Full Coverage: International Cooperation

07/30/2004 Radionica i zajednicka akcija mladih iz Brandenburga i Novog Sada ce pokazati sa kojim problemima se suocavaju mladi iz bivse socijalisticke Istocne Nemacke i bivse socijalisticke Jugoslavije.

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Vreme: 02.-03. avgust 2004. od 12:00 do 16:00 h

07/30/2004

What we think of Russia

Since 1997 when the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives exchanged a series of letters with the chairman of the Russian Duma, the dialogue between American and Russian legislators continues till the present with the creation of a study group – the only official exchange between both legislatures.

07/30/2004 The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced the commencement of formal investigation into war crimes in Uganda this week. The investigation, prompted by a request from the government of Uganda, will look at the conduct of both rebel and government forces in the 18-year conflict in the northern part of the country.

07/30/2004 The UN Security Council will vote on the final draft of the U.S. resolution on Sudan this week. The resolution does not mention sanctions but threatens economic measures against Sudan if its government fails to disarm the Janjaweed militia.

07/29/2004

India Pakistan Summit 2001 © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep

There are many indications that the United States is losing its influence in South Asia, says Ahmad Faruqui. From the worsening situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, through Washington’s lukewarm relations with India’s new government, to the disappointment of Pakistanis at the Bush administration’s continued support for the repressive government of General Musharraf, U.S. policy in the region is clearly under pressure.

07/29/2004

© ENS

The results of a recent poll conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) showed that most Americans support sending U.S. troops to protect civilian population in Darfur provided other nations contribute 75 per cent of the forces necessary.

07/29/2004

Fair Trade

At the inauguration festival of the America Social Forum this week, three international groups launched a letter-writing initiative to ask Latin America and Caribbean governments to refrain from negotiating trade agreements that harm people of the region.

07/27/2004 Chavannes Jean Baptiste, porte-parole du Mouvement Paysan National du Congrès de Papaye (Hinche, Est) a réagi avec réserve et lancé des mises en garde après la récente réunion de Washington sur l'aide internationale à Haïti.

07/27/2004 Amid continuing reports of attacks by Arab militias against black Africans in the western province of Darfur in Sudan, the United States and its main allies in Europe are urgently pressing the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against militia leaders and their government supporters.

07/27/2004 As countries across the world come together in Geneva Tuesday to study a World Trade Organization (WTO) draft on agriculture, Indian activists have warned that millions of farmers in the developing world will be badly hit if the document is accepted.

07/27/2004 An international human rights group has presented a case file on an alleged campaign of extermination perpetrated against the Bambuti Pygmies to the International Criminal Court. The case file includes witness reports of rapes, murders and mass dislocation of the Bambuti by the military in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

07/27/2004

The IMF's bitter medicine © Oxfam International

Created at a Bretton Woods conference in 1944, global economy experts believe the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have long abandoned their founding mission of promoting international economic cooperation by providing member countries with short term loans so they can trade with other countries. The twin institutions now act more like global loan sharks, doling out emergency loan packages with strings attached to troubled countries over whom they exert enormous control, often without giving any thought to global economic equality or environmental destruction.

07/26/2004 Con una lettera inviata al Ministro degli Affari Esteri, Franco Frattini, Volontari nel mondo – Focsiv chiede, in concomitanza, con la riunione straordinaria del Consiglio Europeo sul Commercio, che si svolge oggi a Ginevra, in vista del General Council, di tener fede all’impegno, assunto chiaramente nella Dichiarazione di Doha dai Paesi industrializzati, a favore degli interessi dei paesi piu’ poveri.

07/26/2004 According to a new report from Oxfam, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) reform talks to be held in Geneva this week may collapse because rich countries are not fulfilling their promises to lay the ground for possible reduction of world poverty by redressing global trade imbalances. The draft negotiating text released by the WTO “shows evidence of considerable rich-country influence and does not adequately address key areas of interest to developing countries” such as the export dumping, market access and protection of vulnerable sectors of the their economy.

07/24/2004 ‘The future of Kosovo is in Europe” stated the Dutch Foreign Minister and Chairman in Office of the EU Bernard Bot; during a visit he is paying to Kosovo. Bot stressed that Kosovo remains the main priority of the EU.

07/23/2004 Odrzava se od 19. do 23. Jula u Resniku, industrijskoj zoni oko Beograda. Pozivaju se svi samonikli pokreti, grupe i kolektivi...

Opstenarodna akcija je globalna mreza lokalnih borbi, svetska mreza koja radi na trajnim politickim, drustvenim, direktno-demokratskim alternativama kapitalizmu i svim sistemima potlacivanja, daleko od logike politickih partija, drzave i ideoloskih aparata drzave (etatizovanih sindikata, nevladinih organizacija, i tome slicnog). To je mesto gde se anti-autoritarne i anti-kapitalisticke inicijative srecu.

07/23/2004 The International Committee of the Red Cross' legal team answers questions on what defines occupation, the laws that apply and how people are protected.

07/23/2004 The international community geared up efforts to avert the looming catastrophe in western Sudan this week. While the UN announced plans to send a security assessment mission to Khartoum, and the UK revealed plans for possible military intervention in Darfur, Washington put finishing touches to the Security Council resolution on Sudan.

07/22/2004 Superato il pericolo dello scippo della finanziaria del 2004 ai fondi per la cooperazione internazionale di 250 milioni di Euro, alla vigilia della presentazione del DPEF, l'Associazione delle ONG italiane presenta un documento in cui manifesta le richieste per la Finanziaria 2005 e denuncia la "reiterata pratica di non consultazione con le parti sociali in occasione di questo Dpef". E l'Associazione Obiettori Nonviolenti (Aon) avverte che se la Camera dei Deputati darà il nulla osta definitivo al provvedimento di anticipo della fine della leva obbligatoria, il servizio civile rischia di scomparire.

07/22/2004 In occasione della predisposizione della legge Finanziaria per l’anno 2005, l’Associazione ONG Italiane, a nome delle 164 ONG che rappresenta, unisce la propria voce a quelle di forze politiche, di associazioni di categoria, di realtà della società civile e di esperti che da tempo si sono alzate per chiedere sostanziali correttivi per corrispondere ai reali bisogni del paese, in particolare delle fasce svantaggiate della popolazione, e contemporaneamente dimostrarsi all’altezza dei problemi che occorre affrontare a livello mondiale, con l’adozione di politiche nazionali coerenti e responsabili.