A SHARED HOME

正The 2018 SCO Summit highlights the region’s shared future The 18th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO)attracted immense global attention and in particular was a magnet for both regional and worldwide media because it was the first time that otherwise archrivals     

Routes of funding,roots of trust? Northern NGOs,Southern NGOs,donors, and the rise of direct funding

This paper, based on a review of SIDA's funding of NGOs in Bangladesh, explores the changing relationships between bilateral donors, Northern NGOs (NNGOs), and Southern NGOs (SNGOs). It compares direct and indirect funding routes between donors and SNGOs. Most SIDA funding of SNGOs was previously undertaken through Swedish NGOs. As SNGO competence and capacity has increased through their own efforts at professionalisation, through wider recognition and support from government and by the provision of 'capacity building' partnerships with NNGOs, these Southern organisations have taken up positions within the burgeoning 'third sectors' of aid-recipient countries alongside the governmental and business sectors. SIDA has increasingly funded SNGOs directly through its Dhaka office. The paper sets out to address two main themes in the context of Swedish aid to NGOs in Bangladesh. Firstly, as bilateral donors provide an increasing proportion of their resources to NGOs, how can sound and responsible funding relationships based on mutual trust be built between bilateral donors and NGOs? Secondly, how can NNGOs work usefully in contexts where the number and capacity of local SNGOs has expanded significantly?     

Address of Foreign Minister of Pakistan at SIIS(Shanghai,24 February 2010)

<正>Honorable President, Distinguished Scholars, Ladies and Gentlemen, I consider it a special privilege to speak at the prestigious Shanghai institutes for international studies(SIIS).This institute has come to signify the intellectual vigour of the great Chinese nation.Through its extensive web of institutes and centers of learning,the SIIS encapsulates the rich thought and intellectual traditions of a civilization that spans 5 millenniums.This is indeed a heritage in which you,as scholars,can take justifiable pride.     

Female student athletes’ perceptions of acceptability and the occurrence of sexual-related behaviour by their coaches in India

The current study assessed the perceptions of acceptable sexual behaviour of coaches and the occurrence of sexual harassment among female student in India. A sample of 180 Indian female student-athletes at intercollegiate and inter-university levels with male coaches participated in this study. A questionnaire on sport-specific Touch and Behaviour versus Unwanted Intimacy from coaches (Vanden Auweele et al., 2008), consisting of 41 items on a 5-point rating scale was used. The participants were asked to indicate the acceptability of specific coaching behaviour as well as the occurrence of the behaviour represented in each item. The acceptability of the behaviour was determined by means and standard deviations, while the occurrence was determined by frequencies. Factor analysis was performed to determine the structure of the coaches’ behaviour and athletes’ acceptability thereof, which yielded four factors. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the extracted items on each factor. Two factors, namely, unwanted sexual behaviour and inappropriate verbal and physical sexual behaviour, were regarded by athletes as very serious and unacceptable coach behaviour, while a third factor represented context-dependent suspicious behaviour (a grey area in which athletes differ in their opinion) and was perceived to be serious and unacceptable. A fourth factor represented acceptable behaviour. The occurrence of very serious and unacceptable behaviour was reported by 31% of the female athletes.     

Connecting Through Mountains

<正>Pakistan is committed to the Belt and Road Initiative The longstanding friendship between Pakistan and China is based on mutual respect, equality and common benefit as wel as noninterference in each other’s internal affairs. This friendship has stood steadfast despite vicissitudes in political, economic and     

The Decade of International Engagement in Afghanistan

As a result of the Bonn and Tokyo Conferences when extensive international engagement began in Afghanistan in early 2002,hopes rose high that now peace and stability would be restored in this war ravaged country.Given the scale of the commitment and excitement demonstrated by the international community to combat terrorism and help Afghanistan in its overall reconstruction process,it appeared that extensive political and economic activities would soon revive that would help in ending the decades-long miseries of the poor Afghan nation.In the immediate aftermath a significant performance was also recorded in some spheres,such as: On diplomatic front,it helped finish Afghanistan' s acute isolation among the world nations that it was faced with during the Taliban rule.