Full Coverage: Social exclusion

25.11.2006 SAN JOSE DE SECCE, Peru, Nov 24 (IPS) - Isabel Limancca can express herself much better in Quechua. But she speaks Spanish well enough to wage a struggle against the Peruvian state from this remote town in Peru's southern Andean highlands.

24.11.2006 The Panchayat Presidentship is not a bed of roses to the newly elected Dalit presidents in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu as a majority of them remain sheer puppets in the hands of the upper castes.

The recent gruesome murder of the newly elected panchayat president belongs to dalit community in Tirunelveli district of sourther Tamil Nadu (India), has once again proved that no political reservation in the local body elections would bring out any change in the plight of the entire Dalit community that remains thrown to the wolves under the oppression of the caste Hindus.

21.11.2006 The Rajinder Sachar committee has said that Muslim community was "lagging behind" other religious groups in development indicators and has asked the Government to frame appropriate programmes to address its educational and economic backwardness.

17.11.2006 A single most casue of Dalits atrocities in India are economic and in most cases, upper caste Hindus do not take kindly to the economic prosperity of a few Dalit families says Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar

16.11.2006 According to a report released earlier today, the Ministry of Interior adopted a decision to grant asylum to a seeker, for the first time in Croatia. Asylum was granted to a female Sudanese national who sought asylum on basis of violation of religious freedoms and sexual mutilation.

15.11.2006 The NGO, National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) mainly orgainsed events related dalit's rights to land, education and other socio-economic rights at par with other communities including seminar on dalits rights to development and also discussion on India's development goals and dalits status and policy intervention especially in budget allocation at ISF 2006, New Delhi.

09.11.2006 India Social Forum 2006 event is being held at Exhibition Ground, Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Delhi from 9th to 13th November, 2006. It aims to strives for 'Building another World: visions for future'

09.11.2006 NDTV

08.11.2006 India, which has long prided itself as a shining example of democracy and religious-cultural pluralism, is being forced to contend with an unpleasant truth: the foundations of its claim to religious integration and harmony may be far shakier than earlier believed

06.11.2006 Viktorija Vojnic-Hajduk and her son Ivan were found in their decrepit house in Subotica, several days after they both died of hunger, report the Belgrade based media.

03.11.2006 Conceding that the benefits of developmental schemes had not "flowed equitably to the eligible sections among the minorities," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said they should get a fair share