Full Coverage: Social exclusion

25.04.2007 Faced with unemployment in their failing tea estates, about two years ago, tea pluckers in the rolling highlands of this southern state responded by forming cooperatives to buy out their former employers Tata Tea and turn the gardens into profitable enterprises.

16.04.2007 Balraj Puri from the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) says that terrorism in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has dwarfed the human rights of orphans, widows, handicapped, weaker sections, displaced persons and many others. He says that it is a high time that people took notice of these rights also.

16.04.2007 Anti-poverty agency ActionAid is calling on central government to prevent the state from violating environmental guidelines and denying the voices of local people in a hearing on projects proposed by Korean steel giant POSCO which are set to displace seven villages.

10.04.2007 With two of every three children facing some form of physical abuse, an official study, "Child Abuse: India 2007," has suggested that the issue be placed on the national agenda. Fifty percent of the abusers are people known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.

04.04.2007 Just before International Roma Day - to be celebrated on 8 April - the Council of Europe and the European Commission will organize a regional arts festival for the Roma, "Art against prejudice " at the International Culture Centre of Tirana, April 5-7.