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06.03.2007 Maud de Boer- Buquicchio, Sekretare e Përgjithshme e Këshillit të Evropës bëri një vizitë në Kombet e Bashkuara me qëllim promovimin e Konventës së Këshillit të Evropës për luftën kundër trafikimit të qënieve njerëzore (STCE No 197) traktat i hapur për ratifikim te të gjitha vendet e botës përfshirë edhe Shtetet e Bashkuara.

07.02.2007 Filmski odbor Bosanskohercegovačkog Filmskog Festivala (BHFF™ ) koji se već četvrtu godinu održava u Njujorku, poziva reditelje i producente da dostave svoje prijave za učestvovanje na Festivalu najkasnije do 31. marta 2007. godine. Filmski odbor će uzeti u razmatranje igrane i kratke filmove, dokumentarne, kratke dokumentarne i animirane filmove bosanskohercegovačkih reditelja ili filmova čija tema je Bosna i Hercegovina.

18.10.2006 Ovogodišnja lutrija za zelenu kartu je upravo počela, a prijave će se primati do 3. decembra u 6 popodne (po vremenu u Jugoistočnoj Evropi). Svi žitelji Evrope, sa izuzetkom Britanaca, Poljaka i Rusa mogu ove godine da učestvuju u Lutriji, ali je puno mogucih online prevara.

14.06.2006 OneWorld U.S. launched its Alternative Travel Guide. Explore the World, not just as a tourist, but as a caring global citizen! Find out about exciting, unique travel opportunities offered by nonprofits, so you can get to know people, not just places. Check out volunteer programs, study tours, internships and more!

01.06.2006 Reporters Without Borders today hailed a Californian appeal court’s “historic” decision on 26 May that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as other kinds of journalists. The ruling was issued in a case between the US electronics manufacturer Apple and websites that posted confidential information about some of its products.

29.05.2006 What does a Bosnian do when he, or she, wants to see a good film? Just go out and make it!! All the visitors of the third in a row Bosnia and Herzegovina Film Festival BHFF, held at the end of May of this year at the Antology Film Archives in New York, could testify that every joke has at least a trace of truth in it. The common denominator of the eight documentaries, two long features, seven short features and seven animated films presented at the BHFF was to be found in the subjects of identity, survival and justice in war-time and post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.

05.05.2006 OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), një bashkim i madh shoqatash, institucione akademike dhe industriale vendosën të zgjidhin problemin e rritjes së aksesit dhe rikthimit të dokumenteve elektronike qeveritare, dje uruan Organizatën Ndërkombëtare të Standarteve (ONS-ISO) për miratimin e OpenDocument Format si një standart ndërkombëtar, si dhe OASIS e cila krijoi dhe parashtroi formatin tek ISO.

04.05.2006 The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad crosssection of associations, academic institutions and industry dedicated to solving the problem of improving access and retrieval of electronic government documents, today congratulated the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for its sweeping approval of the OpenDocument Format as an international standard, as well as OASIS which created and submitted the format to ISO.

17.03.2006 Bednislav is a small state on the verge of dictatorship. Prezident Ninoslav Terzic promised reforms, but economic hardships still hit the country hard. Under the excuse of maintaining “national stability”, Terzic suspended civil rights and the forthcoming elections... The story sounds familiar? International Centre on Non-Violent Conflict launches a computer game that could help regime change through non-violent action.

17.03.2006 Bednislav je mala država na ivici diktature. Predsednik Ninoslav Terzić je obećao reforme, ali su ekonomske nedaće ipak pogodile zemlju. Pod izgovorom da mora da održi »nacionalnu stabilnost«, Terzić je ukinuo gradjanska prava kao i predstojeće izbore....Priča zvuči poznato?

30.06.2005 On Tuesday, June 27, the US Congress House of Representatives has adopted a resolution demanding that those responsible for the Srebrenica massacre be brought to justice. The US Senate watered down the text of the Resolution the next day.

26.10.2004 Read Noam Chomsky’s “Media, Propaganda and the System” (Mediji, Propaganda i Sistem) at the web-site of the Elektronicke Knjige online publisher.

28.06.2004 On May 30, members of the performance art collective Critical Art Ensemble were subpoenaed by the FBI. The FBI is planning to indict Steve Kurtz, a member of CAE before a grand jury on June 15, on unknown charges.

22.06.2004 Clanove umetnickog kolektiva Critical Art Ensemble je na sud pozvao FBI, na osnovu odredbi americkog patriotskog akta. CAE se nalazi pod istragom zbog koriscenja opreme i biotehnoloskog materijala koji se koristi u naucnim eksperimentima, da bi napravili umetnicke radove koji ispituju odnose izmedju ekonomije, politike i biotehnologije.
Critical Art Ensemble se bavi produkcijom performansa i teorijskih radova od 1987. godine, analizirajuci odnos politicke realnosti i tehnologije. Osam umetnika i univerzitetskih profesora koji se terete u ovom slucaju su: Adele Henderson, direktor art departmenta na Univerzitetu u Bafalu; Andrew Johnson, profesor umetnosti na Univerzitetu u Bafalu; Paul Vanouse, profesor umetnosti na Univerzitetu u Bafalu; Beatriz da Costa, profesor umetnosti na UCI; Steven Barnes, FSU; Dorian Burr, Beverly Schlee i Claire Pentecost.

24.02.2004 A summary of events and issues at the Fourth World Social Forum (WDF) in Mumbai, India held from January 16-21, 2004.

24.02.2004 Michael Edwards’s book Civil Society is published by Polity Press in association with Blackwell in North America. He is Director of the Governance and Civil Society Program at the Ford Foundation in New York.

Read Michael Edwards's guest editorial on the subject of Civil Society in the world.