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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.
From Daily Telegraph
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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.
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [Afghanistan] [United Kingdom] [Governance] [War and Peace] [Conflict] [Conflict Resolution] [Security] [United Nations]
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.
From Earth Times
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Related: [France] [Chad]
12/21/2007 New European Union market access regulations for developing countries may devastate livelihoods and undermine growth, warns an international charity.
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From: 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.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Finland] [International Cooperation]
Image: © Pasi Nokelainen
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.
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From: 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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Related: [United Kingdom]
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'.
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From: 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.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen Eu-yhdistys Kehys ry
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12/17/2007 The sacking of the European Fisheries Council was demanded by 200 Greenpeace activists from 14 European countries this morning when they blocked the seven entrances to the EU building where the Council was meeting to determine catch levels for 2008.
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Image: © WWF
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.
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From: 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.
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From: 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.
From New Statesman
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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?
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From: SixDegrees magazine
Related: [Finland] [Arms & Military]
Image: - © Corporate Watch
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.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöjen Eu-yhdistys Kehys ry
Related: [Africa] [Trade]
Image: © World Bank
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).
Tuesday, 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.
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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.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Finland] [International Cooperation]
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.
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From: SixDegrees magazine
Related: [Finland] [Race Politics]
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