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Sudanese journalists in training to cover first elections in 24 years

More than 300 journalists and media houses across Sudan will be trained to cover elections by a consortium of six national and international organisations in the lead-up to Sudan's nationwide elections in April 2010.

NPA gets go-ahead for third Lao province

NPA Friday signed an agreement to clear explosives in a third province in Laos.

Montenegro joins nations leading cluster bomb ban treaty

(London, 4 February 2010) – Montenegro’s ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 25 January places it among the first 30 states that will trigger the Convention’s entry into force, the Cluster Munition Coalition said today. Thirty ratifications are needed for the Convention to enter into force and become binding international law six months later; currently, 104 countries have signed and Montenegro is the 27th to ratify.

Support the victims in Haiti

The Haiti earthquake laid waste to an entire society. The need for emergency relief and reconstruction is enormous. .

Do as the UN says, Jens!

NPA, NOAS and Amnesty International have pulled together to put pressure on Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the Norwegian government to follow UNCHR's recommodations on refugee related issues.

Sudan is looking for You!

We are looking for independent and neutral monitors to monitor the media prior to the elections and during the elections 2010 on a voluntary basis.

Murders of Salvadoran environmentalist leaders

Sunday, December 20, the Salvadoran environmental activist Ramiro Rivera, member of the board of the Environmental Committee of Cabañas (CAC), was killed. Six days after, December 26, other CAC member, the 8 months pregnant Dora Santos was also assassinated. In June, this terrible succession started with the murder of the environmental leader Marcelo Rivera, also member of CAC.

Praise for political activisim in the field of mine clearance

The role as both a vocal political actor and a mine clearance operator makes Norwegian People’s Aid stand out from other organizations. This is concluded by NORAD’s evaluation of Norwegian People’s Aid mine clearance work over the last decade.

NPA assists in Laos after Typhoon Ketsana

NPA is contributing in the efforts to assist thousands of Lao farmers to resettle after more than 9,600 households were displaced when Typhoon Ketsana hit the country in September.

Moldova moves towards ridding its country of its Cluster Munitions Stockpiles

In a signing ceremony in Chisinau Moldova on the 14th December 2009, just over a year after signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo; Moldova has taken the step to begin the destruction of the remaining airdropped cluster bombs that are inherited remnants of the cold war era.

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