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More than 100 civil society organizations from around the world demand WTO trade ministers to discard the Doha Agenda and begin a new multilateral trading system approach.

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Over the last two years, womens groups have been monitoring and participating in the UN reform process and campaigning to ensure the inclusion of gender equality and womens empowerment in the UNs reform agenda. Strategically, womens groups have been working to influence the UN System-wide Coherence Panel which was formed in February 2006 to make recommendations about how the UN should be restructured, address emerging challenges which were mostly drawn from the 2005 UN World Summit, and discuss new strategies for meeting internationally agreed goals.

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Civil society in South Africa played a key role in fighting their countrys apartheid system of government. More than a decade after South Africas transition to democratic rule, civil society has remained vibrant, active, and very vocal in raising national issues and concerns. The scenario today, however, is changing, with shrinking and harder-to-access funds, donor politics, bureaucracy, and a lurking restrictive law aimed at controlling non-government organisations (NGOs) that threaten to compromise civil societys ability to freely and fully engage in advocacy.

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AIDS turned 25 years old this June, and while its incidence is slowing
down globally, new infections continue to increase in certain regions
and countries. It seems that the will of the disease is stronger than
efforts to stop it.

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Nominations for the 2006 Asia Pacific Mediation Forum (APMF) Peace Prize are now open.

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by Bianca Miglioretto, Radio and Alternative Media Officer, Isis International-Manila
Seminar on International Women's Human Rights
May 17, 2006, Miriam College, Quezon City

I am very delighted that I am invited to do this presentation precisely on the World Information Society Day. Has anyone here heard of the World Information Society Day? Did you know that it is on this day? No wonder if you don't, since it is the first time this day is celebrated. Does anyone know how this came about?