterday, August 30, by its authors, Dragan Zelic and Alina Jurjevic.

31.08.2005 Dumping of second hand IT devices is in the agenda of the upcoming Indo-EU summit, going to be held on September 7 in New Delhi.

30.08.2005 The “Professional Reporting on Education” training was developed by the Reuters Foundation for 11 BiH journalists that cover the field of education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The training was sponsored by the OSCE Mission to BiH Education Department and held in the town of Mostar 24-26 August, 2005.

30.08.2005 The CDHRF in Kosovo protests the police action in Peje/Pec, directed against the activists of the Self-Determination Movement.

30.08.2005 The reduction of the budget of the Anti-Corruption Commission by 64% could be understood only as an attempt to impede its work, comment its Members the news of the latest rebalance of the Budget.

30.08.2005 Part of east London will become a no-go zone in September as the capital once again plays unwilling host to the world’s largest arms fair.

30.08.2005 The AIDS Reference Centre (for more information, contact the Centre at 01/4678 243) announced the start of the group counseling work with HIV/AIDS patients, with the goal to increase their capacity to efficiently cope with various emotional and social difficulties related to their condition.

30.08.2005 The Commonwealth of Independent States appears to be near the end of its existence. Even if the organisation survives, it will do so in a significantly different form, reports Sergei Blagov.

30.08.2005 Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has described as "garbage" a European Union election report that raised doubts over the fairness of the country's recent general election.

30.08.2005 The Helsinki Conference, 7-9 September 2005 is the culmination of the Helsinki Process. It is a multi-stakeholder dialogue and networking event for addressing the challenge of making ambitious targets of the world community a reality. 400 representatives of civil society, government, the corporate sector, academia and media are invited to come together to build commitment for the implementation of needed steps towards a safer, more just and democratic world.

30.08.2005 The UK government was on Sunday blasted by development agencies for blowing £700,000 of a £3m relief project meant for Malawi—a country plagued by drought, HIV/AIDS, and a disastrous economy—on hotel bills and meals for U.S. consultants.