Full Coverage: Activism

24.01.2008 Taking a leaf out of the Nandigram struggle against Special Economic Zones, several organisations across India are joining hands to press for people-centric approach in development. Starting January 26, the day when the country was declared a republic, they will march through various states bringing people on the ground together.

22.01.2008 As women suffer the horrific consequences of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one Congolese and one American women are helping to stem the violence and support its victims.

22.01.2008 Burma's monks led protests in 2007 that may well mark the beginning of the end of more than 40 years of brutal military rule.

21.01.2008 Chitamma, an old and frail woman in eastern IndiaÂ’s coastal state of Orissa is the driving force behind Samudram, a state level federation of organisations of women fish workers. She has helped them become economically independent and has fought social evils such as alcoholism.

18.01.2008 Recently named as Man of the Year by The Week, Baba Adhav is a veteran trade unionist working with porters in Maharashtra in western India. His sole mission now is to get the Bill for social security of unorganised sector workers passed in Parliament. In a freewheeling interview, he reminisces his life and times.

15.01.2008 Human Rights advocates are urging consumers and merchants to shun Burmese gems at the military government's latest auction of precious stones. Human Rights Watch has attacked the gem trade for propping up the military dictatorship and it is felt that western boycotts could significantly hamper the juntaÂ’s profits.

14.01.2008 A peopleÂ’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.

11.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Human rights activists will lead rallies across the United States today to build pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to end the detention of foreign prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military camp.

10.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 10 (OneWorld) - Coastal residents and students from all over South Carolina are planning to picket this evening's Republican Party Presidential Candidates Debate.

09.01.2008 The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was honoured by the Millennium Campaign for its key participation at last yearÂ’s Stand Up and Speak Out initiative on October 17. The state witnessed a record turnout of more than half a million people in support of the campaignÂ’s cause.

07.01.2008 As 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a group of seasoned humanitarian activists known as The Elders are hoping to collect one billion signatures from across the world, expanding the past precedent that only governments should sign the Universal Declaration.
From: The Elders

03.01.2008 Child soldiers returning to their homes in Nepal face difficulties in rehabilitating themselves, say local NGOs. Fears of torture and abductions by Maoist rebels and government forces continue to haunt these children, who are in dire need of psycho-social support from their communities.