Full coverage: Governance

20.06.2006 In a major breakthrough for the campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable, the newly elected state government of Kerala has assured community leaders that the government will take proactive measures against the Coca-Cola bottling plant in south India.

19.06.2006 The Women Associations' Joint Struggle Committee (WAJSC) on Saturday demanded that the government include women in the interim constitution drafting committee formed on Friday.

19.06.2006 The region’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, who have been meeting here for the thirty-sixth regular session of the General Assembly of the OAS, today adopted the Declaration of Santo Domingo on the central theme of the meeting: “Good Governance and Development in the Knowledge-based Society.”

19.06.2006 E-governance enhances the efficacy of citizen and government interaction. This has been made possible by public-private sector partnerships leading to the availability of more affordable and rugged PCs to suit operating conditions in the hinterland and deepening Internet penetration. With the realisation of e-governance projects in India, the time has come to review the role of the public sector as well as private sector to speed up the process of implementation of different projects related to e-governance.

19.06.2006 UNDP will assist the Association of Kosovo Municipalities (AKM) to become member of the regional organization LOGINCEE, through funding a project which was signed on Frida y, 16 June between the UNDP Resident Representative, Frode Mauring and the President of Asociation of Kosovo Municiaplities, Ismet Beqiri.

19.06.2006 An educational support centre, started in the Giri Nagar slums, helps not only differently-abled children but also allows regular school-going children from poor families to find a foothold in society

19.06.2006 The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) along with other organisations and movements plans to hold a National Strategy Meeting in Bhopal on the issue of displacement and development.

19.06.2006 The World Bank has canceled more than seven million dollars in aid to Cambodia after finding evidence of fraud and corruption in three development projects.

19.06.2006 Nepal government and Maoists would frame an interim constitution within two weeks and put in place an ‘‘alternative mechanism’’ before parliament is dissolved as per their agreement, a peace negotiator has said.

19.06.2006 Bahrain's government moved into the hi-tech age yesterday with the launch of Bab Al Bahrain website. It will link all government ministries and help speed up services to citizens via the Internet.

19.06.2006 The World Bank has approved a US$111.5 million credit to strengthen the country's network of about 4,500 Union Parishads to respond to community needs and deliver services through a transparent fiscal transfer system.

19.06.2006 The Indian regulatory system is very much modelled on central planning. It assumes that regulatory agencies can second-guess the sectors where demand is likely as well as the appropriate content of education. Ironically, India met some demands of the IT sector, because a large number of private institutions managed to dodge the regulatory system by offering diplomas rather than degrees

16.06.2006 No one could have thought that the visit of noted Bollywood actor Aamir Khan to the site of twin agitations – the Bhopal gas tragedy as well as the Narmada agitation - in April 2006 in New Delhi would spark off a furor that would refuse to die down even after two months. His comments propelled Gujarat, the land of Mahatma Gandhi, to ban his latest film Fanaa.

16.06.2006 After three days of sustained pressure, Indian agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar met Greenpeace activists at his residence on Friday morning. The minister assured that he would take into account the concerns raised by Greenpeace in the memorandum but will "not influence the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC)" in the upcoming decision on whether to allow large scale field trials of GM brinjal next month.

16.06.2006 Thousands of women in Madhya Pradesh were elected in the last panchayat elections; since then, the story has taken a dismal turn. More than 1,300 women sarpanchs face false charges of corruption. About 50 have been removed from office through forced no-confidence motions. They have been threatened and humiliated. (report from Women's Feature Service / India Together).

16.06.2006 El ex Presidente de Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo, puede ser capturado, confirmó la Sala Tercera de Apelaciones de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, que dejó en firme la orden de aprehensión del ex Mandatario, emitida por el Juzgado Quinto de Instancia Penal el año pasado, a solicitud del Ministerio Público (MP) que lo acusa de malversar 120 millones de quetzales.

15.06.2006 Labris - organizacija za lezbejska ljudska prava iz Beograda, povodom 27. juna, međunarodnog Dana ponosa lezbejki, gej muškaraca, biseksualnih, transeksualnih osoba, organizovaće okrugli sto Odnos države prema istopolno orijentisanim osobama.

15.06.2006 A working meeting Violence Against Women in Post-Conflict Situations: Case Study Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on Tuesday, June 13, in Sarajevo, gathered representatives of Government ministries, Courts, Prosecution offices, women NGOs and international organizations, the Police and Gender Centres in B&H, with the goal to create reccommendations for B&H presentation in Brussels on the issue of violence against women.

15.06.2006 Expatriate Lankan professionals engaged in diverse fields of expertise have been requested to register with the Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Planning Dr. P.B.Jayasundera indicating their availability to lend their service to the Motherland.

15.06.2006 Orissa today unveiled two e-governance roadmaps here to ascertain the present capacity and potential for improvements through information communication technology (ICT) intervention.