Full coverage: Development

30.06.2004 Canada's first minority government in 25 years will have to act on environmental and sustainable development priorities if it hopes to build bridges with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois. To start, that could mean less lip service and more action on Canada's Kyoto Protocol obligations.

30.06.2004 BUENOS AIRES- The privatisation of Argentina's railways was a slick business deal in the 1990s for the companies that began to run the train service with subsidies from the state.

30.06.2004 Le gravidanze in età adolescenziale hanno spesso inflitto un colpo mortale alle aspirazioni delle giovani africane: una soluzione al problema può essere l'istituzione di leggi che impongano alle scuole di riammettere le giovani madri. Ma occorrono anche forme di sostegno per permettere alla giovani madri di tornare a scuola - sottolinea una recente Conferenza tenutasi a Nairobi. Dei 42 milioni di minori che nell'Africa sub-sahariana non hanno accesso all'istruzione, il 60% sono femmine.

30.06.2004 Usando a fondo todo su millonario aparato de desinformación y propaganda, el gobierno neoliberal de Carlos Mesa difunde por lo menos 10 mentiras sobre la nacionalización del gas y el petróleo. Con ellas pretende desorientar a la población y desanimarla para que no siga en la lucha promovida por la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) y las organizaciones sociales y populares.

29.06.2004 POKRENI SE! Gradjanski pakt za jugoistocnu Evropu, EXIT tim i Mediumgroup vas pozivaju da ucestvujete na Samitu mladih jugoistocne Evrope POKRENI SE! od 01. - 04. jula

NO TABOO - 2. Festival Ideja 2004 - Exit 04, 01-04.07.2004.

Toplicka Inicijativa na EXIT-u 04!

29.06.2004 WASHINGTON, Jun 28 (IPS) - Billions of dollars of Iraqi oil money have gone unaccounted for by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), according to a new report released Monday.

28.06.2004 Representatives from communities around the world will attend Shell's AGM on Monday (28 June) [1] to demand justice from the oil company, which they say is causing severe health problems and environmental damage from Nigeria to Texas, from Sakhalin to South Africa. Their stories, published in an alternative report by Friends of the Earth [2] conflict with the social and environmental claims made by the company in its reports to shareholders.

25.06.2004 New research from the LSE's Crisis States Programme shows how developed country governments are using their dominance of the WTO and international trade negotiations to force open markets and secure profits for international companies, while avoiding commitments to improve market access for developing countries.

25.06.2004 An Indian NGO working as an information centre on contemporary social issues is looking for volunteers with a range of skill sets and interest in development issues.

25.06.2004 The National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) is organising a workshop, on July 8-9, 2004, at Hyderabad, India, to bring together all the stakeholders in the ICT for Development (ICTD) project.

24.06.2004 Join Amnesty International UK, Oxfam Great Britain and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in fighting the arms trade.

24.06.2004 Il vertice dell'UNCTAD XI si è concluso con un testo adottato dopo diverse controversie tra Paesi in via di sviluppo e Paesi occidentali. Il "San Paulo Consensus" contiene suggerimenti rispetto a quattro temi: strategie di sviluppo in un mondo globalizzato; costruzione di capacità produttive e competitività internazionale; assicurare vantaggi di sviluppo dal sistema commerciale internazionale e la partnership per lo sviluppo. Tra gli argomenti più dibattuti lo spazio politico dei PVS, la governance, la responsabilità sociale di impresa, i meccanismi finanziari innovativi, le azioni commerciali unilaterali e coercitive ed il ruolo dell'UNCTAD nel processo di riforma dell'Onu. Soddisfazione tra i Paesi in via di sviluppo.

24.06.2004 In an address to The World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, United Nation Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged business leaders to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support nine principles in the areas of human rights, labour and the environment. The Global Compact’s operational phase was launched at UN Headquarters in New York on 26 July 2000.

22.06.2004 Excessive centralization of power and the lack of adequate accountability and transparency are being blamed for the poor development record of Bangladesh.

22.06.2004 Protests against Pakistan's acquisition of vast tracts of land for mega military projects in its western Balochistan province are snowballing, with armed tribesmen blowing up an airport in the gas-rich region of Sui last week, and local nationalist parties threatening political action on August 1.

22.06.2004 The crucial role that fishing harbours play in planned fisheries development will be explored in a national workshop being organized on June 24 and 25, 2004, in Kochi, India.

22.06.2004 Blunt measures of human prosperity - like Gross Domestic Product - gauge economic activity without distinguishing "good" activity from "bad." Alternative measures draw on broader sets of social, environmental and health indicators to better represent conditions on the ground. In Bhutan, one such index is charmingly known as Gross National Happiness. (Though some dispute the image of life in Bhutan projected in this article as mythologized.)

22.06.2004 On June 8th, Guatemala was paralyzed by a nationwide strike in protest of the recent increase in land evictions of predominantly indigenous families, as well as a regressive tax proposal and the newly signed Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
By: Guatemala Human Rights Commission

21.06.2004 Organizacija Evropski region godine proglasila je AP Vojvodinu za "Evropski region godine 2006. godine". Evropski region godine okuplja 96 regiona Evrope iz 29 zemalja i ima podrsku Saveta Evrope. Kroz akciju "Evropski region godine", koja se vodi od 2001. godine, stvara se baza znanja i podataka o radu na regionalnom nivou, cime se doprinosi integracionim procesima u Evropi. Svake godine po dva regiona dobijaju mogucnost da se predstave u Evropi. Pored Vojvodine, u 2006. godini predstavice se i Sarajevski kanton u BiH.

18.06.2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The first-ever set of standards certifying land use projects that reduce global warming while conserving the environment and alleviating poverty will be opened up for global peer review and comment next week by the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance.