Full coverage: Development

16.10.2006 Vuosi sitten Euroopan porteilta Marokosta käännytetyt malilaiset palasivat lyötyinä kotiin. Moni on nyt päässyt uuden elämän alkuun palaajien perustaman järjestön tuella. Lokakuussa 2005 maailman huomio kohdistui hetken aikaan Espanjalle kuuluviin alueisiin Marokon rannikolla, kun tuhannet epätoivoiset afrikkalaiset pyrkivät niihin aitojen yli.

16.10.2006 Eurooppalaisten kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen yhteenliittymän CONCORDen delegaatio tapasi Suomen ulkomaankauppa- ja kehitysministeri Lehtomäen Luxemburgissa ennen tänään alkanutta yleisten asioiden ja ulkosuhteiden neuvoston kokousta. Rilli Lappalainen Kehys ry:stä toivoi ministeriltä vahvaa tahtoa edistää Suomen EU-puheenjohtajuuskaudella kehityspoliittista johdonmukaisuutta sekä jo olemassa olevien sitoumusten toimeenpanoa.

16.10.2006 Today, October 16 Global - the day also commemorates the creation of the United Nations World Food Program in 1954. The UN recognizes that today, agriculture has contributed to human civilization by improving nutrition and living standards. It has ensured the production and distribution of agricultural, fishery and forestry products and enough food to feed everyone on this planet. The theme for the World Food Day 2006 is "Investing in agriculture for food security."

15.10.2006 En América Latina existen alrededor de 60 millones de mujeres rurales que diariamente trabajan más de 12 horas para asegurar la subsistencia de sus familias. Algunas estadísticas indican que ellas contribuyen a generar alrededor del 48 por ciento del ingreso familiar en la región.

15.10.2006 NEW YORK, Oct 14 (IPS) - This weekend, thousands of people around the world will literally "Stand Up Against Poverty" as part of campaign organised by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) to lobby for government action on fair trade and the set of pledges known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

13.10.2006 Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Lasting peace can not be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. Micro-credit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights

13.10.2006 Globalisation has not removed personal and regional income disparities. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening. We need a new global vision that ensures the gains from globalisation are more widely shared.

13.10.2006 A doctor held one of the jobs for six months two years ago, but since then the posts have been vacant. Even at the district's Taplejung Hospital, only one of two doctor positions is ever filled at one time. "If that doctor goes out for some work, there is no doctor at all," hospital chief Shree Ram Shah told 'Gorkhapatra' newspaper.

13.10.2006 As education sector funders develop new patterns of collaboration they are re-directing support to education ministries or national budgets. Donor focus on formal primary education has been at the expense of support to adult literacy and other out-of-school programmes.

13.10.2006 "Katha Rakhiba Sarakar" (Government ! Lets Keep the Promises) is a State level collective campaign to create an enabling environment for the effective implementation of the commitments towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Orissa.

13.10.2006 Following the successful mobilization and weeklong padayatra in September to undertake the Social Audit of NREGA in Ananthapur, it is now proposed to undertake a week of campaign in Medak district of the Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh.

13.10.2006 A brief dialogue on the UN Millennium Development Goals on 15th October, 2006, is being organized by Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECOEDECON), Jaipur in partnership with Pratham-Rajasthan, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur and Rajasthan Voluntary Health Association, Jaipur with support of the UN Millennium Campaign

13.10.2006 CECOEDECON and Wada na todo Abhiyan partners have partnered with Government of Madhya Pradesh to organize state wide STAND-UP and major events in the state's administrative capital Bhopal and commercial capital Indore (especially targeting youth and children).

12.10.2006 Globaalissa mittakaavassa Välimeren venepakolaisuus on osa laajempaa muuttoliikettä, jonka mukana maasta toiseen liikkuvat yhtä lailla siirtolaiset, turvapaikanhakijat, pakolaiset kuin ihmiskaupan uhrit. Suomen Pakolaisavun seminaarissa kuudes lokakuuta Helsingissä kuultiin puheenvuoroja sekä lähtömaan että vastaanottavan maan näkökulmasta.

12.10.2006 Ancora pochi mesi. Il percorso di presentazione della proposta di Legge sul Commercio Equo e Solidale, la prima progettata ed elaborata dal movimento addirittura a livello europeo, sta oramai arrivando a compimento. Due anni di lavoro, un impegno sostanziale in competenze e relazioni, per riuscire a produrre un progetto condiviso e collettivo. E’ stato grazie al confronto continuo e trasparente tra le tre realtà maggiormente rappresentative del mondo del Fair Trade italiano, AGICES, Assemblea Generale Italiana del Commercio Equo e Solidale, Associazione Botteghe del Mondo e Fairtrade/Transfair Italia, che si è potuto superare lo stallo di un movimento percepito come conflittuale e atomizzato, poco candidabile a interlocutore istituzionale. Un Tavolo di confronto permanente, che è riuscito a portare in porto iniziative importanti come la presentazione e la fornitura di prodotti alla Bouvette della Camera dei Deputati o gli emendamenti alla Risoluzione del Parlamento Europeo votata nel luglio scorso, e che sta accompagnando il movimento verso una normativa di settore vera e propria. di Alberto Zoratti

12.10.2006 Se realizará la Gira de Aprendizaje sobre “Derechos Indígenas, Concertación y Desarrollo Local”, en Managua y Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, del 22 al 29 de octubre del 2006.

11.10.2006 Miles de personas se concentraron en los graderíos del estadio Cuscatlán para ser testigos de la presentación del plan de Seguridad propuesto por el partido de izquierda Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), en el marco del “Primer Encuentro por la Paz, la seguridad y la justicia social”.

11.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (OneWorld) - Allies of dispossessed African Bushmen assailed Botswana's diamond industry as the Southern African country's president told a U.S. audience Tuesday the gem is an economic lifeline.

11.10.2006 Maailmantalouden epävakaa kehitys on uhka kehitysmaille, YK arvioi. Järjestön mukaan kansainvälinen talouskasvu tulee hidastumaan ensi vuoden aikana. Järjestön ennustama kolmen prosentin kasvu vuodelle 2007 on 0,6 prosenttia pienempi kuin tänä vuonna.

11.10.2006 Puolittaiseksi jäänyt rauhansopimus on vain lisännyt väkivaltaa ja siviilien ahdinko pahenee entisestään. Nyt siviileitä tappavat hallituksen lisäksi myös entiset kapinalliset. Avustusjärjestöt ovat joutuneet poistumaan taistelujen jaloista.