Full Coverage: Activism

30.07.2007 Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam encourages the media to encompass a classical model of mass media and national development.

27.07.2007 North-east Sri Lanka goes unserved by both the government and aid agencies as the region remains inaccessible. 30 months after the tsunami even as other parts of the country forge ahead, the north-east lags behind in reconstruction efforts.

25.07.2007 Indian civil society The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation (NJKF) is inviting applications for the Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award. The Award seeks to recognize social entrepreneurs who are pragmatic visionaries and the winner will be announced in December at a ceremony coinciding with the India Economic Summit.

24.07.2007 CanSupport is a Delhi based registered organisation that works on providing palliative care to cancer patients in collaboration with the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at AIIMS. For fundraising, they are staging a play by the noted actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Shah Pathak, 'DEAR LIAR', at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi on 11 August 2007.

24.07.2007 Panos South Asia will reward the 12 best Bangladeshi print and broadcast journalists who are eligible for cash prizes of BDT15,000 (about US$220) each, for investigative reporting on HIV and AIDS.

23.07.2007 Indian development organisation Development Alternatives is holding a workshop on Participatory Livelihood Assessment Techniques in Madhya Pradesh , India on 13-15th September 2007.

23.07.2007 A washerman from the state of Jharkhand, central India, has been writing on local issues for the last twenty years. His efforts have resulted in a weekly handwritten newspaper, popular among its readers.

19.07.2007 Delhi based TERI University has proposed a training programme for senior and middle-level managers of the Indian industry to equip them with tools and strategies for sustainability and green businesses.

19.07.2007 Professor Vibhuti Patel reviews Countering Gender Violence: Initiatives towards Collective Action in Rajasthan, authored by Kanchan Mathur. The volume focuses on interventions, activism and legal mechanisms that combat violence against women (VAW) in India, particularly in Rajasthan. The author has made an excellent attempt to link VAW with development, health and human rights issues.

16.07.2007 In a major breakthrough for anti-mercury campaigners across the globe, particularly in Europe, it is now official that mercury-based barometers will be on the list of banned products that contain the deadly neurotoxin, in the backdrop of the recent European Parliament vote seeking to place a complete ban on its trade by 2010.

13.07.2007 The Fourth Annual Conference on Electoral and Political reforms will be held in the north Indian city of Lucknow on 18 – 19 August, 2007 on the topic Reform of Political Parties. Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami will be amongst other concerned citizens and organisations at the meet.

13.07.2007 UN special adviser Ibrahim Gambari met with Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon in New Delhi, India to discuss the steps made by IndiaÂ’s neighbour Myanmar to encourage it to make further progress towards democratization and human rights.

11.07.2007 The Indian island of Karavatti is desalinating the oceanÂ’s waters into safe drinking water. This has been made feasible by a process involving thermal gradients of the sea at the National Institute of Ocean Technology plant.

10.07.2007 More than 2,000 women leaders and many of the world's leading AIDS experts were in Nairobi last week for an international conference to address the unique and devastating impact HIV and AIDS has on the over 17 million women and girls living with the disease.

09.07.2007 NEW YORK, Jul 9 (OneWorld) - On 7/7/07, Live Earth concerts across the globe kicked off an international campaign for climate protection, with a focus on individual awareness and action. OneWorld's Caitlin Johnson visited some of the satellite events in New York City to find out whether the message was getting through.

05.07.2007 NEW YORK, Jul 5 (OneWorld) - As global concerts raise the profile of climate protection among viewers on all seven continents this weekend, some 10,000 "satellite" events are expected to bring millions of individuals into the action to help stop climate change.

05.07.2007 NEW YORK, Jul 4 (OneWorld) - New alliances between activist communities in the Unites States and those involved in social justice movements across the Gulf of Mexico are in the offing.