Full Coverage: Governance

30.05.2007 Kesaksian aliran dana non-budgeter DKP yang diberikan dalam persidangan korupsi DKP harus diselidiki secara profesional dan independen. Jika terbukti kebenarannya, pihak-pihak yang menerimanya dapat dijerat dengan tindak pidana pemilihan presiden. Demikian salah satu pendapat Pusat Kajian Anti-Korupsi Fakultas Hukum UGM.

29.05.2007 In June 2007, the Ministry of Local Self-Government will start a series of presentations of the Law on Equal Regional Development in the eight statistical regions in Macedonia.

29.05.2007 Rodova ramnopravnost i evropski integracii, bea temata na kursot vo organizacija na Trening institutot za javna administracija (TIPA) i UNDP odrzan na 26. i 27. april.

29.05.2007 Girls in Rajasthan, India’s dry western state, lack the fruits of higher education. There is a strong need for a changeover in the attitude of people toward education of girls, feels Jaipur based activist Kalyan Singh Kothari.

29.05.2007 Human Rights Watch, an independent NGO, released its World Report 2007, disclosing facts on human rights developments in 2006 in more than 75 nations. The report enclosed articles on the European Union, freedom of expression since 9/11, the plight of migrant domestic workers, and a human rights agenda for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

29.05.2007 The Indian government will invest INR 23,000 million to promote e-Governance in rural areas. The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) will cyber link even the remotest villages through one lakh Internet Common Service Centres (CSCs) spread across the country.

29.05.2007 National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR) is organising a Panel Discussion on Millennium Development Goals and Dalits on May 30, 2007 at Conference Hall-II, India International Centre, Lodi Estate, Delhi, India.

29.05.2007 During the Global AIDS Week in India, ActionAid enabled a group of HIV-positive people to share their concerns with parliamentarians in Delhi. The MPs expressed their support for better testing facilities, trained staff and access to treatment and a promise to AIDS activists to bring up the issue in the coming Parliament session.

29.05.2007 Transparency International's recent global survey on corruption in judicial systems says 77% Indians believe the judiciary is corrupt. Widespread bribery and denial of fair and impartial trials have heightened people's perception of corruption.

29.05.2007 India's 93% workforce comprises the unorganised sector and drives one of the fastest growing economy in the world. A first ever study on the working conditions of this sector reveals 44% of its urban migrant workers are in construction and in desperate need for social security.

28.05.2007 Female health care volunteers are giving a new lease of life to mothers in Nepal. Child mortality rates have fallen enormously as similar community based approaches are gaining ground in health care.

28.05.2007 Orissa has initiated e-Pragati, a project that would connect even the remotest Anganwadi workers in the state and publish information on their work profiles and children under their care. The venture will complement the existing e-Shishu plan that cyber connects lakhs of children in state.

28.05.2007 India's Information and Technology Department will provide computer training to children belonging to socially deprived and minority groups. The first initiative has been taken by the city of Chandigarh in association with United Progressive Muslim Front to teach a basic course to the students of Manimajra Madarsa.

28.05.2007 This article articulates the need for funders and aid donors to rework their polices on long-term commitments for supporting national plans on health and education as the services are not getting delivered properly.

28.05.2007 Colonel John Wakefield, popular as ‘John Papa’, is fighting commercial forces in wildlife tourism in the southern state of Karnataka. Hunter turned naturalist, John Papa speaks and acts in favour of retaining nature's fragile eco-system, writes journalist Naren Karunakaran.

28.05.2007 Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), in association with Development and Research Organisation for Nature, Arts and Heritage (DRONAH), held a public meeting in the Indian capital’s neighbouring city Gurgaon, to discuss various ways to clean up the sewage infested Yamuna.

25.05.2007 A study from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reveals that Indian dams are the most polluting. Though dams produce renewable energy they also contribute to global warming by emitting huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere

25.05.2007 A group of about 400 women’s organizations in India has called for noteworthy changes in the draft bill against sexual harassment at the workplace. They have suggested that the bill should be gender-neutral and want to expand the definition of sexual harassment

25.05.2007 During the last two decades the urban slum population of India has increased drastically. According to estimates by the Town and Country Planning Organisation the number of urban slum-dwellers rose from 27.9 million in 1981 to 46.2 million in 1991 and
61.8 million in 2001.

25.05.2007 An Indian NGO, Sahayog, in partnership with other concerned organisations, is holding a round table discussion on maternal health on the International Day of Action for Women's Health on May 28 at Lucknow in northern state of UP.