Full Coverage: Social exclusion

29.05.2007 National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR) is organising a Panel Discussion on Millennium Development Goals and Dalits on May 30, 2007 at Conference Hall-II, India International Centre, Lodi Estate, Delhi, India.

28.05.2007 India's Information and Technology Department will provide computer training to children belonging to socially deprived and minority groups. The first initiative has been taken by the city of Chandigarh in association with United Progressive Muslim Front to teach a basic course to the students of Manimajra Madarsa.

21.05.2007 The Sahariya tribals in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh have defied caste rules by setting up their own school, with help of the UNICEF-backed Saarthi Foundation.

21.05.2007 The Sahariya tribals in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh have defied caste rules by setting up their own school, with help of the UNICEF-backed Saarthi Foundation.

18.05.2007

14.05.2007 The Humanitarian Voluntary Association of the Roma “Mesecina” from Gostivar accused the Macedonian state of discriminatory approach to the case of the Trajan Bekirov, a Romani adolescent whose death and the responsibility for it remain unsolved a full year after Bekirov was killed in a raid by the special police unit “Alfa”.

11.05.2007 The Memorial University Scholarship Program (RMUSP) offers scholarships for eligible Romani students at the university level. The funds for the first two years of this program were allocated from gold looted by the Nazis during the II World War and held by the Allied Forces.

10.05.2007 The Gwangju Prize for the promotion and protection of human rights has been jointly awarded to two Indians this year - namely Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi from People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, who has put up vehement resistance against the Indian caste system, and Irom Sharmila, a resident of Manipur, who continues to be on hunger strike in a powerful protest against the indiscriminate use of the AFSPA against civilians in Manipur.

06.05.2007