Full coverage: Development

31.05.2004 Si celebra oggi, 31 maggio, la "Giornata mondiale senza tabacco" promossa dall'Organizzazione mondiale della sanità che quest'anno ha come tema "Tabacco e povertà". Il tabacco uccide ogni anno 4,9 milioni di persone (una ogni 7 secondi), la maggior parte nei Paesi poveri, dove le multinazionali del fumo stanno incrementando le strategie di mercato e si presentano come "aziende ad alta responsabilità sociale". Per la Giornata, numerose le iniziative in Italia dove la Lega Italiana per la la Lotta contro i Tumori (LILT) ha realizzato il Dossier "Il fumo nel mondo del cinema e della moda" per denunciare la persuasione occulta messa in campo dalle multinazionali del tabacco tramite il mondo dello spettacolo.

31.05.2004 Markkinauudistukset eivät nostakaan vähiten kehittyneitä maita köyhyydestä, YK:n kauppa- ja kehitysjärjestön Unctadin tuore selonteko osoittaa. Raportin mukaan parhaita tuloksia viennin ja yksityisen kulutuksen kasvussa on saatu niissä maissa, jotka ovat avanneet markkinoitaan maltillisesti. Kaupan vapauttamisen tulee edetä kehityksen ehdoilla, raportissa todetaan

30.05.2004 O Seminário Nacional de lançamento da 4a. Semana Social Brasileira identificou alguns temas que merecem atenção especial. Eles têm muitas implicações na realidade atual. E apresentam de imediato um desafio para o mutirão por um novo Brasil, que a Semana quer incentivar.

29.05.2004 The MSTS’ actions have brought the housing issue to the center stage in Salvador, and the parties are anxious to please with municipal elections coming up at the end of the year. Violent evictions by police, common in the early stages of the movement, have been replaced with a policy of negotiation.

27.05.2004 La ONG Ayuda en Acción organiza durante todo este fin de semana talleres, exposiciones y caminatas en varias ciudades españolas. Los fondos recaudados se invertirán en los proyectos de la organización.
Fuente: Canal Solidario-OneWorld

27.05.2004 Join Friends of the Earth in lobbying to ensure that US companies disclose basic information about their operations overseas. Lack of disclosure has allowed some U.S. companies to conceal irresponsible or disgraceful behavior, such as treating workers poorly, harming the environment and collaborating with oppressive governments that violate human rights.

26.05.2004 Amidst popular images of India's rapid growth and rising middle class, Devinder Sharma points out that one third of the world's hungry people live in India. Boasting of luxury car imports and foodgrain exports is inappropriate.

26.05.2004 Farm expropriation is one possible approach to land reform for the Namibian government, but vague and contradictory statements are creating negative sentiment. The government has a host of other options, according to a report by Windhoek’s Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

26.05.2004 Más de 100 muertos, decenas de heridos y desaparecidos ha sido el resultado del temporal de lluvias que desbordó un río que nace en Haití y que penetró a la ciudad de Jimaní, llevándose consigo casas sembradíos, animales y todo lo que a su paso encontró.

26.05.2004 Les 28 et 29 mai 2004, le Centre historique de la ville de Guadalajara, Mexique, sera transformé en zone rouge sécuritaire, afin de protéger ceux qui planifient l’exploitation et le saccage des ressources de l’Amérique latine, comme ils le font depuis plus de 500 ans.

25.05.2004 Les empreses exportadores de gambes (camaroneras) a l'Equador han generat en el transcurs de més de dues dècades d'extracció unes conseqüències socioambientals devastadores a la zona costera del país. Molts d'aquests conflictes han tingut lloc a les províncies d'Esmeraldas i a la Península de Santa Elena, a la província del Guayas. La destrucció intensiva dels manglars per a la instal·lació i expansió d'aquesta indústria i la desforestació de la zona són algunes de les conseqüències més importants. A continuació us oferim un llistat dels principals conflictes i actors.
Font: Acción Ecológica

25.05.2004 The next debate on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) took place last Friday (May 21) in the NANSEN dialogue Center in Mostar. Organizers were the Alumni Association of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (ACIPS) in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This was the third in the series of University Workshop after the events which took place at the Univesrities of Sarajevo and Banjaluka last year.

25.05.2004 Instituti për hulumtime zhvillimore RIINVEST organizon sot tryezën e diskutimeve (4) mbi zhvillimet në investimet e jashtme direkte në Kosovë. Tryeza do të mbahet duke filluar në ora 10:00 në Hotel Grand, në Prishtinë.

25.05.2004 Villagers opposed to the construction of a big dam in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are on an indefinite hunger strike to protest what they describe as their illegal confinement after a demonstration last week.

25.05.2004 Vaikka Maailmanpankin tehtävänä on vähentää köyhyyttä maailmassa, sen toiminta öljyalalla hyödyttää pääasiassa alan suuryrityksiä ja rikkaita maita, tuore raportti väittää. Institute for Policy Studies-instituutin julkaiseman raportin mukaan pankin tukemat öljyhankkeet palvelevat ensi sijassa teollisuusmaiden, ei kehitysmaiden, energiantarpeita. Samalla ne auttavat vaurasta pohjoista vähentämään riippuvuuttaan Lähi-idän öljystä.

25.05.2004 Since the early days of World War II, the U.S. Navy had used Puerto Rico’s offshore island municipality of Vieques as target practice. A year after US Navy’s exit, Vieques tourism is booming.

24.05.2004 Children are no longer just recipients of development projects but participants. Plan International UK has been involving children in the development process and promoting their rights since the mid 1990s. Learn more about the programmes they have set up.

22.05.2004 INTERVJU: ROMANO PRODI, PRETSEDATEL NA EVROPSKATA KOMISIJA

Po poslednoto prosiruvanje na Evropskata Unija, koga postojani clenki stanaa deset zemji od poranesniot Istocen blok, se otvorija starite debati - dali e toa krajot na procesot na prosiruvanje na Unijata. Odredeni politicari smetaat deka na Evropa ke i treba pauza po poslednoto prosiruvanje i oti vo pobliska idnina na clenstvo ke mozat da smetaat Bugarija i Romanija, a eventualno i Hrvatska. Vo nekoja podalecna idnina, mozebi i poveke od deset godini e mozno redot da im dojde i na Makedonija, Albanija, Srbija... Koga e vo prasanje do kade treba da se prosirat granicite na EU, Romano Prodi, pretsedatel na Evropskata komisija, e kategoricen. “Ako e prasanje dali Balkanot treba da bide del od EU, mojot odgovor e da i toa bez ronka kolebanje. Rabotev i ke prodolzam da rabotam vo taa nasoka se do krajot na mojot mandat”, istaknuva Prodi.

21.05.2004 Development organisations, led by OneWorld South Asia, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and NASSCOM Foundation have formed a National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs, which will seek to take knowledge-led services to every village in India by 2007.

21.05.2004 Development organisations, led by OneWorld South Asia, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and NASSCOM Foundation have formed a National Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies for Basic Human Needs, which will seek to take knowledge-led services to every village in India by 2007.