Full Coverage: Social exclusion

27.06.2006

26.06.2006 One of the most awkward - and yet, strangely compelling - things about journalism is that sometimes your work makes you hold a mirror to your own life. This past week, a quiet, but determined 16-year-old became an unexpected reflection of my education. Barkha Dutt reflects.

23.06.2006 Manual scavenging may have been banned in India for over a decade but barely 40 km from the capital city New Delhi, people belonging to the lower caste in Uttar Pradesh continue to be employed to dispose of other people’s excreta. Although the authorities seem to be aware that this inhuman practice is still going on, they are unwilling to take any action.

21.06.2006 Starting in 2000, the UN decision established the June 20 as the International Day of the Refugees. On the occasion of the International Day of the Refugees, the Serb Democratic Forum (SDF) and the Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) came out with a public warning about the discrimination and weak solutions for problems faced by returnees and asylum seekers in Croatia.

19.06.2006 The Women Associations' Joint Struggle Committee (WAJSC) on Saturday demanded that the government include women in the interim constitution drafting committee formed on Friday.

19.06.2006 Indian concerns on women's land and resource rights will find voice at the Third World Urban Forum being held in Vancouver from 19th to 23rd June 2006.

18.06.2006 In a society that frowns upon alternate lifestyles, most lesbians in this country prefer to live their "illegal" love lives under the quilt.

16.06.2006 At a meeting organised by GAATW in Bangkok, Thailand, lawyers and human rights workers, from ten countries, agreed on a plan of action to increase access to justice for victims of human trafficking.

12.06.2006 In 1955 Nepal's revised civil code outlawed untouchability; in 2002 the government created the National Dalit Commission; and three years ago a new leadership pledged to lay charges against anyone accused of discriminating against untouchables, also known as dalits.

05.06.2006 The Council of Europe and the European Commission announce their third Joint Project: Equal Rights and treatment for Roma in SEE, to be developed in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and Macedonia, from 2006 to 2007.

05.06.2006 Given the constitutional provisions for the uplift of the weaker sections since the 1950s, and the chaotic proliferation of literature on these provisions, the ignorance of most of those debating the merits of reservation is appalling. It is also appalling that among the self-appointed educationists are some retired vice-chancellors who, for the sake of remaining in the news, project a different image before the media, says P Radhakrishnan in The New Indian Express.

05.06.2006 Four months after the launch of the landmark job guarantee scheme, a nationwide study reveals that only 30% of those registering for the scheme have received job cards. Women, minorities, the elderly and the physically-challenged are not even being allowed to register.