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With the large and diverse role that contractors play in supporting U.S. troops in theater, from food to fuel, it is critical to maintain accountability and visibility of government furnished property, among other assets. Here, an Afghan contracted employee of Fluor cuts potatoes at the Grady Dining Facility May 15 at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. (Photo by Jon Connor, U.S. Army Sustainment Command Public Affairs)
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From the Timeline: On its 60th anniversary, The Asia Foundation seeks to focus international attention on six critical issues facing Asia, including transparency and accountability in government. Accountable government is critical to sustainable growth in Asia, particularly in countries experiencing rapid social and economic change. As more Asian countries achieve middle-income status, citizen demands for good government are growing. Failure to address these demands may relegate many Asian countries to economic stagnation, social unrest, and political instability.
Photo: Sara Farid
Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is hosting four community forums across the city to provide residents the opportunity to speak or submit written comments on improving the accountability, oversight and training of Chicago’s police officers.
This is photographs from Tuesday, February 2.
Hosted by Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
JLM Life Center
2622 W. Jackson Blvd.
More info: chicagopatf.org/events/
23 November 2015
Worldhotel Bel Air, The Hague, Netherlands
Photos: Kris Kotarski, Wayamo Foundation.
The Wayamo Foundation has launched the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability on the sidelines of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties at an event entitled “Africa and the ICC - Looking Back, Moving Forward” co-hosted by the governments of Botswana, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Africa Group for Justice and Accountability is an independent group of senior African experts on international criminal law and human rights, including political figures, members of international and domestic tribunals, and human rights advocates. The Group shall support efforts to strengthen justice and accountability measures in Africa through domestic and regional capacity building, advice and outreach, and enhancing cooperation between Africa and the International Criminal Court.
Speakers at the side event included Africa Group members:
• Femi Falana (Nigeria) Human rights activist and lawyer
• Hassan Bubacar Jallow (Gambia) Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
• Richard Goldstone (South Africa) Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia
• Athaliah Molokomme (Botswana) Attorney General of Botswana
• Navi Pillay (South Africa) Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Fatiha Serour (Algeria) Director of Serour Associates for Inclusion and Equity
Not present in The Hague were group members:
• Betty Kaari Murungi (Kenya)
Independent Consultant on Human Rights and Transitional Justice
• Mohamed Chande Othman (Tanzania)
Chief Justice of Tanzania
• Abdul Tejan-Cole (Sierra Leone)
Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.
The new group was launched as part of Wayamo's ongoing strategies aimed at improving the relationship between Africa and the ICC as well as strengthening complementarity through capacity building. Bettina Ambach, the Director of the Wayamo Foundation, which will act as the Groups’ Secretariat, described it as “an open and interactive forum where the concerns of African citizens and states can be heard.”
Theatre artists staging sit-in Sept 8, 2005 protesting their colleagues lost-lives at Beni Suef theatre fire days earlier.
Photo by Nora Younis
Creative for our efforts to help activists bring accountability to their Members of Congress during Congressional recesses.
Peaceful and vocal protests at Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25. Louisville protests intensified the calls for the firing and charges of three Louisville Metro Police Department officers who fired multiple rounds into a Louisville apartment during a botched "no-knock" raid on Friday, March 13, 2020, killing Breonna Taylor.
2019-02-11: Letsie III, King of Lesotho addressing the audience at The African Leaders For Nutrition Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard.
11 July 2012 - Afghan civil society has demanded an active role in decision making, policy development and monitoring of the policy implementations within the framework of mutual accountability endorsed in the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan earlier this week.
The representatives of Afghan civil society, who attended the International Conference on Afghanistan in Tokyo, addressed a press conference today upon their return to Kabul.
Hayatullah Hayat, the spokesman of the Afghan civil society said that the international community has made funding commitments up to 2024 but these funding is not clear on yearly basis. He demanded from the international community to specify the funding commitments for each year in the lead up to 2024.
“Funding commitments are also not clear for priority sectors such as agriculture, education and health,” said Hayatullah. “Afghan Government should strictly consider issues of human rights and environment protection while awarding contracts to the foreign countries in the mining sector.”
The civil society representatives also demanded from the Afghan government to share with them reports of Financial Management Policy, which has been endorsed for up to December 2012.
Another speaker in the press conference, Ajmal Balochzada said he told that participants of the Tokyo Conference that Afghan government should accelerate its efforts on anti-corruption, anti-terrorism, good governance, human rights, women’s rights and rule of law and the flow of international funding should be linked with progress on these matters.
“In the wake of its past ten-year performance, concerns exist among the international community on the ability of the Afghan Government to have any significant achievement during the coming two years,” said Balochzada.
A total of 30 representatives of the Afghan civil society – 50 per cent of them being women – travelled to Tokyo last week to attend an international conference of civil society in Tokyo on 7 July 2012 and the main international conference a day later.
These representatives were elected earlier in a national gathering of civil society organizations in Kabul to advocate on behalf of civil society organizations and people of Afghanistan on key national issues with the international and national decision makers in Tokyo.
Over 70 Government representatives and international organizations participated in the daylong conference, which agreed to provide US$ 16 billion to meet Afghanistan’s economic and development needs through 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Conference that the UN would extend “strong support” to Afghanistan throughout the Transformation Decade, 2015-2025, while calling on donors to continue to keep the flow of their assistance. The UN chief also called on Afghanistan to play its part according to the Mutual Accountability Framework endorsed by the Conference.
Photo: UNAMA / Fardin Waezi
Commonwealth People's Forum 2018 at the Queen Elizabeth 11 Conference Centre Westminster, London UK.
London April 18th 2018
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Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is hosting four community forums across the city to provide residents the opportunity to speak or submit written comments on improving the accountability, oversight and training of Chicago’s police officers.
This is photographs from Tuesday, February 2.
Hosted by Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
JLM Life Center
2622 W. Jackson Blvd.
More info: chicagopatf.org/events/
I have been doing pretty good actually with eating better. I've been using the iphone app called Lose It and I have been!
I have never counted calories before and it is interesting to me how many are in different foods. That may get old but, for now, it is kind of a happy experiment.
Down 7 lbs from the beginning of AW. I'll take it!
"Government is accountable for the disappearances!"~ Reverend Father.M.Sathivel.
1000 Days ~ "Where is Prageeth?"
Please click passionparade.blogspot.com/2012/10/1000-days-where-is-pra... to read and view untold stories of the disappeared in Sri Lanka.
Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is hosting four community forums across the city to provide residents the opportunity to speak or submit written comments on improving the accountability, oversight and training of Chicago’s police officers.
This is photographs from Tuesday, February 2.
Hosted by Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
JLM Life Center
2622 W. Jackson Blvd.
More info: chicagopatf.org/events/
KABUL, 05 June 2016 - More than 50 people including Assadullah Zamir Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Hamed Akram Kabul Governor, Gabriella Iribarne Head of UNAMA Central Regional Office, directors of different sectors of ministry of Agricultures, representative from civil society organizations, members of District Development Councils, were attended the event. Participants talked about the opportunity and challenges that farmers faced in term of agriculture, irrigation and husbandry and the role and responsibility of government authority in improving agriculture sectors including farmers access to market and transparency and accountability.
Panel Discussion Government-Civil Society on Accountability and Transparency of Agriculture Development and Access to Market in Kabul.
Photo by UNAMA / Fardin Waezi.
Weak accountability leads to government failures or tragedies that affect the public – so what can be done to strengthen it?
The Institute for Government Launched it's report Accountability in modern government - recommendations for change, based on a year-long consultation and input from a high-profile advisory group.
To discuss the findings of the report, our panel:
Rt Hon Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Labour MP for Barking, former Chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee
Sir Richard Mottram, Visiting Professor at the LSE, former Permanent Secretary
Jonathan Slater, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education
The report was introduced by Benoit Guerin, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government, and the event was chaired by Emma Norris, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IFGAccountability
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Demonstration of the number of American troops who have been killed in the Iraq war. Later in the day, the flag was lowered to half-mast to indicate another death had just happened.
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Throughout the month of February, the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force is hosting four community forums across the city to provide residents the opportunity to speak or submit written comments on improving the accountability, oversight and training of Chicago’s police officers.
This is photographs from Tuesday, February 2.
Hosted by Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
JLM Life Center
2622 W. Jackson Blvd.
More info: chicagopatf.org/events/
11 July 2012 - Afghan civil society has demanded an active role in decision making, policy development and monitoring of the policy implementations within the framework of mutual accountability endorsed in the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan earlier this week.
The representatives of Afghan civil society, who attended the International Conference on Afghanistan in Tokyo, addressed a press conference today upon their return to Kabul.
Hayatullah Hayat, the spokesman of the Afghan civil society said that the international community has made funding commitments up to 2024 but these funding is not clear on yearly basis. He demanded from the international community to specify the funding commitments for each year in the lead up to 2024.
“Funding commitments are also not clear for priority sectors such as agriculture, education and health,” said Hayatullah. “Afghan Government should strictly consider issues of human rights and environment protection while awarding contracts to the foreign countries in the mining sector.”
The civil society representatives also demanded from the Afghan government to share with them reports of Financial Management Policy, which has been endorsed for up to December 2012.
Another speaker in the press conference, Ajmal Balochzada said he told that participants of the Tokyo Conference that Afghan government should accelerate its efforts on anti-corruption, anti-terrorism, good governance, human rights, women’s rights and rule of law and the flow of international funding should be linked with progress on these matters.
“In the wake of its past ten-year performance, concerns exist among the international community on the ability of the Afghan Government to have any significant achievement during the coming two years,” said Balochzada.
A total of 30 representatives of the Afghan civil society – 50 per cent of them being women – travelled to Tokyo last week to attend an international conference of civil society in Tokyo on 7 July 2012 and the main international conference a day later.
These representatives were elected earlier in a national gathering of civil society organizations in Kabul to advocate on behalf of civil society organizations and people of Afghanistan on key national issues with the international and national decision makers in Tokyo.
Over 70 Government representatives and international organizations participated in the daylong conference, which agreed to provide US$ 16 billion to meet Afghanistan’s economic and development needs through 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Conference that the UN would extend “strong support” to Afghanistan throughout the Transformation Decade, 2015-2025, while calling on donors to continue to keep the flow of their assistance. The UN chief also called on Afghanistan to play its part according to the Mutual Accountability Framework endorsed by the Conference.
Photo: UNAMA / Fardin Waezi