Tutti i temi: Danimarca

20.08.2007 Ilmastomuutosta hillitsevien päästöjen hillitseminen 60 prosentilla vuoteen 2050 mennessä maksaisi Pohjoismaille noin prosentin bruttokansantuotteesta, toteaa Pohjoismaiden ministerineuvoston tilaama raportti.

08.08.2007 COPENHAGEN, Aug 8 (OneWorld) - Throughout the past century, Scandinavian countries have been internationally respected for keeping their doors open to those fleeing wars and bloody conflicts at home. But recent policy decisions on immigration and asylum indicate that change may be in the offing.

16.11.2006 from Danish Wind Energy Association:
Thinking of installing a turbine? How do you work out whether it will work as you want it to and where you want it to? This excellent site gives you all the details you could possibly want. e.g. Click 'Know How' and take the 'Guided Tour'.

14.06.2006 In a case that has major implications for the treatment of Roma and asylum-seekers throughout Europe, Roma advocates in Denmark are suing the Danish Red Cross over the treatment of Roma from Kosovo whose appeal for asylum has been rejected.

08.05.2006 Many Muslims in Denmark believe that the recent controversy surrounding cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has ultimately sparked a positive political debate in their country.

17.03.2006 The world’s largest facility for demonstrating the technology of carbon dioxide capture from conventional power stations has been opened in Denmark this week.

16.02.2006 The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten says they were hoping to start a dialogue on self-censorship among those in artistic and cultural circles. Sounds like revisionist history, says the editor of a U.S.-based Chinese-language newspaper.

14.02.2006 A boycott of Danish goods in Egypt following publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper has been largely successful, going by market reports.

08.02.2006 Nothing good could ever come out of printing those caricatures. Doing it has nothing to do with freedom of expression. This debate article by Jan Oberg, himself a Dane, tells you why.

06.02.2006 Denmark has made an urgent appeal to Arab leaders to help prevent an escalation of Muslim anger over publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.

01.02.2006 A leading Danish newspaper has apologised for the offence caused by its controversial publication of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that provoked protests across the Middle East, while defending its right to commission and print them in the first place.

24.01.2006 Britain is ranked fifth best in the world at tackling domestic and global environmental problems - behind New Zealand, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic - in performance league tables to be launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week.

24.01.2006 Signing a climate saving agreement with WWF-Denmark, pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has pledged significant reductions in its global emissions. So far, ten corporations have become part of WWF's Climate Savers programme.

07.09.2005 Tanskan kehitysministerin, Ulla Tørnæsin mielestä kehitysyhteistyötä tekevien kansalaisjärjestöjen tiedotusbudjetille olisi parempaa käyttöä kehitysmaissa.
Kehitysyhteistyöjärjestöt ovat kritisoineet ministerin lausuntoa selittäen että tiedotustyö on välttämätöntä, jotta tanskalaiset ymmärtävät miten ja miksi heidän rahojaan käytetään.

01.09.2005 Kehitysyhteistyön määrällä, kehityspolitiikan johdonmukaisuudella ja kehitysmaihin suuntautuvien suorien sijoitusten määrällä mitattuna Tanska on johtava valtio maailmassa, Yhdysvatalainen tutkimuslaitus kertoo. Vertailussa seitsemänneksi sijoittuvan suomen keitysavun köyhiin maihin keskittyminen saa kiitosta. Suomen maahanmuuttopolitiikka taas arvosteltiin teollisuusmaiden häntäpäähän.

28.07.2004 La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos emitió su sentencia en un caso contra Colombia, que involucra la desaparición forzada de 19 comerciantes en la región de Magdalena Medio durante octubre de 1987. Este alto tribunal determinó por unanimidad que el Estado colombiano violó los derechos a la libertad personal, a la integridad personal y a la vida de todas las personas que hasta ahora se encuentran desaparecidas.

28.07.2004 El oriente antioqueño, que ocupa 7,000 km² y cuenta con 23 municipios, está ubicado en el noroccidental departamento de Antioquia. Es una de las regiones más militarizadas de Colombia: además de seis batallones del Ejército y numerosos destacamentos policiales, hay cuatro frentes guerrilleros —dos de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) y dos del Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)—, así como dos bloques paramilitares.

03.02.2004 U.S. democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and Wesley Clark have vowed to end the Global Gag Rule - which restricts NGOs funded by USAID family planning from using their money on abortion related services and issues.

03.11.2003 In Denmark, the radical shift in recent political debate about migration and asylum is registered in language as much as in public policy. Ulf Hedetoft charts the way that a new discourse is changing the way Danes talk to each other about the strangers in their midst.

07.11.2002 COPENHAGEN, Denmark, November 5, 2002 (ENS) - Danish retailers and toy importers have been given one year to suggest how phthalate plasticizers could be removed from toys for children aged three to six. Announced Monday by Environment Minister Hans Christian Schmidt, the initiative is thought to be the first in Europe aimed at items for children over three.