Full Coverage: Governance

31.07.2006 Community forestry in this South Asian nation grew from a seed sown during reforestation of the stripped hills around the capital Kathmandu in the 1960s into a grassroots development movement that today includes some 14,000 users' groups and more than five million people, one-fifth of the population.

31.07.2006 The World Bank, as trustee of the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF) has signed two agreements with two Indian companies to promote technologies that may help revolutionize the building material industry—one utilizes a more energy efficient kiln to produce burnt clay bricks, and the other replaces burnt clay brick with fly ash bricks which are manufactured without the use of thermal energy.

28.07.2006 Organizatat jo-qeveritare “Merhamet”, “Dobrotvor”, La Benovalencija dhe “Caritas” besojnë që Bosnja ka hyrë në një situate që ata shumë kohë më parë e kishin paralajmëruar, përsa i përket pagesës së TVSH-së dhe rishpërndarjen e fondeve.

28.07.2006 The Forum Syd Balkans Programme (FSBP) Montenegro project organizes the Day of Dialogue with the Youth, dedicated to the topic of Youth, Information and Mobility.

28.07.2006 The Minister of Panchayati Raj Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar informed the Lok Sabha today that his Ministry is preparing a mission mode project for e-governance at the Gram Panchayat level under the National e-Governance Plan.

28.07.2006 In a bid to establish a communication channel to support all its e-governance initiatives, the State Government of Haryana is planning to deploy a statewide area network that will connect the state head quarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels.

28.07.2006 Setting aside ideological divisions, observers in India have endorsed the government's decision to quit the Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation, rather than compromise on the issue of the West's agricultural subsides that endanger the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of farmers in India and other developing countries.

27.07.2006 Twenty-five percent of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15 percent in Maharashtra to 42 percent in Jharkhand, with higher rates concentrated in the poorer states.

26.07.2006 The survey NGO Sector in Serbia, conducted by Civic Initiatives and Federation of Serbian NGOs (FENS) at the beginning of the year, clearly demonstrates the deteriorating financial situation of non-governmental organizations in Serbia.

26.07.2006 “Merhamet”, “Dobrotvor”, La Benovalencija and “Caritas” non-governmental organizations believe that Bosnia and Herzegovina has entered a situation they long warned would happen, regarding the collection of VAT and redistribution of funds.

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.”

25.07.2006 El cuerpo policial no sólo capturó a personas que casualmente caminaban por los alrededores de la UES, sino que también cometió una serie de atropellos contra la integridad física y psicológica de los detenidos

25.07.2006 Como era de esperarse, los grandes medios de comunicación nacionales y, obviamente, los transnacionales, trataron de mostrar las divergencias mucho más que la importancia de la consolidación del MERCOSUR, un hito histórico en el proceso de integración.

25.07.2006 No acaba uno de sorprenderse hasta dónde están dispuestos a llegar los sectores neoliberales de Costa Rica, con tal de hacer avanzar su proyecto ideológico de sociedad.

25.07.2006 Istraživanje NVO sektor u Srbiji koje su Gradjanske inicijative i Federacija nevladinih organizacija Srbije (FENS) sprovele početkom ove godine, jasno govori o lošem finansijskom položaju NVO u Srbiji. Dobijeni podaci nedvosmisleno ukazuju da su osnovni finansijeri NVO međunarodne donatorske organizacije (74%), što je dvostruko više u odnosu na sledeći rangirani izvor finansija, a to je lokalna samouprava (36%).

25.07.2006 In the official jargon of current Nepalese politics, armed Maoists who helped topple the world's only Hindu monarchy are no longer ‘rebels'. Neither are they 'terrorists' nor 'anti-government forces'. Instead, they are, to mainstream politicians, 'partners' and 'fellow travellers' in the mission to establish a new Nepali state.

25.07.2006 Even as the global trade talks collapsed in Geneva, India has blamed developed countries for not making substantial cuts in trade-distorting farm subsidies. The Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation now looks set to be suspended for the next few months.

24.07.2006 La pobreza y la inseguridad han continuado creciendo durante los dos años de gobierno del presidente Antonio Saca, cumplidos el 1 de junio, quien ha sufrido una permanente baja en los sondeos de aprobación de su gestión, pasando de 70% a 50%.

24.07.2006 Tutto come previsto. Alla prima uscita internazionale, la biennale fiera aerospaziale di Farnborough in Gran Bretagna, i neo eletti rappresentanti del nuovo Governo non si sono lasciati sfuggire l'occasione per dichiarare che "le risorse destinate alla Difesa vanno aumentate da subito con l'obiettivo di portale all'1% del Pil entro la fine della legislatura". E per lamentare la "riduzione dei finanziamenti al settore Difesa" che "in altri Paesi sono ritenuti un'occasione di sviluppo economico e occupazionale e non una zavorra per le finanze dello Stato". Lo hanno dichiarato, rispettivamente, il sottosegretario alla Difesa, Lorenzo Forcieri e il presidente della commissione Difesa del Senato Sergio De Gregorio. De Gregorio, inoltre, non si è limitato alle esternazioni ma nei giorni scorsi ha votato insieme al centrodestra il parere contrario al Dpef in Commissione Difesa al Senato. Insomma i lupi cambiano il pelo, ma non il vizio. Intanto un'inchiesta di Microfinanza svela che l'Italia è stata la prima fornitrice di armi al Libano tra il 2000 e il 2004 e, dopo Russia e Cina, è il maggior esportatore di materiali bellici in Medio Oriente.
di Giorgio Beretta

24.07.2006 Me anë të një prononcimi, Këshilli për Mbrojtjen e të Drejtave dhe Lirive të Njeriut (KMDLNJ) i ka sugjeruar Kuvendit që Qendrën Protokollare në Gërmi ta shndërroj në Klinikë mjekësore, në të cilën do të trajtoheshin rastet e sëmundjeve të mushkërive, duke marrë parasysh që ky mjedis është shumë i përshtatshëm klimatik për një klinikë të tillë.