Full Coverage: Social exclusion

31.01.2008 Over 1.5 million young women have been widowed in Afghanistan owing to armed conflicts over the last two decades. Food, shelter and social protection are the most pressing needs for these women and their children with most of them lacking the economic means to earn a decent living.

30.01.2008

24.01.2008 Senior journalist and Ramon Magsaysay winner P. Sainath takes on the media and its propagation of ‘reverse discrimination’ where upper castes are being plugged as the victims. The bitter world where Dalits are discriminated at every step of their lives is etched explicitly in this biting critique.

23.01.2008 A Dalit-centric policy framework can help the disadvantaged community to have a greater say in local and national programmes and their implementation, says a report released this month by the people’s campaign Wada Na Todo Abhiyan.

14.01.2008 A people’s cycle rally over 60 days, will build public opinion on issues of concern affecting Dalits and other marginalised sections of society in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Organised by the National Conference of Dalit Organisations, the rally was recently flagged off from Rewa district on January 10.