Full coverage: Governance

25.05.2006 Medijska organizacija jugoistočne Evrope (SEEMO), mreža urednika, medijskih funkcionera i vodećih novinara iz jugoistočne Evrope sa sjedištem u Beču je užasnuta zatvorskom kaznom na koju je osuđen novinar iz Kumanova, Makedonija. SEEMO je uputio oštro javno pismo najvišim institucijama vlasti u Makedoniji kojim se osuđuje ovakva kazna.

25.05.2006 Vinod Raina, a member of the Central Advisory Board for Education, and activist of the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti, Madhya Pradesh, said that if the government had kept its very first promise in the CMP of allocating 6 per cent of the GDP for education, then no one would have murmured a word of protest over its proposed reservation for OBCs.

25.05.2006 Speakers at a roundtable said growing inequalities between the haves and have-nots, poor governance and human capacity as well as lack of overall quality in institutions are some of the challenges facing Bangladesh.

24.05.2006 In a far-reaching decision, the Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod for inclusion of the mother's name in all documents and certificates to be issued by any department of the State Government.

24.05.2006 Pokret MJAFT! započeo je kampanju “Živimo zeleno”. Jedna od aktivnosti kampanje je karavana koja putuje kroz 10 albanskih gradova od 15. do 25. maja u sklopu koje se organiziraju okrugli stolovi javnosti, lokalnih i središnjih vlasti. Kampanja također uključuje aktivnosti čišćenja kako bi se dalo dobar primjer i podiglo razinu svijesti.

24.05.2006 The MJAFT Movement started the “Live Green” campaign. One of its activities is a caravan that will travel in 10 Albanian cities from 15 to 25 May, organizing discussion forums, between the public and the local and central authorities, and will also take some cleaning initiatives, to give the good example and to raise awareness.

24.05.2006 The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is outraged by a prison sentence handed to a journalist in Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia – FYROM. SEEMO sent a strong public letter condemning the sentence to the highest offices of power in the Republic of Macedonia.

24.05.2006 MPs in Nepal have unanimously approved a landmark plan to drastically curtail the powers of King Gyanendra, including stripping him of control of the army.

24.05.2006 Pakistan's new budget for the coming financial year which is due to be presented on June 5 has prompted a sharp divide between supporters and critics of the country's economic direction.

24.05.2006 The slum population in Dhaka has doubled in a decade to reach 3.4 million in 2006 from only 1.5 million in 1996 following heavy rural-urban migration, according to a recent study.

24.05.2006 India's deficient infrastructure, including roads, power plants and ports, cuts economic growth by as much as two percentage points each year, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.

24.05.2006 Last wednesday, May 17, the Central State Bureau for e-Croatia published, on the occasion of the International Day of Information Society, the results of the Study of Online Availability of Public Services for 2005.

24.05.2006 The legal and sub-legal framework for the preparations of voter lists ahead of the forthcoming local government elections will be the focus of a roundtable discussion today (May 24), jointly organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Albanian Interior Ministry.

23.05.2006 Experts, at a meeting of NGOs in New Delhi, said that if the Indian government had delivered on its promises related to education, as promised by it two years back, it may not have faced the huge country-wide agitation by medicos on reservations.

23.05.2006 Bezbednosno informativna agencija (BIA) mora da dostavi podatke o broju prisluškivanih građana, koje je od nje tražila organizacija Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava, odlučio je Vrhovni sud Srbije.

22.05.2006 En las calles de Caracas las paredes todavía estaban llenas de pintas del pasado referéndum, muchas diciendo vota no (que Chávez no se vaya) y otras vota sí (que se vaya), y muchas diciendo simplemente no, o sí, en letras de todo tamaño. Especialmente me gustó una que decía: di no al yes.
Publica: Revista Pasos del departamento Ecuménico de www.dei-cr.org

22.05.2006 ¿Sabía Usted que esta iniciativa económica es iniciada por el gobierno conservador de Jorge Batlle? Todos conocemos el innegable amor de Batlle por todo lo "Made in USA", incluidos el english, ciertos bloqueos a Cuba, invasiones a Iraq, torturitas por allí, Guantánamos, Abu Graibs, intervención en Colombia, golpes de estado en Haití, Venezuela, etc., etc., etc

22.05.2006 U srijedu 17. 5. Središnji je državni ured za e-Hrvatsku povodom Svjetskog dana informacijskog društva predstavio rezultate Studije dostupnosti javnih usluga na internetu u prošloj godini. Prema toj je studiji do kraja prošle godine građanima putem interneta bilo dostupno oko 38% javnih usluga, a poslovnim subjektima oko 29%. Ovo predstavlja vrlo veliko povećanje u odnosu na prethodnu 2004. kada je tim putem građanima bilo dostupno tek oko 4%, a poslovnom sektoru oko 6% javnih usluga.

22.05.2006 A coalition of Indian civil society organizations are holding a two-day meet in New Delhi to remind the Indian government of the promises that it had made to the people during elections nearly two years back. The organizations are also releasing a report card of the governmentÂ’s performance during these two years.

22.05.2006 President General Pervez Musharraf said that the countryÂ’s economy had stabilised and he was poised to focus on the major issues of reducing poverty, creating jobs and controlling inflation.