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December 2007
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12/29/2007
Companies in Norway have until Monday to increase the proportion of women on their boards to 40 per cent or face the prospect of being shut down.
Read moreFrom Daily Telegraph Related: [Norway] |
12/27/2007
Intense diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to prevent the expulsion of a senior UN official accused of engaging in talks with leaders of the Taliban.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Afghanistan] [United Kingdom] [Governance] [War and Peace] [Conflict] [Conflict Resolution] [Security] [United Nations] Image: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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12/26/2007
Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
Read moreFrom Earth Times Related: [France] [Chad] |
12/26/2007
More...Related: [United Kingdom] [Race Politics] Image: one game for all, without racism
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12/21/2007
New European Union market access regulations for developing countries may devastate livelihoods and undermine growth, warns an international charity.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam International Related: [Africa] [Asia and the Pacific] |
12/21/2007
Opposition yrityksistä huolimatta eduskunta ei saanut kehitysyhteistyömäärärahoja lisätyksi budjettiäänestyksessään keskiviikkona. Myös ministeri Paavo Väyrynen äänesti lisäysesitystä vastaan, vaikka vaati korotusta alun perin itse.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Finland] [International Cooperation] Image: © Pasi Nokelainen
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12/20/2007
Vaikka Suomi lisää kehitysyhteistyön määrärahoja 340 miljoonan euron verran tämän hallituskauden aikana, kehitysyhteistyön kansantuoteosuutta koskevat tavoitteet uhkaavat karata nopean talouskasvun takia. Eduskunta äänesti ensi vuoden määrärahoista keskiviikkona.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Finland] [International Cooperation] |
12/20/2007
A European Union-wide campaign for "adequate minimum income schemes" has been launched by the European Anti Poverty Network, to ensure an EU based on social justice and equal opportunities.
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12/19/2007
Poor countries will be denied up to £170 million this Christmas by supermarkets who fail to pay developing country suppliers a fair price for imported groceries, according to researchers.
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12/18/2007
About 60 per cent of annual turnover in UK retailing occurs during the Christmas period. A new briefing, The Carbon Cost of Christmas, exposes some of the biggest festival 'No-nos' followed by some big Christmas ‘Yes-yeses'.
Read moreFrom: New Economics Foundation Related: [United Kingdom] [Energy] [Consumption] |
12/18/2007
Käsitys Euroopan unionista maailmanlaajuisena valtana on vahvistumassa, kertoo saksalaisen tutkimussäätiön selvitys. Kyselyyn vastanneet suurten valtioiden kansalaiset katsoivat, että köyhyyden poistamisen tulisi olla jokaisen maailman valtion päätavoite.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen Eu-yhdistys Kehys ry Related: [Politics] |
12/17/2007
The City of London is criticised for paying out million of pounds in Christmas bonuses while denying many of the world's poorest countries the tax owed by British companies.
Read moreFrom: War on Want Related: [United Kingdom] |
12/17/2007
Sitoutuminen kehitysavun kasvattamiseen 0,7 prosenttiin bruttokansantulosta on hyvä tavoite, OECD:n kehitysapukomitea kiittelee Suomea vastajulkaisemassaan tutkintaraportissa. Sovituissa euromäärissä pysyminen on kuitenkin haastavaa, koska talous kasvaa niin nopeasti, sanoo puheenjohtaja Richard Manning.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Finland] [International Cooperation] |
12/14/2007
Some 2,000 children pass through UK holding centres each year. Their imprisonment breaches a key UN Convention, says Alice O'Keeffe.
Read moreFrom New Statesman Related: [United Kingdom] |
12/11/2007
Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen has demanded changes to the Finnish gun ownership law as a result of the events in Jokela. But how effective are gun laws in preventing death and injury, really?
Read moreFrom: SixDegrees magazine Related: [Finland] [Arms & Military] Image: - © Corporate Watch
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12/11/2007
Afrikka ei antanut Euroopan unionille periksi äskettäisessä huippukokouksessa vaan arvosteli EU:n taloudellisen kumppanuuden sopimuksia epäreiluiksi. Niin sanotut EPA-sopimukset hiertävät nyt myös EU:n ja Afrikan uutta "kumppanuutta". Lue myös Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskuksen ja Suomen Lähetysseuran artikkelit EPA-sopimuksista.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen Eu-yhdistys Kehys ry Related: [Africa] [Trade] Image: © World Bank
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12/11/2007
Shenanigans at the UN climate change conference in Bali: Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - a British climate sceptic who has already presented "The IPCC's Scientific Fraud" at one of the conference's many side-events - was called out of a room in which he was speaking and told he would be "thrown out by security" if he continued to hold press briefings within the conference compound. As usual these days, the confrontation has been captured on YouTube (UNmenace1. mov and UNmenace2.mov).
Read moreTuesday, Bali: Monckton strikes again. In a nearby hotel - not the UN conference centre - he is due to be part of a panel that will speak after a screening of the "anti" TV programme The Great Global Warming Swindle. From: OneWorld UK Related: [United Kingdom] [Indonesia] [Climate Change] [United Nations] |
12/10/2007
Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskuksen uusi puheenjohtaja Gunvor Kronman arvostelee Suomea nurkkakuntaisuudesta mutta kiittelee muun muassa YK:n roolin korostamista ja koulutuksen sekä tutkimuksen painottamista osana Suomen kehitysyhteistyötä.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Finland] [International Cooperation] Image: © Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
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12/10/2007
As the number of residence permit applications keeps on rising, Finnish society needs to ask itself many fundamental questions. One of the biggest is whether society is ready to become "responsible, caring and rewarding", in line with the official immigration policy programme.
Read moreFrom: SixDegrees magazine Related: [Finland] [Race Politics] |
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