Full Coverage: Population

18.12.2007 Indian capital New Delhi is busy transforming itself into a modern city before the Commonwealth Games to be held in 2010. In the process, Delhi’s poor are being uprooted and left alone to fend for themselves.

14.12.2007 Multinational drug companies and research institutions find places like India a prime destination for holding unethical clinical trials due to lax regulations there. It is estimated that 40% of these trials now are taking place in poorer countries of the world.

13.12.2007 Thousands of kilometers of protective embankments and dykes in Bangladesh’s southern coastal belt had been left severely damaged by the cyclone that hit the country in mid-November. People now face a risk of hunger if these protective walls are not repaired.

13.12.2007 The poor of Karachi in the Sindh province of Pakistan face evictions from the main city. They are being thrown out on the outskirts to make way for global capital and emerging middle class.

12.12.2007 For the Tharu, a group of people native to southwestern Nepal, freedom from years of bonded labor initially meant being kicked out into a completely foreign society, forming small communities on marginal land, and falling deeper into poverty. Now, youth programs that promote education are empowering the Tharu's younger generations to repair the injustices and indignities of the preceding generations.

06.12.2007 Earthquake of 2004 and the tsunami that followed had destroyed the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, a part of India in the Bay of Bengal. Tourists stopped flocking the picturesque islands out of fear. The worried government began promoting tourism by sending its employees for excursions granting them leave travel concession but this policy is now proving to be disastrous.