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07.11.2006 The award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 jointly to Muhammad Yunus, the recognised creator of the "microcredit" model of finance for the poor shows the Nobel Committee's recognition that peace is not really possible without more equitable development. The most engaging aspect of Muhammad Yunus' contributions lies in his flexible approach to looking for new solutions for meeting the needs of the poor.

06.11.2006 Si è chiusa la due giorni organizzata dal Comitato Italiano per la Sovranità Alimentare dopo aver partecipato alla discussione interna alla FAO durante lo Special Forum insieme ai rappresentanti di oltre 350 organizzazioni di piccoli produttori del sud del mondo. La straordinaria mobilitazione che abbiamo compiuto in questo mese non si ferma alla consultazione della FAO: il nostro lavoro continua con l'obiettivo generale di affermare la Sovranità Alimentare come diritto che deve essere recepito dagli ordinamenti giuridici internazionali. Ripartiamo proprio sui temi che sono stati sollevati durante il Seminario internazionale come la discussione in seno alla Commissione Europea sulla soglia di tolleranza nei cibi e prodotti biologici di transgenico: l'Europa dopo aver chiesto un'improbabile "coesistenza" tra biologico e ogm nelle nostre agricolture, ora cerca di far passare ed accettare l'inevitabile contaminazione delle sementi e delle coltivazioni biologiche introducendo la percentuale dello 0,9 tollerata di ogm nei prodotti bio.
di Sergio Marelli

06.11.2006 Rajakontrollit ovat ehdoton, mutta eivät riittävä keino muuttoliikkeen kestävään hallintaan. Kansainvälisen yhteistyön laajentaminen ja tehostaminen on keskeistä muuttoliikkeen haittojen minimoinnille ja hyötyjen maksimoinnille. Lisää kansainvälistä yhteistyötä tarvitaan erityisesti alueella, jossa yhdistyvät muuttoliike ja kehitys. Näin toteaa tutkija Arno Tanner tuoreessa kirjassaan.

06.11.2006 Keitin, joka kypsentää ruuan ilman tulta, pelkän auringonvalon avulla, ällistyttää yhä naisia Kenian maaseudulla. Laitteella on heidän mielestään lukuisia etuja, mutta silti se herättää myös ennakkoluuloja. Ihmelaite syntyy vaikka pahvilaatikosta, jonka sisäseinät vuorataan alumiinifoliolla.

06.11.2006 The Internet should be “accessible, usable and safe for all,” Nitin Desai, the Special Adviser for the Secretary-General on Internet Governance said at the end of the four-day event in Athens, which dealt with freedom of expression, access, multilingualism, cyber-crime and a host of other issues.

06.11.2006 Despite years of eradication efforts, 2006 has seen a record number of new polio cases in India. Many are questioning the wisdom and efficacy of the WHO-guided vaccination drive .

06.11.2006 Expressing his dissatisfaction over the performance of education sector in Sindh, President General Pervez Musharraf directed the Sindh Chief Minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, and the provincial education minister, DR Hameeda Khuhro to initiate "practical" steps in order to improve education sector in the province.

06.11.2006 In a country as large as India, statistics collected on a national basis frequently generate shocking stories of disparity.Never has this been more clear than in the case of the state of Muslim development in India.

06.11.2006 P. Sainath in his article "Shangri La and sub-Saharan Africa" address the crass inequality on display in our schools runs across all spheres of India's brave new world and he says the schools only mirror this larger reality.

06.11.2006 Internetin pitäisi olla kaikkien saavutettavissa ja sen käytön kaikkien opittavissa ja kaikille turvallista, totesi YK:n pääsihteerin erityisneuvonantaja Nitin Desai Ateenassa pidetyn nelipäiväisen tapahtuman päätteeksi. Tapahtumassa käsiteltiin muun muassa sananvapauteen, internetin saavutettavuuteen, monikielisyyteen ja internetissä tapahtuviin rikoksiin liittyviä aiheita.

06.11.2006 The Right to Food Campaign has succeeded in placing hunger at the centre of development discourse in India. The campaign hopes that this long-running case will culminate in the right to food becoming a fundamental right that can be made justiciable in any court of law in the country. The case and the accompanying campaign have established the importance of the law as facilitator, but the right to food also requires political means and people’s participation

06.11.2006 Like the smell of revolution first thing in the morning. The India Social Forum 2006, the India chapter of the World Social Forum (WSF), alternative to its gigantic capitalist rival, the World Economic Forum held annually at Davos, is set to stir its anti-globalisation, -imperialism, -Bushism, -consumerism, -militarism, -hegemonism, -homogenisation, -racism, -sexism,-Cokeism hyperbole, to offer its version of an alter-globalised world.

03.11.2006 The 2006 Croatian Open Society Index, a survey conducted by Institute for Democracy (iDEMO), was released yesterday in Zagreb. The Index is based on the assessment of openness of society in six major areas: education, economic and entrepreneurship rights and liberties, rule of law, transparency of political processes, rights and freedoms of minorities and marginalized social groups.

03.11.2006 Sadat talousasiantuntijat ja aktivistit kokoontuvat tänä viikonloppuna Kanadan Halifaxiin pohtimaan, miten maailman maaseutualueiden köyhiä voitaisiin auttaa mikroluottojen avulla. Kokous on tärkeä osa nobelpalkitun Muhammad Yunusin kymmenen vuotta sitten aloittamaa maailmanlaajuista mikroluotto -kampanjaa.

03.11.2006 Kiina ja reilut 40 Afrikan valtiota kokoontuvat viikonloppuna Beijingissä. Asialistalla on yhteistyön lisääminen muun muassa terveydenhuollon ja koulutuksen saralla, mutta pääpainon uskotaan kallistuvan taloudellisten suhteiden lujittamiseen.

03.11.2006 Jučer je u Zagrebu predstavljena publikacija Indeks otvorenosti društva Hrvatska 2006. Riječ je o istraživanju provedenom u organizaciji iDEMO - Instituta za demokraciju, koje se temelji na procjeni otvorenosti društva u šest dimenzija: obrazovanje, ekonomske i poduzetničke slobode i prava, medijske slobode, vladavina prava i zakona, transparentnost političkih procesa, sloboda i prava manjina i marginaliziranih društvenih grupa.

03.11.2006 Conceding that the benefits of developmental schemes had not "flowed equitably to the eligible sections among the minorities," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said they should get a fair share

02.11.2006 Talouskasvu vaihtelee Afrikan maasta toiseen huomattavasti, mutta yhteiskunnallisessa kehityksessä on lähes kaikkialla tapahtunut edistystä. Silti köyhien määrä kasvaa edelleen, todetaan Maailmanpankin raportissa. Köyhyyden puolittaminen vuoteen 2015 mennessä YK:n vuosituhattavoitteiden mukaisesti näyttää mahdolliselta useassa Afrikan maassa.

02.11.2006 OneWorld Africa undertook a working visit to Macha to familiarize it self with the operations of a rural Tele-Centre. From Lusaka, Macha is approximately 300 kilometres and is a small rural community of six hundred households in Choma district of the southern province of Zambia. The area has one mission hospital, one High school for girls and four basic schools. The surrounding community is essentially a farming community, with most of the people being emergent farmers.

02.11.2006 Los mineros de varios centros se quedaron con los crespos hechos, pues hasta se habían armado para enfrentar una posible nacionalización que había anticipado el propio presidente Evo Morales. Sin embargo, este plan minero se postergó hasta el próximo año.