Full Coverage: Human Rights

28.12.2006 JabalaÂ’s Safe Migration Project gets panchayats in West Bengal to keep track of women who migrate into urban areas, providing a safety net for women who get trapped into sex work or slave labour.

28.12.2006 Inaugurating the Dalit-Minority International Conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was necessary to make a distinction between the problems faced by Dalits and those by minorities.

27.12.2006 Holland-based NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said violence or its threat appears to have a large impact on the psychological health of people in the trouble-torn State.

26.12.2006 Global poverty estimates report the number of people living on less than $1 or $2 a day. But purchasing power (dis)parities suggest that it could be more accurate to say that the poor in countries like India are living on less than $0.20 or $0.40 a day, says Aseem Shrivastava

26.12.2006 People in South Asia overwhelmingly support democracy, except in Pakistan, where about half the respondents in a survey said that democratic or non-democratic forms of government made no difference to them.

22.12.2006 NEW YORK, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - Death penalty opponents and human rights organizations are hailing Florida governor Jeb Bush's decision this week to temporarily halt all executions in his state.

22.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - Human rights groups reacted with skepticism Thursday after military prosecutors charged eight Marines in the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in the western Iraqi town of Haditha.

22.12.2006 In a press conference on Friday, Indian NGOs urged the government to do more to involve survivors of the 2004 tsunami in decisions related to rehabilitation to make the reconstruction effort a success. The NGOs had gathered under an ActionAid initiative to launch a report in Indian capital New Delhi.

22.12.2006 The Lok Janshakti Party of India is organising the Dalit and Minorities International Conference on the theme "Power to the Powerless" in the current Indian socio-political and socio-economic scenario. The meet will be held on December 27th and 28th, 2006 at G.M.C. Bal Yogi Auditorium, Parliament Library Building in New Delhi.

22.12.2006 A professor of philosophy and law at the University of Chicago, Martha Nussbaum has made a significant contribution in promoting the capabilities approach to development, which regards central human capabilities (such as the ability to live a full life, engage in recreational activities and participate in politics) as the framework for development.

21.12.2006 Dalit and Minorities International Conference on "Power to the Powerless" in the Indian Socio- economic and political scenario to be held on December 27th and 28th, 2006 at G.M.C. Bal Yogi Auditorium, Parliament Library Building, New Delhi.

21.12.2006 A resolution was adopted today by the Committee on Development of the European Parliament urging the Government of India to stop the violence against Dalits (formerly called ‘Untouchables’) and the widespread practices of untouchability.

20.12.2006 Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen on Tuesday expressed regret that children have not gained from India’s economic growth and termed the high incidence of female feticide as a “national calamity”.

19.12.2006 Farmers in Raigad district, in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, use satellite imagery to prove that their lands are fertile, thus thwarting the government's move to acquire their lands for the development of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at cheap rates by claiming it was not productive land.

19.12.2006 This year Human Rights Day focuses on fighting poverty as a matter of obligation, not of charity. Poverty is a cause and a product of human rights violations.

19.12.2006 A public hearing has been organised in the Development Committe of the European Parliament to address human rights slot on the situation of the Dalits in India

18.12.2006 Entre as muitas denúncias, figuram, inclusive, casos de tortura e de abuso sexual cometidos contra mulheres e mulheres militantes e simpatizantes da APPO.

18.12.2006 December 10, 2006: Today the world celebrates the 58th anniversary of the UN Charter of Human Rights as the International Human Rights Day, but the people of Singur or Narmada or Raigad (Maharashtra), Dadri-Bajada (UP) cannot partake in these celebrations.

15.12.2006 A World Bank report - Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization - released on Friday in Indian capital New Delhi warns that globalization could spur faster growth in developing countries but could be accompanied by growing income inequality and potentially severe environmental pressures.

15.12.2006 The bill that seeks 27 percent of seats for students of Other Backward
Classes (OBCs) in the central higher education institutions in the country
was passed unanimously in the Lok Sabha.