Full Coverage: Governance

30.11.2005 Between November 22 and 24, a shipment of six truckloads of corn returned to Croatia, originally exported to Hungary, to a known buyer, by Agragold Company from Zagreb. The Hungarians returned the corn accompanied with a report by a Budapest laboratory which states that the shipment contained genetically modified corn, report Osijek Greens.

29.11.2005 Las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras se encontraban este lunes en alerta ante la amenaza de una crisis pos electoral, luego que el oficialista Partido Nacional (PN) desconoció el triunfo del candidato presidencial liberal Manuel Zelaya, proclamado por el presidente del Tribunal Electoral, informó a la AFP una fuente militar que pidió el anonimato.

29.11.2005 Nepal's oldest community radio station was shut down by government officials Sunday, and many other stations have switched to broadcasting "soft news." The move is making it difficult for the country's illiterate population to get news about last week's key agreement between Maoist rebels and the country's political parties, to which the king has not yet responded.

29.11.2005 Si è aperta a Montreal la Conferenza sui cambiamenti climatici per la definizione di una linea d'azione per il dopo 2012, data di scadenza degli obiettivi del protocollo di Kyoto. Le speranze vacillano di fronte all'atteggiamento di chiusura degli Stati Uniti. Almeno nei toni è diversa la posizione britannica. Per richiamarli alla grande reponsabilità, il Wwf ha rivolto un appello chiedendo l’inizio delle trattative. Il ritardo dell’Italia sullo Scambio delle Emissioni viene criticato anche da Legambiente che teme che vengano boicottati i negoziati. L’Italia, infatti, ha visto crescere le proprie emissioni del 12% circa rispetto ai livelli del 1990, allontanandosi di oltre il 18% dal suo obiettivo di riduzione (-6,5%). Per non incorrere nelle sanzioni che verranno stabilite, dovrà ridurre di quasi un quinto le sue emissioni attuali. Greenpeace ha installato un orologio di vetro alto 4 metri per ricordare ai delegati che non c'è più tempo da perdere.

29.11.2005 The first women's university of south Punjab formally has started functioning, initially with four disciplines, at the Government College for Women in Multan. In a ceremony held at the girl's college, the university formally launched its post-graduate academic activities for women.

29.11.2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that he is "deeply disappointed" that Myanmar's authorities have extended the detention under house arrest of democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for another six months.

29.11.2005 An effort to regulate drug prices in India, through measures “other than price control”, has been wasted. A task force set up under Supreme Court directions to find ways to reduce prices of life-saving drugs, could not come up with many viable solutions.

29.11.2005 Asnjë shoqëri e civilizuar nuk mund të marrë frymë pa ligje, por kur ato nuk zbatohen bëhen të pavlera dhe pengojnë në funksionimin e një shoqërie demokratike, që në themel të saj ka respektimin e të drejtave të njeriut. Përvoja ndërkombetare ka treguar se shtetet të cilat janë bazuar në normat e të drejtës, kanë ngritur në një shkallë më të lartë demokracinë dhe shtetin ligjor.

28.11.2005 The Matija Gubec civic initative for resistance to the space for political discretion, came out with public reaction on the ruling adopted by the Constitutional Court to abolish the Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Public Gathering.

28.11.2005 The right to education bill that will be tabled sometime in the coming year, has the potential to bring about a significant transformation in elementary education in India.It attempts to make effective a child’s right to free and compulsory education by focussing on the state’s obligation to provide schools of “equitable” quality.

28.11.2005 Bangladesh govt planning to introduce 'unified education system' at the secondary level.The system that intends to replace the existing compartmentalized methods of education---- students are allowed to take up science, commerce and humanities subjects at class nine--- with an unified education system at the secondary level from the next academic year.

28.11.2005 In a move that could shut down one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plant in India permanently, the Kerala government has notified the area as "over-exploited" where one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plants is located in southern India. The government seeks to regulate the use of groundwater due to scarcity.

27.11.2005 As official government policy, France refuses to acknowledge racism as even existing in the country and prohibits the collection of racial data or organizing along racial lines. But policies like these--ostensibly to keep the country race-blind--have only served to intensify the country's race problem, argues race scholar Clarence Lusane.

26.11.2005 Il ministro delle Attività Produttive Claudio Scajola, durante la propria visita al centro ricerche dell’Enea a Frascati ha affermato come sia intenzione del governo investire sul nucleare, al fine di colmare il gap fortissimo che abbiamo sciaguratamente accumulato. In virtù di questo proposito ha annunciato l’assunzione di ingegneri nucleari da parte dell’Enea ed ha rivelato che fra poche settimane Ansaldo Energia darà vita ad Ansaldo Nucleare. Queste affermazioni, oltre a lasciare basiti, poiché rilasciate dal ministro di un paese che tramite referendum ha già espresso il proprio rifiuto nei confronti delle centrali nucleari, vengono portate avanti con l’occhio miope di chi finge d’ignorare il problema dell'inquinamento nucleare ed i gravissimi danni da esso indotti sulla nostra salute e su quella dell'intero ecosistema - di Marco Cedolin

25.11.2005 On the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Office of the Kosovo Prime Minister opened its Gender Equality Office.

25.11.2005 Several women NGOs from Skopje, in partnership with government ministries, launched the Don’t Hide It, Report it campaign earlier today, organized under the auspices of the 16 Days of Activism global campaign.

25.11.2005 More than 55 organisations under the umbrella of Jan Caravan, Peole's Caravan, have decided to hold rally in Indian capital New Delhi on 10th December to draw the attention of the Indian government towards pro-people policies at the forthcoming WTO ministerial to be held in Hong Kong.

25.11.2005 Nacionalna zaklada za razvoj civilnog drustva i Institut za medjunarodne odnose, u suradnji s Uredom UNDP-a u Hrvatskoj, organizirali su u četvrtak 24.11.2005. u Zagrebu okrugli stol na temu: “Civilno društvo i država – partneri u pregovorima o pristupanju EU?”. Cilj je bio poticanje rasprave o ulozi organizacija civilnog društva u procesu pregovora i o mogućnostima uspostave učinkovitih mehanizama komunikacije i savjetovanja s građanima u tom procesu.

25.11.2005 This report provides guidelines and case studies to developing countries on legislation for data privacy, e-applications and prevention of cyber crime; with practical examples on how some countries have addressed legislation on the prevention of cyber crime.

25.11.2005 Reporters Without Borders today urged Commonwealth heads of government to see that people killing journalists because of their work were duly punished, so the Commonwealth could become “a true home of democracy and freedom.” Many journalists have been killed in the south Asian region simply for doing their duty.