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31.07.2006 Bordi i Drejtorëve në Fondin Monetar Ndërkombëtar firmosi me 24 Korrik vazhdimësinë e bashkëpunimit me Shqipërine në kuader të plotesimit të 6 muajve që kur marreveshja e re tre vjecare u firmos ndërmjet të dy palëve.

31.07.2006 The Osijecki Zeleni (Osijek Greens) environmental organization called upon the Government of Croatia to use the UN Commission for Peace auspices, and especially its status of candidate country for full EU membership, to make strong and active effort towards an immediate and unconditional stop of war in Lebanon.

31.07.2006 The World Bank, as trustee of the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF) has signed two agreements with two Indian companies to promote technologies that may help revolutionize the building material industry—one utilizes a more energy efficient kiln to produce burnt clay bricks, and the other replaces burnt clay brick with fly ash bricks which are manufactured without the use of thermal energy.

28.07.2006 Setting aside ideological divisions, observers in India have endorsed the government's decision to quit the Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation, rather than compromise on the issue of the West's agricultural subsides that endanger the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of farmers in India and other developing countries.

26.07.2006 The U.N.'s World Food Programme has only raised 17 percent of the 5.4 million U.S. dollars it says it needs to buy and deliver rice and fortified wheat to 225,000 villagers in 10 districts.

26.07.2006 Lakhs of the worldÂ’s poorest farmers, many of them in India, will remain shackled to the existing system of rigged rules and double standards in trade rules following the suspension of the Doha round of development trade talks, says a press release by British charity Oxfam.

25.07.2006 After the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva, ActionAid, an international development agency, sees new opportunities to create a people-friendly future for fair trade. Read press release and a backgrounder from ActionAid India on the failed WTO talks.

25.07.2006 Even as the global trade talks collapsed in Geneva, India has blamed developed countries for not making substantial cuts in trade-distorting farm subsidies. The Doha development round of the World Trade Organisation now looks set to be suspended for the next few months.

24.07.2006 Nekoliko stotina urednika, medijskih menadžera i vodećih novinara, članova International Press Institute (IPI), globalne medijske organizacije za unapređenje novinarske profesije, okupiće se u junu 2008. godine u Beogradu.

24.07.2006 Mercoledì il Senato si pronuncerà sulle missioni militari internazionali ed in particolare sulla partecipazione italiana all'Isaf/Nato in Afghanistan. Le 7 Ong (Alisei, Aispo, Cesvi, Coopi, Cosv, Gvc, Intersos) dell'Associazione Ong italiane che operano in Afghanistan che costantemente si coordinano nell'ambito del gruppo "Cooperazione in contesti di guerra" confermano la necessità che sia tenuta distinta l'azione militare da quella civile e umanitaria nel paese. Le Ong operano infatti da sempre in piena autonomia e indipendenza, con proprie finalità e identità. "Chiediamo che sia fatta la massima chiarezza sul mandato dell'Isaf - afferma Sergio Marelli, presidente Associazione Ong italiane - e sulle sue regole di ingaggio al fine di assicurare che la legittima presenza multilaterale di stabilizzazione e sicurezza rimanga tale e non si trasformi in alcun caso in operazione di guerra".

21.07.2006 Äänekäs joukko mielenosoittajia marssi maanantaina 17.7 Helsingissä protestina Israelin armeijan sotatoimia vastaan Libanonissa ja Gazassa. Pysäyttäkää sota-verkoston järjestämä marssi keräsi reilut kolmesataa ihmistä Helsingin kaduille. "Ainoa taho, joka voisi todella puuttua tilanteeseen on Yhdysvallat", toteaa Patsy Nakell, yksi mielenosoitukseen osallistunut.

21.07.2006 Arviolta 230 000 perhettä on edelleen väliaikaissuojan tarpeessa 27. toukokuuta Jaavan saarella Indonesiassa tapahtuneen maanjäristyksen seurauksena. Vaikka tilanne alueella on edelleen vaikea, yhteisöt ovat positiivisia ja katsovat kohti tulevaisuutta. Perheiden yhteistyö toimii hyvin, alueella vierailevat avustustyöntekijät kertovat.

21.07.2006 Lähi-idän konfliktin kuolleista ja haavoittuneista kolmasosa on lapsia. Konfliktin jalkoihin jääneet lapset ovat usein menettäneet vanhempiaan ja joutuneet pakenemaan kodeistaan. Eristyksiin jääneillä alueilla on pulaa vedestä' ja sähköstä ja riski tartuntatautien puhkeamiselle on suuri. YK:n lapsijärjestö UNICEF auttaa alueen lapsia selviytymään vaikeissa oloissa.

21.07.2006 Evropska komisija je objavila mandate za pregovore o viznim olakšicama i sporazumima o readmisiji sa Srbijom, Crnom Gorom i Bosnom.

20.07.2006 An independent commission launched in New Delhi aims to get leaders of Asia-Pacific countries to stand up and take note of the daunting challenge posed by the spread of HIV/AIDS - including increased poverty and development setbacks.

20.07.2006 After securing sympathy and support for fighting terrorism from the G-8 grouping of the world's wealthiest countries in St. Petersburg, the Indian government is coming under pressure to harden its response to last week's Mumbai serial bombings, which killed 200 people.

19.07.2006 As the death toll in the earthquake and tsunami that struck Java island's southern coast crossed the 500 mark, officials admitted to having been caught by surprise, despite the elaborate precautions taken after earthquake-triggered monster waves smashed into Aceh province in northern Sumatra in December 2004.

19.07.2006 Chewang Norphel has attempted to generate water and vegetation in barren Ladakh by simply creating artificial glaciers using stone embankments and a few hundred metres of iron pipe

17.07.2006 Indians must rid themselves of the traditional mindset that all higher education, especially professional education should be affordable to all,” said Symbiosis International Education Centre Founder-Chancellor S B Mujumdar, at a conference on ‘Autonomy in Higher Education — Regulatory and Legal Issues’ organised by Delhi-based Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI).

14.07.2006 With a significant increase in the flow of migrants -- both legal and illegal -- over the last few years, the United States is heading towards a demographic milestone: a 300 million population before the end of this year, rising from its current 298 million.