Full Coverage: Activism

30.08.2007 In an attempt to derail indigenous rights activist Rigoberta MenchuÂ’s political party ahead of September 9 elections, a party member and local council candidate was recently assassinated.

30.08.2007 Greenpeace activists staged a “shame-HCL” protest at the company’s headquarters in Noida, India, demanding that the company make clear and binding commitments to green its operations.

29.08.2007 The report 'Strategy for Sustained Growth' says that Bangladesh could join the ranks of middle income countries by 2016. It has the necessary assets, much-improved economic fundamentals, rapidly growing labor force, an established entrepreneurial culture and an impressive record of achievement in harnessing sound economic and social policies to pioneering social entrepreneurship.

29.08.2007 David Wheeler, lead economist for the Infrastructure/Environment Team of the World Bank's Development Research Group has expressed his concerns on the environment in an interview and looks further for innovative new strategies for protecting the environment by redefining the concepts of regulation, the roles of government, and the responsibility of the private sector.

28.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 28 (OneWorld) - Thousands of protesters are expected to converge on New Orleans Wednesday to raise awareness about what they believe to be the Bush administration's failure to help Americans who lost everything in the wake of a ferocious storm that hit the United States' Gulf Coast some two years ago.

23.08.2007 Indian railways is finding meaningful ways to engage ragpickers across the country. They are being pressed into service to clean the tracks at stations and become daily wagers. The railways has also introduced mechanised cleaning system at 26 major stations in the country. Here, cleanings of platforms and trains are carried out with the help of machines.

23.08.2007 Taking a new and exciting approach to activism, DC-based women for peace are inviting others to stay in their organizationÂ’s house and partake in their daily advocacy activities on Capitol Hill.

22.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.

22.08.2007 The civil society action against government acquisition of land in rural areas is gathering steam across India, peopleÂ’s movements all over the country are mobilising support against land acquisitions .Indian states as Maharashtra, an anti-Special Economic Zones (SEZ) protest has been planned out, and a statewide protest against land grabs has kicked off in Rajasthan.

22.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 21 (OneWorld) - An American scholar jailed in Iran for over three months has been released, following weeks of protests by international human rights groups.

20.08.2007 SAINT LOUIS, Aug 20 (OneWorld) - Members of a leading Iraq war veterans' organization voted this weekend to launch a campaign encouraging U.S. troops to refuse to fight.

19.08.2007 COPENHAGEN, Aug 18 (OneWorld) - Though China would like to be seen at the next Olympics as a major world power that stands for international peace, an Olympic-style torch relay that began in Africa this week is painting a different picture of the giant Asian nation.

13.08.2007 The Commonwealth People's Forum, organised by the Commonwealth Foundation, will take place from November 18 - 22, 2007 at the Africana Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. The registration for the largest gathering of civil society has opened up.

08.08.2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his first speech to the UN warns that the UN is a "million miles" from meeting its promises to meet MDG goals by 2015.

08.08.2007 Greenpeace has asked Surya Roshni, one of the leading bulb manufacturers in India, to stop manufacturing incandescent light bulbs. Greenpeace's Ban the Bulb Campaign calls for a progressive phase out of inefficient lighting in India to reduce energy wastage and fight climate change.

08.08.2007 The Limbuwan Mukti Morcha, Nepal has called an indefinite general strike in five eastern districts demanding guarantee of federalism based on ethnicity with autonomy.

07.08.2007 A recent publication by Save the Children UK says the effects of global warming will hit the most children in developing countries. The report hopes to make public feel the scale of threat faced by future generations that is often left unacknowledged.

07.08.2007 A new study in the journal ‘Nature’ says global warming due to human action is leading to changing precipitation patterns. Highly sophisticated computer models have been used to predict and confirm the change of weather – with heavy rains in some areas and severe drought in others.

06.08.2007 In the Indian western state of Rajasthan, a young woman leader is doing her best to ensure that people benefit from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, which assures of the right to employment among eligible rural people.

03.08.2007 Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has announced that more than 225 young entrepreneurs have logged onto www.globalknowledge.org/ysef07 to apply for the Global Young Social Entrepreneurs' Competition. According to the GKP the response indicates immense interest social entrepreneurship that harnesses ICT.