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Mirjam van Reisen benoemd tot nieuw bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV)
3 May 2013
Net voor haar abdicatie heeft Koningin Beatrix Prof. Dr. Mirjam van Reisen beëdigd als bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV) en daarbinnen voorzitter Commissie Ontwikkelingssamenwerking; het instituut dat de regering en de Staten-Generaal adviseert over het buitenlandse beleid.
South Africa: The Great South African Cell Phone Rip-Off
10 December 2012
Can South Africa learn from Venezuela when looking at state telecommunications provider like CANTV?
Our Democracy instead of Their Austerity
13 November 2012
We call for a European permanent mobilization to support the fights against the crisis and build a future for everyone in Europe and in the world.
Grote zorgen over financiering bedrijven met geld Ontwikkelingssamenwerking
1 November 2012
De Fair, Green & Global Alliance maakt zich grote zorgen over de plannen in het nieuwe regeerakkoord om een nog groter deel van het budget voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking via de private sector te besteden. Uit onderzoek van SOMO, ActionAid en Both ENDS blijkt dat het niet gegarandeerd is dat de steun aan de private sector leidt tot enige verbetering van de leefomstandigheden van de inwoners van de landen waarin ze werken.
Final Declaration 9th Asia- Europe People’s Forum
23 October 2012
Over 1,000 women and men, representing people’s organisations and citizens from Asia and Europe joined together at the 9th Asia Europe People’s Forum under the title “People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens forCitizens”
Civil society wants social protection for Southeast Asians
18 October 2012
Civil society participants to the AEPF are demanding that their governments provide a “rights-based, universal, state-underwritten, legislated, and comprehensive” social protection system.
EU Commission Forces Crisis-hit Countries to Privatise Water
17 October 2012
The European Commission is deliberately promoting privatisation of water services as one of the conditions of bailouts, it acknowledged in a letter to civil society groups.
No single course for providing water
23 March 2012
Two new books seek to challenge the claims that anti-privatisation activists present infinite criticisms but few alternatives.
Philippines: Party-list Legislators Often Forgotten in Poll
4 April 2010
The election of party-list legislators in the Philippines Congress was meant to counter the elitist and often corrupt system of district-level politics.
Left Call for Public Wealth, World Peace and Climate Justice
8 October 2009
Declaration timed with conference on Crisis Capitalism in Brussels in October 2009.
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