Full Coverage: Population

26.04.2006 The senior United Nations envoy to Kosovo today hailed a ground-breaking ceremony marking the start of reconstruction at the Roma Mahala neighbourhood that will allow displaced people to return to their homes there.

25.04.2006 Fadil Maloku, Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy and Ethnic Relations of Kosovo and Professor of Globalization and Civilizations at the UP Sociology Department, discusses the possible models for solution of the autonomy of ethnic minorities in Kosovo after the negotiations on the final status of the province are completed.

24.04.2006 The Centre was committed to provide reservation for Dalits in private sector, Meira Kumar, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, said at a national seminar on Babu Jagjivan Ram's contribution to nation building, Hydrabad.

19.04.2006 Three years after a community health insurance scheme was implemented by the government of Karnataka and Karuna Trust, around 200,000 poor people have benefited, paying annual premiums of just Rs 30 per year for insurance cover of Rs 50 per day of hospitalisation

19.04.2006 ‘Muslims insecure, feel inferior in UP; Rajasthan poor in minority affairs’ reveals the initial findings of the Prime Minister’s High Level Committee, headed by Justice (retd) Rajinder Sachar.

19.04.2006 PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday put job quotas in the private sector on the national agenda by calling on industry to voluntarily extend affirmative action, saying it was time companies acknowledged the value of diversity and broad-based their workforce.

18.04.2006 The first step towards eradicating poverty is to understand just how many of us are poor, and what that means. Thus far the government's measurement of poverty has simply been a self-serving one, and it's time we adopted a more honest calculation, writes Dilip D'Souza.

17.04.2006 Students from Other Backward Classes are much better off than their counterparts in the Muslim, Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe communities, a national survey on school dropout rates has found.

11.04.2006 The main topic of discussion of the fourth Annual Conference of the Kosovo Bosniacs Forum, held last Saturday in Prishtina, were the economic problems of the Bosniak community in Kosovo. The Conference requested, once again, full equality for Bosniacs to and their inclusion in all areas of living.

07.04.2006 Thanks to the activities of the non-govermental organizations, the Government of Montenegro and the international community, the status of Roma in Montegengro has improved significantly over the past several years, reports the Roma Scholarship Foundation, on the occasion of April 8, International Day of the Roma.