Full Coverage: Social exclusion

31.08.2006 For years, Nawab Mohammed Akbar Khan Bugti battled the Pakistan Army. The 80-year-old renegade hidden in the mountains of Balochistan became a legend in his fight for greater autonomy against what he saw as colonial brutality.
And his death this weekend, during a fierce three-day battle that left more than 30 dead, could prove a serious blow to Pakistan's stability.

31.08.2006

Dalit Aid

International NGOs (INGOs) vary greatly in size, approach and focus. For the majority, India continues to be a priority area for their activities, where they use a variety of working strategies. There are many different approaches the INGOs follow with regard to Dalit programmes in India. We need to learn from each other where there is an impact and where there are problems. We need to analyse the nature and context of caste discrimination, soical exclusion of dalits, caste conflicts and solutions to such conflicts, assess the political dimensions of Dalit empowerment, assess the different models and ways of working on Dalit issues.

23.08.2006

wider

The reference to ‘flatness’ alludes to the more level playing field due to globalization that has enabled China, India, and others to start catching up with the living standards of rich countries. But as Birdsall points out, the world is far from flat. In particular, unequal opportunities exist and persist both at the level of households within countries and at the level of nations in a global context; indeed the same forces of globalization are likely to exacerbate these inequalities

22.08.2006 The Union Cabinet has cleared the bill to reserve 27 per cent seats for other backward classes in all institutions of higher and technical education managed or aided by the central government. The bill will be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament, which ends on Friday.

18.08.2006 Social activists in India want the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to include achieving social equity and curbing human rights violations against certain communities. Many communities like tribals, Dalits and minorities have been denied their social, economic and cultural rights and are therefore languishing in poverty.

18.08.2006

AIDS

The promise of new vaccines and more effective prevention programmes will fail to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS unless fear and social stigma can also be eliminated -- including among those living with the disease, experts say at XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto Canada held on 13-18 Aug. 2006.

14.08.2006 Social attitudes towards adoption in Rajasthan reflect a medieval mentality. A vast majority of abandoned children are girls. In the past decade over 90 per cent of childless couples in Rajasthan wanted to adopt only baby boys.