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Chulalongkorn University
Established
1917
Naming
Chulalongkorn University was established in 1917 by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) who named it after his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), who laid the foundations for modern education in Thailand.
Vision 2012-2017
Chulalongkorn University is Thailand’s source of knowledge and reference, a guiding light of wisdom for sustainable development.
Blackwell Publishing Asia
Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty. Ltd. operates as a book publisher. The company was incorporated in 1971 and is based in Milton, Australia. Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Wiley Publishing Australia Pty Ltd.
Global Land Outlook
The current pressures on land are huge and expected to continue growing: there is rapidly escalating competition between the demand for land functions that provide food, water, and energy, and those services that support and regulate all life cycles on Earth.
World Forum on Access to Land 2016
The goal of the WFAL 2016 had been to organise a world forum in 2016 to address the major issues linked to unequal access to land, natural resources (see The Call). Finally, the global assembly took place in Valencia, Spain (31st March, 1-2 April 2016) with more than 400 participants from 70 countries from today at the Global Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources.
Rural21
The international journal Rural 21 has dedicated more than 40 years to all topics surrounding rural development. Its ambition is to further those strategies and policies that strengthen rural areas of developing and newly industrialising countries and encourage their implementation. The journal addresses the complete range of relevant themes – from agriculture and fisheries via capacity building and education through to health and social security, energy supply and trade.
República Bolivariana de Venezuela
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El Presidente de la República, el Vicepresidente Ejecutivo y los Ministros, reunidos conjuntamente, integran el Consejo de Ministros. El Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela es el Jefe del Estado y del Ejecutivo Nacional, en cuya condición dirige la acción del Gobierno.
Government of West Bengal
The Government of West Bengal also known as the State Government of West Bengal, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of West Bengal and its 20 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of West Bengal, a judiciary and a legislative.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division[1] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage.[2][3] The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world.
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Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons
Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) is a collective of relatives of victims of enforced and involuntary disappearances in Kashmir. Disappearances often end in extra-judicial killings or death by torture. The APDP was formed in 1994 to organize efforts to seek justice and get information on the whereabouts of missing family members. It presently consists of family members of about one thousand victims. APDP actively campaigns for an end to the practice and international crime of involuntary and enforced disappearances at local, national and international platforms.
Associates for Development
A consulting company operating from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is capable of pooling together expertise of in-house and associated resource persons from developed and developing countries to address development issues facing the developing countries ADSL’s resource persons are drawn from academic and research institutes and from public and private sector entities.
ADSL’s approach to consulting for change strongly emphasizes on research needs and advocates recognition of research-policy linkages to achieve sustainable socio-economic changes.