Full Coverage: International Cooperation

09/30/2004 Si è appena concluso un incontro ospitato dal Gruppo della Margherita presso la Camera dei Deputati e promosso dall’Associazione ONG Italiane tra un gruppo di parlamentari di maggioranza e opposizione intorno ai temi della Cooperazione allo sviluppo e gli esponenti dell’Associazione ONG italiane. Durante il confronto è emersa una chiara presa di posizione dei presenti sulla manovra di assestamento di bilancio collegata alla Finanziaria. "Lo schema di assestamento di bilancio - si legge nel comunicato redatto al termine della riunione - prevede una forte e ingiusta variazione in diminuzione per i fondi a favore della cooperazione internazionale. Il taglio mette in particolare a repentaglio l’azione di cura e prevenzione dell’Aids e l’intervento del nostro paese a favore delle popolazioni e dello sviluppo in aree delicate come l’Afghanistan, l’Iraq e l’Africa".

09/30/2004 “Abbiamo sempre cercato di unire due mondi distanti – ha detto Simona Pari nella conferenza stampa indetta da “Un ponte per…” che si augura che si chiuda questa fase del rapimento per "tornare presto al lavoro, al fianco di una popolazione che continua a essere ostaggio della guerra". E in polemica con l'Ass. Ong Italiane si sono schierate Terre des Hommes, Ics, Movimondo e Un Ponte Per che hanno voluto precisare il loro rifiuto dei fondi del Governo finchè il contingente militare rimarrà in Iraq'. Oggi si è tenuto un incontro tra l'Ass. Ong Italiane e un gruppo di parlamentari di maggioranza e opposizione. Da Save the Children giunge un appello affinché in Iraq siano dispiegati caschi blu delle Nazioni Unite.

09/30/2004 EU on maailman suurin kehitysyhteistyön rahoittaja, mutta potti saattaa olla myös kaikkein epäloogisimmin jaettu, toteavat asiantuntijat. Jäsenmaiden kehitysyhteistyö sekä yksittäisinä valtioina että osallistuminen yhteiseen rahoitukseen lisää EU:n kehityspolitiikan sekavuutta. Kansalaisjärjestöt pelkäävät, että turvallisuuden painottaminen EU:n politiikassa karsii rahoitusta tietyiltä kehitysohjelmilta kun uudistuksiin vihdoin ryhdytään.

09/30/2004 Three more states - - Burundi, Guyana and Liberia - - ratified the Rome Statute in support of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week, bringing the number of signatories to 97. Liberia and Burundi join the ranks of countries like East Timor and the Democratic Republic of Congo that joined the ICC after suffering grave, prolonged atrocities.

09/29/2004 Thailand has come forward to provide anti-retroviral drugs and condoms to Myanmar to save migrant workers from HIV/AIDS as the first part of a three-year commitment to support Myanmar's health facilities.

09/29/2004 Two new cases of deaths due to the bird flu in the same family in Thailand are being investigated by the World Health Organisation.

09/29/2004 Kehitysyhteistyöllä tuetaan paitsi palestiinalaisalueiden ihmisiä, myös rauhanprosessin edistymistä. Palestiinalaisalueiden kehitysyhteistyöseminaarissa Helsingissä pohdittiin myös, rahoitammeko miehitystä palestiinalaisalueilla ja eikö kannattaisi sulkea apuhanat ja käyttää poliittista painostusta.

09/29/2004 Thailand has come forward to provide anti-retroviral drugs and condoms to Myanmar to save migrant workers from HIV/AIDS as the first part of a three years commitment to assist the health facilities of its neighbour country.

09/28/2004 Kryeadministratori i Kosovës Sorem Jesen-Petersen, ministri i Financave i Shqiperisë Arben Malaj dhe ministri i Ekonomisë e Financave Ali Sadriu nënshkruan sot Marrëveshja për Eliminimin e Taksimit të dyfishtë për qarkullimin e mallrave ndërmjet Kosovës dhe Shqipërisë.

09/28/2004 Malaysia and India are working on establishing an ASEAN-India Free Trade Area (FTA), covering trade in goods, services and investment. This would broaden opportunities for Indian companies to export their products and services to the regional and global markets.

09/28/2004 The regional cooperation is the basis for the European approach to problems, said Clauss Schumman, Director General for Political Affairs of the Council of Europe, at the “Citizens for Peace and Development” Conference, held last weekend in Kumanovo. The Conference is a part of the activities created to promote the cross-border cooperation between northern Macedonia, Kosovo and Southern Serbia.

09/28/2004

capi di stato G8 - da nog8.org

Oxfam is calling on G-7 finance ministers to revalue the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) 100 million ounce gold reserve at current market rate and provide funds for canceling poor countries’ multilateral debts. Describing the IMF’s gold stockpile as “absurdly undervalued,” the organization says any deal on debt must include substantial increases in money going to poor countries, and revaluing gold will enable this.

09/28/2004 Allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse are becoming more rampant in peacekeeping missions even as the UN implements its “zero-tolerance” policy on sexual misconduct. The organization’s limited mandate over peacekeepers - - it can repatriate offenders, it cannot prosecute or carry out other disciplinary measures - - hampers its efforts to hold peacekeepers accountable for their actions.

09/27/2004 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Britain's announcement Sunday that it will pay off ten percent of billions of dollars of debt owed to international financial institutions (IFI) by the world's poorest nations is fuelling the hopes of activists worldwide that a comprehensive debt cancellation accord may be concluded on Friday this week.

09/27/2004 The austerity policies imposed on developing countries by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are undermining the global fight against the HIV/AIDS crisis, according to a new report by several prominent public-health and development groups.

09/27/2004 US trade representative Ashley Wills and Afghanistan's minister of commerce, Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) in Kabul which will enable the countries to examine ways to expand bilateral trade and investment.

09/24/2004 US women who had lost their husbands in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 have joined together to help out Afghan women.

09/24/2004 The World Bank has approved a US$400 million package for the development of rural roads in India to provide increased access to markets and social services by the rural population.

09/23/2004 Pakistan and Jordan have come together to take up projects on engineering, advanced materials, biotechnology and information and communication technologies (ICTs).

09/22/2004 The International Development Association, an arm of the World Bank has provided a US$53 million credit to the Government of Sri Lanka with 40 years maturity and a ten-year grace period for an ambitious ICT project.