Full Coverage: Europe

31.01.2007 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) and the Creative Development Foundation (FKR) organized a campaign for collection of support letters for establishment of computerization budget for B&H system of education.

31.01.2007 The Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonian (FOSIM) and the Ministry of the Interior signed an agreement for cooperation, which obligates FOSIM to supply technical assistance of total value of 40,000 EUR to the Ministry.

31.01.2007 There will be one certainty after the Racial and Religious Hatred Act comes into law next month: the first case to test the new law will be brought by one religious group against the other, says Padraig Reidy.

31.01.2007 The “I Love Pula!” civic initiative organized a protest walk, on January 20, 2007, to express its opposition of construction and development works in Pula’s public parks.

31.01.2007 As New York came under attack on September 11 2001, janitor William Rodriguez bravely remained in the North Tower to help save lives. In February he is touring the UK to talk about his experiences and on why the families of victims and survivors are unhappy about the way 9/11 is being used to justify the "war on terror".

31.01.2007 Campaigners are to protest outside of the French embassy in London on Friday to urge the government to stop representatives of the Zimbabwean government attending a forthcoming Franco-African summit.
* Zimbabwe organisation faces charges after pro-democracy church service

30.01.2007 The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania-CRCA, a major children rights organisation, announced today that it has started the procedures to open a branch of the organisation in Prishtina, the capital of UN administered province of Kosovo(a).

30.01.2007 Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged Albanian parliamentarians today to ensure that media regulation takes into account the abundance of channels that digital television transmission enables as they prepare licencing regulations.

30.01.2007 In 1996, a group of students, with financial assistance from the Montenegro Open Society Institute, started the work on the “Juventas” Youth Magazine. This initiative later transformed into the OKC Juventas (Youth Cultural Centre). The exact date was January 29, 1996.

30.01.2007 from It's the Planet, Stupid! blog:
The climate 'pigs' really are flying. The deniers haven't gone away but they're becoming marginalised. It looks like the year things are going to really start to happen.

30.01.2007 On 26 February Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Miller will introduce the second reading of the Public Demonstrations Repeal Bill, an attempt to claw back some of the rights to protest lost after the enactment of the Serious Organised Crime and Policing Act in 2005. She talks to Padraig Reidy.

30.01.2007 It took 44 activists, 100 metres of rope, and 500 square metres of fabric for Greenpeace to hoist a message for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is meeting in Paris this week.

30.01.2007 The British MP who founded the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group announced today that he will not seek re-election, in order to concentrate on campaigning for a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
+ Challen's website

29.01.2007 B&H Delegation, led by the Secretary of Ministry of Security Bakir Dautbasic travelled to Brussels, yesterday, January 28, to start the second three-day round of negotiations with the European Commission on relaxed visa regime and readmission.

29.01.2007 Last Thursday, January 25, the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities was promoted at the Members of Parliament Club in Skopje.

29.01.2007 In September 2006, the forest industry giant UPM, based in Finland, announced its plan to get rid of its remaining 300 forestry workers. They and their union, the Wood and Allied Workers' Union, rejected the plan arguing that it is bad for both the company and its forests, let alone the workers themselves.

29.01.2007 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog :
Construction begins for passive solar conservatory farmhouse heating system.

29.01.2007 Actors for Refugees, a network of professional performers dedicated to drawing public attention to the harsh realities faced by individuals who come to the UK to seek refuge, are currently touring their new production, Asylum Monologues, around the UK, and will be performing at the School of Oriental and African Studies on February 6.

29.01.2007 Get ready for Fairtrade Fortnight, 26 February–11 March, which will try to exceed last year's score of more than 10,000 events, from fashion shows and football matches, to concerts and exhibitions, with tastings of Fairtrade products in churches, mosques, synagogues, schools, universities, supermarkets and workplaces.
+ 50 Reasons To Buy Fair Trade

29.01.2007 from Christian Aid:
Christian Aid is looking for volunteers to join the longest ever protest march in UK history.