Full Coverage: International Cooperation

12/31/2004 Leaders from Asian countries devastated by the tsunami will meet next week in the Indonesian capital to develop a strategy to help with relief efforts.

12/29/2004 Banda Aceh, the closest region to the epicenter of Sunday’s devastating earthquake is off limits to foreign-based journalists and aid workers--unless they secure special permit from the Indonesian government. Applications for the permits take two weeks to process. International organizations have been shut out of Aceh since May 2003 when the government started a military campaign against the Free Aceh separatist rebels.

12/28/2004 In the wake of Sunday's devastating tsunamis that killed at least 25,000 people across South and Southeast Asia, the United Nations and aid groups worldwide have mobilized what could be the biggest relief operation in history.

12/28/2004 Aid agencies and the United Nations have issued warnings over the danger of epidemics and water borne diseases, in areas devastated by the tsunami, as rotting bodies can cause health and sanitation problems.

12/28/2004 After yesterday’s earthquake, there were 90 minutes before the first wave of the deluge crashed into the Indian coast. Within 15 minutes of the earthquake, scientists running the tsunami warning system for the Pacific had issued a cautionary from their Honolulu hub, to 26 participating countries. India was not among them.

12/27/2004 Komercijalna Banka Skopje, "Alkaloid" Pharmaceuticals, Stopanska Banka, "MakSteel" Company, "Fonko" LTD, and 20 more companies from Macedonia accepted the 10 principles of the new UN Global Compact, presented on December 22 by Frode Mauring, UNDP representative to Macedonia.

12/27/2004 World Bank has approved a loan of US $ 620 million to upgrade the national highway between the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and the eastern state of in the state of Bihar to give an impetus to trading activities within the nation.

12/23/2004 A combination of Washington's gaping federal budget deficit and unanticipated humanitarian crises overseas means that U.S. food aid programs designed to lift millions of people out of absolute poverty and chronic malnutrition are being sacrificed to meet more urgent needs in life-and-death situations.

12/23/2004 U medijima u Srbiji nije prisutno suočavanje sa prošlošću već rehabilitacija zločina, ocenila je Sonja Biserko, predsednica Helsinškog odbora za ljudska prava u Srbiji na predstavljanju rezultata analize štampanih medija i studije "Mediji u Srbiji kao deo antievropskog fronta - štampa: nepromenjena matrica"

12/23/2004 UK based NGO ActionAid is going to organise a daylong coffee break to raise funds to tackle poverty worldwide. This is part of its campaign to ensure global fair trade rules to enable poor coffee growers in developing nations to demand suitable price for the product.

12/23/2004 Nevladina organizacija Vojvodjanka –Regionalna ženska incijativa u saradnji sa partnerskim organizacijama iz Novog Sada i Beograda, i uz podršku Skupštine i Izvrsnog veca AP Vojvodine i Pokrajinskog ombudsmana za ljudska prava organizovala je prvi Festival o ljudskim pravima – VIVISECTfest, od 13. do 19. decembra 2004. godine u Novom Sadu

12/22/2004 Trade and technical assistance between developing nations has become one of the most significant factors driving development worldwide, prominent UN officials and other diplomats have said. "South-South trade is becoming a dominant factor in the international economic relations," said the chairman of the UN's Group of 77 developing nations, noting that trade between developing countries grew at more than twice the rate of world trade in 2003.

12/21/2004 The United Nations and several independent groups are warning that renewed fighting in the eastern Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) threatens a major humanitarian catastrophe in the six-year-old conflict that has claimed nearly four million lives.

12/20/2004 Canada will provide a contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) of over $20 million for new initiatives to address poverty and hunger in Ethiopia. WFP is the largest international food aid organization working to combat hunger in underdeveloped nations with severe food shortages.

12/17/2004 Komisioni Evropian ka vendosur që të ndajë për Kosovën edhe 23.9 milion euro si ndihmë e KE, përveç 60 milion eurove ekzistuese që janë dhënë për vitin 2004. Me këto fonde shtesë BE-ja vazhdon të ndihmojë (UNMIK-un) dhe Institucionet e Përkohshme Vetqeverisëse të Kosovës (IPVK) për të zbatuar reformat e përcaktuara në “Standardet për Kosovën” dhe Partneritetin Evropian

12/17/2004 India has unveiled a massive plan to e-connect 53 nations of the African continent via satellite and fibre optic network to support tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance, e-commerce, infotainment and meteorological services in an effort to fight poverty and disease, haunting Africa and India.

12/17/2004 Intel Corporation and UNESCO have agreed to work together on developing a model curriculum and syllabus to improve the use of ICTs in classrooms worldwide.

12/17/2004 Intel Corporation and UNESCO have agreed to work together on developing a model curriculum and syllabus to improve the use of ICTs in classrooms worldwide.

12/17/2004 "The United Nations is not perfect...but our world will not easily find a better instrument for forging a sustained global response to today's threats," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a Washington D.C. address Thursday, urging the United States to help adapt the international body to better respond to emerging global threats.

12/16/2004 Weather-related disasters in 2004 will cost the global insurance industry more than $35 billion - - a historical record, according to United Nations and industry officials who spoke Wednesday at an international climate conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.