Full coverage: Governance

08.08.2007 Millions of people across Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Assam have been marooned or rendered homeless during the three-week-long downpour. Authorities are fear of waterborne diseases could spread.

08.08.2007 Pakistan has a bilateral trade of two billion US dollars with
Afghanistan. But the volume of clandestine business between the two countries is estimated to be more than ten billion dollars every year. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan profit from huge bribes paid out to ensure that the illegal trade continues.

07.08.2007 The National Secretariat of Public Security, Brazil, has selected a consortium providing communication and wireless security information – including voice, data, video and images – for the Pan American Games, held in Río de Janeiro. The communications infrastructure will be used for the city once the games are over.

07.08.2007 A recent publication by Save the Children UK says the effects of global warming will hit the most children in developing countries. The report hopes to make public feel the scale of threat faced by future generations that is often left unacknowledged.

07.08.2007 A recent workshop by the Nepal based Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) has helped women in advancing leadership skills to engage in post-conflict efforts and governance.

07.08.2007 Experts across the world will get together to debate and assess water challenges of the 21st century at the global World Water Week 2007, to be held at Stockholm from 12-18 August.

07.08.2007 The north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh planted 10.5million trees on a single day, on 31 July 2007. The campaign was led by the Forest Department to raise awareness and increase tree cover.

07.08.2007 A new study in the journal ‘Nature’ says global warming due to human action is leading to changing precipitation patterns. Highly sophisticated computer models have been used to predict and confirm the change of weather – with heavy rains in some areas and severe drought in others.

07.08.2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first-ever atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima as a “powerful reminder” to halt nuclear proliferation and to make the world a safer place.

06.08.2007 In the Indian western state of Rajasthan, a young woman leader is doing her best to ensure that people benefit from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which assures of the right to employment among eligible rural people.

06.08.2007 Academic Conferences Limited is organising the 3rd International Conference on e-Government on September 27-28 2007 at Montreal, Canada. The conference invites researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress and conceptual advances in any branch of e-Government.

06.08.2007 The Indian state of Rajasthan will now have a live phone-in programme in its community radio channel – Aapno FM Radio Bansthali. The project has been a joint venture of Bansthali Vidhyapeeth and UNICEF.

06.08.2007 The administration of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), in Varanasi district of north Indian state, Uttar Pradesh, has decided to ban soft drinks from 1 August 2007 in the campus. The ban gives a boost to a movement against the Coca-Cola bottling plant in village Mehdiganj in Varanasi district.

06.08.2007 Human rights organisation Amnesty International will observe, 9 August 2007 as an International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and support their demands for the right to full implementation of The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. This act will allow the tribals to lead a life free from threat of evictions and displacement.

06.08.2007 Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar after her release from a Madhya Pradesh jail has said that the adivasis have become the victims of a conspiracy and she has vowed to carry on with the agitation to demand a just rehabilitation for the tribals.

03.08.2007 Asha Parivar and Association for India's Development are organising a two-day workshop - Democracy in India - on August 25–26 2007, at Princeton University, New Jersey. The workshop will focus on the struggles in India between global, national and local forces of dominance and people's needs, aspirations and power.

03.08.2007 Delhi based NGO, Chintan which works at the grassroots with the urban poor, waste picking children and adults has inaugurated its first plastic recycling centre in Delhi. The objective is to set up a replicable well designed recycling depot and build the capacity of the informal sector.

03.08.2007 Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) Institute for Gender, Governance & Leadership is organising its 8th Training on Making Governance Gender Responsive (MGGR) on November 12-19, 2007 in Manila, Philippines. The objective is to understand the issues related to gender and governance.

03.08.2007 Gorkhapatra Corporation, government-owned media group in Nepal, has dismissed forty-nine journalists who were working there for the past 11 years. The President of Federation of Nepalese Journalists condemned the decision which is based on the political interest of the management.

02.08.2007 Pakistani experts are of the view that when it comes to climate change, population matters in countries of South Asia, Africa and the Arab world. As people struggle to survive in poor countries, environmental degradation is more pervasive.