Full Coverage: Governance

31.05.2004 The world's poor are losing out to rich countries' "war on terror," warns a report released Friday in Ottawa. The Reality of Aid is published annually by an international network of NGOs. This year's edition concludes that "current attempts to divert resources ... to pay for donors' security interests are the most serious expression of the endemic problem of aid resources being hijacked to fund rich country priorities."

30.05.2004 Nekoliko hiljada gradjana predvodjenih clanovima redakcije lista Dan obucenim u crno, sa logotipom tog dnevnika i znakom mete stampanim na majicama, prosla je veceras u mimohodu sa podgorickog Trga Republike do ulice 13. jula u kojoj je ubijen direktor lista Dusko Jovanovic.

29.05.2004 «Les systèmes judiciaires des Amériques sont détournés de leur rôle et sont employés pour harceler les défenseurs des droits humains, ce qui les gêne pour remplir leur mission au service des droits humains», a déclaré Amnesty International alors que l'Union européenne (UE) et les États d'Amérique latine se réunissent à Mexico pour discuter des questions de cohésion sociale et d'intégration régionale.

29.05.2004 Nesreca je za Crnu Goru zato sto sve ovo lici i podsjeca na Srbiju i vrijeme diktature Slobodana Milosevica. Stvari se odvijaju po istom scenariju - rekao je Zivkovic. On je podsjetio da je u Crnoj Gori preko 20 nerasvijetljenih ubistava visokih zvanicnika, funkcionera MUP koji su likvidirani na isti ili slican nacin na podgorickom plocniku.

28.05.2004 Canada's second-largest union has filed a formal complaint with the UN's International Labour Organization against Newfoundland's Tory government. The National Union of Public and General Employees believes Premier Danny Williams violated international labour standards during last month's public sector strike.

28.05.2004 This week on the campaign trail, Prime Minister Paul Martin repeated his old pledge to boost funding to cities and towns. But the union representing 120,000 Canadian municipal workers says big business - not communities - would be the big winner. CUPE says new Liberal money for infrastructure would be tied to controversial public-private partnerships (P3s).

28.05.2004 Celnici pet opozicionih partija ponovili su na sinocnjem, cetvrtom, protestu na centralnom podgorickom trgu zahtjeve za raspisivanje vanrednih parlamentarnih izbora koje ce organizovati tehnicka vlada u kojoj nece biti premijer Milo Djukanovic. Lider SNP-a Predrag Bulatovic sinoc nije saopstio konkretne zahtjeve vlastima, iako je to najavio na proslonedjeljnom mitingu.

27.05.2004 Ontario's Liberal government has lofted options for "a major for-profit takeover of virtually all public institutions," a coalition of NGOs and unions warned today. At a Queen's Park press conference, the groups revealed that the new Ministry for Public Infrastructure Renewal has produced a discussion paper that contemplates "unprecedented" privatization.

27.05.2004 Join Friends of the Earth in lobbying to ensure that US companies disclose basic information about their operations overseas. Lack of disclosure has allowed some U.S. companies to conceal irresponsible or disgraceful behavior, such as treating workers poorly, harming the environment and collaborating with oppressive governments that violate human rights.

27.05.2004 Maintenant que les défusionnistes ont gagné la première manche, la bataille est bien engagée pour démanteler les grandes villes créées par le précédent gouvernement du Parti Québécois. Seule l’apathie légendaire des électeurs municipaux pourrait sauver la mise.

27.05.2004 Le Canada que veut Le Conseil des Canadiens est un pays dans lequel nos élus s’engagent à :

* Maintenir notre souveraineté
* Protéger notre eau potable
* Étiqueter nos aliments
* Sauvegarder le système public de soins de santé
* Mettre fin à une nouvelle course à l’armement

26.05.2004 Imagine this scenario. A government is criticized for wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars. It promises to address the scandal ... but days before calling an election, it lets all the culprits off the hook. Of course, that's not quite how Canada's sponsor-gate has played out. But economist Jim Stanford is talking about a different scandal.

26.05.2004 Vo organizacija na Megjunarodniot institut za demokratija od Strazburg i Sobranieto na Republika Makedonija, od 2 do 4 juni 2004 godina vo Sobranieto na Republika Makedonija ke se odrzi Tretata Konferencija na zeni-parlamentarki na Jugoistocna Evropa, posvetena na “Zenite vo mediumite, trgovijata so zeni i diskriminacijata”.

25.05.2004 Canada's federal election campaign opens in the wild wake of a government accounting scandal. Most voters sense that this is not only about the transparent recording of how money was spent. But let's make the question explicit: If financial accountability is the tip ... what's the iceberg?

25.05.2004 Paul Martin has one campaign plank in this Canadian federal election: He isn't Stephen Harper. Martin says he is the peace candidate, while the Tory leader is the war candidate. He says Harper is a threat to public health care, while Martin's Liberals are medicare's saviour. More remarkably still, he is saying this with a straight face.

25.05.2004 Hari Holkeri, the Finish diplomat who headed the UN Mission in Kosovo, resigned today from his post which he held since July 2003. Holkeri said to the press that his resignation was motivated by personal health reasons.

25.05.2004 As a Scotland Yard probe begins into Friday's bomb attack on a shrine in northeast Bangladesh that killed three and injured over 70 people including the British High Commissioner, Opposition parties are accusing the government of harboring Islamic militants.

25.05.2004 Zimbabwe police on Friday arrested Bornwell Chakaodza, editor of the independent weekly Standard newspaper, and one of his reporters, for the second time in three days, his staff said.

25.05.2004 Malawi's new president, Bingu wa Mathurika, has been sworn in amid threats of a court challenge to the election results by opposition parties.

24.05.2004 Politicians dream of being all things to all people, and Paul Martin is surely giving it a good try. In his role as heroic deficit slayer, Martin folded health care funding for provinces into the Canadian Health and Social Transfer - instituting massive cuts, gutting Ottawa's clout to lead medicare into the twenty-first century. Now he's pitching himself as medicare's savior-in-waiting.