NGOs face challenges operating in China

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in such areas as environment, health and social welfare are feeling the heat from Chinese authorities in advance of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Some nongovernmental organizations have been closed down and individuals have been placed under house arrest.
There are now more than 350,000 NGOs, according to official figures, but the large [...]

A Peace University may be realized

– Peace can not be enforced. Peace must be built. It is like building a house; maybe it’s possible to start building the roof. Anyway there has to be a foundation and something in between. These words come from Dr. Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, one of the Winners of the Right Livelihood Award 2007, at her [...]

China rebuilds Angola

China rebuilds Angola
2007-12-06 by ake

In Angola, tens of thousands of Chinese workers have come to rebuild a country devastated by a long civil war.

Since 2004, Angola has taken out $8-12bn in loans from China. Thanks to its huge oil deposits in the Gulf of Guinea, the former Portuguese colony has become China’s biggest African trading partner.
The [...]

A Decade of De-mining

Five years after signing the Ottawa Convention banning land mines, Afghanistan’s number of mine-related injuries has been almost halved, and 60% of the country has been cleared by de-mining experts. An $80 million funding offer from Canada on Monday may help Afghanistan, once one of the world’s most heavily mined countries, to finally free itself [...]

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

As MKFC Stockholm College mentioned before The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC

C) has started its sessions in Bali.

The Conference, hosted by the Government of Indonesia, brings together representatives of over 180 countries together with observers from intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The two week period includes the sessions of the [...]