Full Coverage: Ethics & value systems

06.10.2009 Mike Hulme offers a useful summary of his recent book. Scientists cannot be responsible for reconciling diverse ethics that influence attitudes to climate change. from SciDev

27.09.2009 Environmental campaigns are struggling to persuade people to change behaviour. New strategies may appeal more to identity and values than material rewards. WWF

06.04.2009 A timely piece of research by the Sustainable Development Commission but why add the question mark to its title?

14.03.2009 I don't normally look to religious leaders for enlightenment but the Archbishop of Canterbury makes a good fist of interpreting our economic ruins.

09.03.2009 Our sense of values continues to rotate in the spin-dryer. On the same day that Gandhi's spectacles sell for millions, the Bank of England decides that money is worthless.

16.02.2009 As the nationalisation of major banks looks increasingly likely, the World Social Forum is promoting a "new economic and social model". It's always informative to revisit Cuba when assessing the strengths and weaknesses of socialist ideals.

15.02.2009 Christopher Caldwell suggests that it's time to move on from hangups over bankers' bonuses. We should have made a fuss a long time ago. Financial Times

07.05.2008 Durgabai Deshmukh Award winner Daud Sharifa Khanam from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu provided Muslim women a platform to challenge the oppressive patriarchal system. For this, she has had to face the ire of Muslim clerics. She was hated, abused and threatened but she never gave up the fight.

08.04.2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 7 (OneWorld) - Five adults and five youths were inaugurated into the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans today, a tribute to national role models who have dedicated their lives to the advancement of others.

24.03.2008 NEW YORK, Mar 24 (OneWorld) - A corporate watchdog group has started a nationwide voting campaign to name and shame companies that run afoul of economic and environmental laws.

21.03.2008 In an era when women are still struggling to find an equal footing, the Kotha tribe in Tamil Nadu in southern India is an exemplary model of gender equality and a progressive social system. The tribe’s matrilineal ethos ensures property rights and dowry free marriages for women.

20.03.2008 Even as Indian national Sarabjit Singh’s execution has been stayed until April 30 by Pakistan, efforts are on to save his life. He was sentenced to death for his involvement in spying and bomb blasts that had claimed several lives. Singh claims that he is the victim of mistaken identity.

18.03.2008 SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, Mar 18 (OneWorld) - Dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans publicly testified this weekend about crimes they committed during the course of battle -- many of which were prompted by the orders or policies laid down by superior officers.

17.03.2008 Tired of living in a world governed by marriage laws formulated and implemented by men, Muslim women in India have come out with their own Nikahnama. It recognises their right to seek divorce and other entitlements so that they are the masters of their own destiny.

04.03.2008 British author Valerie Mason-John’s new book Broken Voices has series of interviews with dalit women, recounting their horrific experiences of caste-based injustice and discrimination. During her five-month stay Valerie lived, ate and worked together with these women to get the feel of what it is like to be an untouchable in India.

27.02.2008 When a dalit widow was appointed as cook in a government-run school in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, no one was ready to eat the food cooked and served by her. Everyone conspired to sack her and saw to it that she was never reinstated.

27.02.2008 At least five Nepali gays will contest elections for the Constituent Assembly, scheduled to be held this April, to take up the issue of discrimination against their community. In a nation that treats homosexuality as illegal and immoral, this is an attempt to fight exclusion.

21.02.2008 NEW YORK, Feb 21 (OneWorld) - Graphic images of animal cruelty and this week's record recall of U.S. beef have spurred fresh demands to expand a ban on killing sick animals for food consumption.

15.02.2008 Veteran social activist Baba Amte, who recently passed away at his ashram in Maharashtra, will be remembered for his service to the cause of lepers and efforts to keep the diverse social fabric of India intact. He used to say that a true revolution was not destructive but creative.

12.02.2008 For bringing that elegance and glistening shine to a piece of fabric thousands of silk worms meet a cruel death. But Kusuma Rajaiah from Andhra Pradesh in southern India has now discovered an eco-friendly and humane way of producing silk without getting to indulge in the carnage of worms.