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12.06.2006 India has said it will give Nepal 10 billion rupees ($218m, £118m) in aid, most of it to be spent on development. The funds will be used to help build or upgrade roads, railways, an oil pipeline and an airport, a joint Indo-Nepalese statement said.

10.06.2006 "La positiva decisione del Ministro degli Esteri D'Alema di rinunciare all'invio di un contingente civile-militare in Iraq ma di definire un efficace programma di cooperazione a livello politico, economico e umanitario va ora tradotta in concreto" - chiedono in un comunicato le Ong del Forum Solint. Nei giorni scorse le Ong del Forum (Cisp, Coopi, Cosv, Intersos, Movimondo e Associazione delle Ong italiane) avevano espresso dubbi sulla missione civile-militare, ma "ritengono ora di potere esprimere alcuni suggerimenti come contributo alla definizione delle priorità della cooperazione italiana con l'Iraq". Tra queste il coordinamento multilaterale come "via maestra per dare efficacia alle iniziative di cooperazione volte al rafforzamento delle istituzioni democratiche, della sicurezza, dello sviluppo infrastrutturale ed economico dell'Iraq". Le Ong chiedono inoltre al Governo italiano di "considerare prioritario il mantenimento all'Iraq della piena sovranità sul petrolio iracheno e sui profitti che ne derivano". E sottolineano che il rafforzamento del processo democratico iracheno passa dallo sviluppo delle organizzazioni della società civile a garanzia di tale processo e a sua difesa.

09.06.2006 Evropski pokret u Srbiji objavio je konkurs za projekt "Putujemo u Evropu" koji će omogućiti da 200 studenata iz Srbije besplatno dobije šengenske vize za boravak u zemljama Evropske unije (EU) i besplatne "inter-rejl (inter-rail)" vozne karte u trajanju od mesec dana.

09.06.2006 While the Doha talks on a new global trade deal in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have sparked tensions between governments, the real impact will ultimately be on the lives of ordinary people.

09.06.2006 The Objective of this UKanSEE Call for Proposals is to improve individual/staff and organizational capacities in mediating financial constraints through support of exchange, backstopping/coaching visits between civil society organizations (CSOs) in SEE in the area of networking, funding, lobbying and advocacy.

09.06.2006 The Government of Australia has established a grant facility at Asian Development Bank (ASX: ATB) to undertake project activities in South Asia with an initial contribution of A$11 million (US$8.5 million).

09.06.2006 Government officials from Central Asia are meeting to discuss how to increase effectiveness of programs and projects in information and communications technology (ICT) in the region, as well as share experiences and lessons learned.

09.06.2006 The World Health Assembly concluded its annual session over the weekend with the adoption of a resolution that could change the concept of drug research and development, and open the door to a system that gives the world's poor greater access to medicines.

09.06.2006 The growing North-South battle between the politically powerful nations in the industrial world and the economically weak countries in the developing world is threatening to escalate in a new war of words.

09.06.2006 UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (OneWorld) - John Bolton, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has drawn fire from some prominent civil society groups in his own country for using threatening language against the world body and its senior officials.

08.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (OneWorld) - U.S. military and economic might in South Korea are being called into question this week as villagers launched a hunger strike to protest a U.S. military base expansion that would force them from their lands and farmers' unions demonstrated in Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement.

08.06.2006 Si è aperta oggi a Riga la 25ª Conferenza Regionale della Fao per l'Europa con l'intervento del direttore generale Fao Jacques Diouf. Allarmanti i dati riportati da Diouf nella relazione: “854 milioni di persone soffrono ancora oggi la fame nel mondo dei quali 820 milioni nei paesi poveri, 25 nei cosiddetti Paesi in transizione e 9 in quelli industrializzati”. E mentre nella prima metà degli anni ‘90 il numero di persone malnutrito era calato di 26 milioni di unità, nella seconda metà degli anni '90 le persone che soffrono la malnutrizione è risalito di 23 milioni di unità, praticamente annullando i pochi risultati ottenuti nei 5 anni precedenti e drammaticamente distanti da quelli fissati con la Dichiarazione del Millennio approvata dall'assemblea delle Nazioni Unite nel 2000. "Il diritto al cibo è uno dei diritti fondamentali - ha commentato Sergio Marelli, presidente del Comitato Italiano per la Sovranità Alimentare, presente a Riga. Il Comitato ribadisce che l'Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio (Wto/Omc) non deve avere giurisdizione sulle politiche agricole ed alimentari che devono avere come primo obiettivo la produzione e messa a disposizione per tutti di cibo in quantità e in qualità adeguate".

08.06.2006 The much awaited draft of the House of Representatives’ Regulation, which was tabled and discussed at the meeting of the House of Representatives today, has further strengthened the parliament by scrapping the concept of the King in parliament.

08.06.2006 An unprecedented war of words between the United States and the United Nations over a controversial speech by world body?s deputy secretary-general threatens to undermine the world body reforms and possibly land it in dire straits financially.

08.06.2006 Malaysia today called for more collaborative cooperation between it and India, particularly in construction sector, to further bilateral trade ties.

07.06.2006 The critical infrastructures of nations are based nowadays on information technology and this is the essential issue for both national authorities and terrorist groups.

07.06.2006 No longer do the vast majority of migrants settle in just a small number of industrial nations (in the West)," says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in the 90-page report titled "International Migration and Development".

07.06.2006 The US State Department said that millions of people still work as bonded labour in industries across Pakistan. The departments 2006 report on human trafficking describes Pakistan as a source, destination, and transit country where men, women, and children are traded for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude.

06.06.2006 A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) declared Nepal as an untouchability-and-discrimination-free country. The historic declaration came after a discussion on a proposal of urgent public importance tabled by CPN-UML lawmaker Parashuram Meghi Gurung.

06.06.2006 By 2015, almost all new entrants in the global work force will come from developing countries, like India, according to a new report on global market trends, brought out by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).