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This article explores the popular application of global positioning systems (GPS), mobile directional devices, interactive mapping tools and social networks feeding a boom in mapping. Community-based…
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, John Ruggie. The report was scheduled to be…
FSS' electronic newsletter, FSS UPDATE, is meant to facilitate networking, exchange of information and sharing of experience among members of civil society and the research community. It covers…
An international conference aimed, among others, at facilitating for policy makers and members of the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to share from international experiences in the creation of an…
The ONI collects global data on Internet filtering using technical and contextual tools. Its analysis is based on a fusion of expert (qualitative) and statistical (quantitative) methods, and…
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) in collaboration with the Southern Africa Trust held thefirst Consultative Dialogue with African civil society organisations under the theme“Building Effective…
The Government of Rwanda (GoR) defines good governance as: "the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority to manage the nation's affairs and the complex mechanisms,…
The observatory is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics, and technology…
The guidelines address enforcementof national laws and regulationsimplementing MEAs in a broad context,under which States developlaws and institutions that support effectiveenforcement and pursue…
This paper by the UNEP Director of Environmental Policy Implementation focuses on the guidelines adopted by the UNEP Governing Council in 2002. The guidelines seek to engage countries through a menu…