Full coverage: Governance

31.05.2006 Un tavolo di confronto con Sbilanciamoci! sulle decisioni del governo in materia di DPEF e finanziaria è uno degli impegni assunti ieri mattina dal sottosegretario all'economia Paolo Cento nel corso dell'incontro avuto con alcuni rappresentanti della campagna Sbilanciamoci!, che già da 6 anni analizza le politiche economiche dei governi ed elabora proposte concrete in direzione della solidarietà e della pace. "Siamo molto soddisfatti di questo incontro - ha affermato il portavoce di Sbilanciamoci! Giulio Marcon - dopo che già nei giorni scorsi il sottosegretario aveva riconosciuto e apprezzato pubblicamente il nostro lavoro". Oltre alla Finanziaria di Pace, sono numerose le iniziative promosse da Sbilanciamoci!. Nei giorni scorsi la Campagna ha presentato per il quarto anno consecutivo il rapporto "Come si vive in Italia? Qualità sociale, Diritti Umani, Ambiente, Politiche pubbliche Regione per Regione" sulla base dell'elaborazione del QUARS, un indice costruito per misurare la qualità dello sviluppo nelle regioni italiane.

31.05.2006 El administrador de la Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, Alberto Alemán Zubieta, anunció el 24 de abril la ampliación del canal de Panamá, que tendrá un costo de US$5.2 millardos.

31.05.2006 After a delay of five months, the first draft of 11th Plan Approach Papers reached the PMO for approval.According to sources, despite nagging disagreements on the resource mobilisation issue, which kept eluding a consensus, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Aluwaliah finally submitted the papers for approval.

31.05.2006 Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) on May 23, 2006, demanded allocation of at least Tk 25 crore in the budget for 2006-07 for women entrepreneurship development. They also demanded tax holiday facility for up to 10 years for the women entrepreneurs.

31.05.2006 (Prishtinë, 30 maj 2006) Sistemi i drejtësisë penale ende nuk po u del zot viktimave në Kosovë, edhe pse tani shtatë vite Kosova është nën administrim ndërkombëtar, vlerëson Human Rights Watch në një raport të ri të publikuar sot. Në ndërkohë, bashkësia ndërkombëtare këto ditë është duke negociuar me intensitet të madh statusin e ardhshëm të Kosovës.

31.05.2006 Northern Bac Ninh province has become Viet Nam's first e-government province with the application of electronic monitoring systems at its agencies and organisations.

31.05.2006 The European Union Foreign Ministers on Monday ordered the listing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a banned organisation. Western diplomats said that the decision was taken at a meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels.

31.05.2006 Education Minister Lt Gen (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said 45 percent of students dropped out before completing their primary education, and there were a number of factors behind this high rate. We are giving salaries lower than domestic servants’ to teachers. What can you expect them to deliver? What results can matriculate 3rd division teachers produce?

31.05.2006 The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a landmark resolution, reserving for women 33 per cent of posts in all organs of the state and amending the "patriarchal" citizenship law.

31.05.2006 The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims. Though built specifically to give free long-term treatment to gas victims, the hospital, which is the only super-specialty hospital in Bhopal, also caters to other patients who pay for their treatment. In the process, the gas victims are systematically discriminated against.

30.05.2006 If equity, justice, redressal are not built into our ICT strategies, all we will have accomplished is to upgrade our worlds, not change them. A person form Andhra spoke to Samuha members of how a person with a disability had accessed financial assistance through the government's ICT kiosks, and how, immediately after, a Panchayat official had come up to this person, and had asked him to ‘deposit' the funds with him.

30.05.2006 The Non-Aligned Movement, which exists to give voice to developing countries and advance a more democratic international order, must move forward with the United Nations towards their shared goals, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.

30.05.2006 The National Human Rights Commission should revamp its mandate in the light of massive institutionalised corruption that has left no institution in India untouched.An opinion by C. Raj Kumar.

30.05.2006 The Government of A.P issued the much-awaited DSC (District Selection Committee)-2006 notification for recruitment of as many as 20,193 teachers to strengthen and stabilise the school system in the State at the primary level.

29.05.2006 Alvaro Uribe fue relegido hoy presidente de Colombia para el periodo 2006-2010 con siete millones de votos, 62 por ciento de los casi 12 millones de sufragios depositados.
Publica: La Jornada

29.05.2006 ¿Hippies pacifistas y estudiantes rebeldes del 68, maduros y liberacionistas, han llegado al poder con el nuevo Gobierno?
Este parece ser el mensaje que quiere transmitir la administración Arias...

29.05.2006 Under its “New Role for NGOs in the Process of Design of B&H Public Policies” project, ALDI released the results of the public opinion survey on the work of municipal authorities/administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

29.05.2006 THE strategies for poverty alleviation and development followed by the countries in Asia and the Pacific region have high relevance for Bangladesh where more than 80 per cent of its people have a rural existence and the majority of them remain below the poverty line. An opinion by Mustafa Jasim Ahmed.

29.05.2006 The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro is alarmed by recent activities of the Republican Broadcasting Agency (RBA) Council. While the OSCE acknowledges the fact that an independent regulatory body should be entrusted with the authority to allocate broadcasting licences, it calls on the Council to respect national law and international standards, as well as decisions of judicial bodies such as the Supreme Court.

29.05.2006 The MCA-21 Initiative of the Ministry of Company Affairs facilitating e-filing of documents under Indian Company Law is commendable in many ways.