The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) realised on 15 February 2012 “Attacks on the Press”, a yearly survey aimed at evaluating the level of freedom in the international press.
The World Bank (WB) introduces a new Ipad application in December 2011, with the aim of spreading its World Development Report (WDR) 2012.
On 2-3 December 2011 in Caracas (Venezuela), 33 Heads of State of the American continent met to launch the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), under the Presidency pro tempore of Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) and Sebastián Piñera (Chile).
The statement has already been endorsed by Sol General Assembly and a number of others networks and was, in its original form (for the G20) endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Michael Hardt and others.
On September 3 in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) took place the latest summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), that celebrated its 20th anniversary.
The final countdown towards the launch of the first transnational European Citizen Initiative (ECI) has started.
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is organizing an International Training Programme on “Peace and Security in Africa” in order to foster the capacity of conflict management, peacemaking and peacebuilding of regional organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
On 10 November 2011, in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), will be held a Roundtable for ASEAN Business Leaders organized by the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights in co-operation with local partners and the UN Global Compact. The theme will be “Implementing Corporate Respect for Human Rights”.
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