Global Partnerships

31.05.2006 Net private capital flows to developing countries reached a record high of $491 billion in 2005, driven by privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, external debt refinancing, as well as strong investor interest in local-currency bond markets in Asia and Latin America, says the World Bank’s annual 2006 Global Development Finance report.

19.05.2006 A senior United Nations official began the first high-level talks, in more than two years, between the world body and the Government of Myanmar, bearing a clear message about the need to restore democracy and full human rights in the South Asian country.

05.05.2006 Maja Daruwala, Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, has called for careful scrutiny of candidates that are standing for election to the United Nation’s new Human Rights Council on 9th May, 2006. She said that the election of its members will set the Council’s course for many years to come but there are countries standing for election that do not protect human rights within their own borders.