Full Coverage: Social exclusion

31.05.2006 Disability is not within a person but it is out there in the physical and social environment in the shape of barriers put in place by the non-disabled majority. Remove those barriers and the disabled can become functionally active and productive citizens of this country. Zahid Abdullah in The News speaks of the double discrimination against disabled women and girls and possible ways out.

29.05.2006 For the first time in the history of India, more than 5 million Musahars - the most disadvantaged section of India's Dalit Population in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal – are joining hands to wage struggles against their miserable conditions in Independent India.

26.05.2006 According to the Denied a Future? 2001-2006: The Right to Education for Roma Children in B&H survey, published by Save the Children UK in April 2006, there are still Roma communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which not a single child is included in the elementary education.

25.05.2006 Affirmative action, not reservations, appears to be the call of the day. However, our Parliament, in its wisdom, has decided in favour of quotas. In his work on affirmative action, Nathan Glazer, the pre-eminent sociologist of ethnicity and group and individual rights, argued that at a crucial juncture, a society faces both ways - in favour of group and in favour of individual rights.

25.05.2006 UNICEF's malnutrition is directly linked with backward caste system and needs to resolved accordingly.

18.05.2006 It will take into account the interests of all sections Arjun Singh reiterates Government's commitment to reservation Says there is no difference of opinion on the issue

16.05.2006 For nearly two decades, Tamil Selvi has been running a vegetable stall on the dusty corner of a street in a residential area in Madurai, a major town in southern Tamil Nadu, India. Soma Basu, in Terra Viva, highlights the situation of street vendors in the state.

15.05.2006 The Care International in SCG and the Democratic Association of the Roma started the first educational programme for collectors of materials for recycling. The programme consists of three-month series of trainings in the fields of occupational protection, traffick regulations education, sorting of waste, technology for recycling of waste plastics and paper and environmental protection.

08.05.2006

08.05.2006 The controversy over proposed reservation in the private sector for SCs, STs and OBCs and in higher educational institutions is yet to be settled but the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment has gone a step further — it has asked NGOs aided by the Centre to provide job reservations in their projects.

06.05.2006 Even as the Narmada dam case comes up for hearing in the Supreme Court for the third time in a month, on May 8, 2006, NBA activists along with the Delhi Solidarity Group (a support group of the NBA constituting Delhi based activists and NGOs) appeal to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to uphold the human rights of affected people in the Narmada valley.