Full Coverage: Food

30.08.2006 Floods in India have devastated many parts of the country bringing misery to millions of people. Four hundred people are confirmed dead, but relief organisations fear that the final figure will run into thousands. With many communities still cut off, ActionAid is providing relief supplies and medicines to victims as well as helping to evacuate those still in danger.

30.08.2006 The Saharias - an ancient tribe of the north Indian desert state of Rajasthan - who have been discriminated against and denied government food security programmes have fought with the help of NGOs to seek justice. After a fact-finding mission by the government ration cards have been given to people and ration shops have been opened for them.

18.08.2006 Even as the countryÂ’s highest rights body recommends that political leaders and civil servants should be punished if they do not address the problems related to hunger and starvation, rights groups have alleged that official neglect caused two recent starvation deaths in hunger-endemic areas of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

03.08.2006 The Roditelj (Parent) Association and MAMA magazine will mark, on Sunday, August 6, the International Breastfeeding Week, with an action in Kalemegdan Park, in the garden of the “Cvijeta Zuzoric Pavilion”.