Full Coverage: Human rights

31.01.2007 Network of Civil Society for Peace (NCSP), Kaski, staged a goodwill rally in Pokhara, Nepal urging the Terai residents to continue their agitation peacefully.
The rally, which commenced from Srijana Chowk, passed through New Road and Chipledhunga before converging into a corner meet after reaching Bhimsen Chowk.

29.01.2007 Developing countries led by Indonesia, India, and China issued a strong message to the World Economic Forum under way here that they will not allow attempts to dilute the agricultural negotiations in the Doha Round of trade talks by certain industrialised countries, especially the United States.

27.01.2007 The mammoth World Social Forum (WSF) wound to a close in the Kenyan capital after five days of dialogue, art, poetry, dance, drama and protests led by participants from around the globe who believe "another world is possible" -- the slogan of the global civil society movement.

25.01.2007 NEW YORK, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - Government leaders across the world must stop using anti-terror laws as a tool to suppress opposition movements and deprive ordinary citizens of their due civil and human rights, say international civil society groups attending the World Social Forum in Kenya this week.

25.01.2007 From Africa to Asia, activists are reiterating that violence against women remains a threat to the HIV/AIDS fight, and that without governments addressing the matter, winning the war against the disease will be an uphill task.

24.01.2007 The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historic high in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends released on Thursday. The report also said that south Asia faces growing gender employment gap and challenge of creating jobs.

22.01.2007 PRATHAM’S goal is to ensure that ‘every child is in school -- and is learning well’. Over the last nine years, the NGO claims to have reached out to a million children. Though local governments, citizens and local corporates assist it in its endeavours, the ICICI Bank is performing a lead role. For the second consecutive year the NGO has come out with Annual Status of Education Report (ASER). Rajiv Tikoo of The Financial Express interviews founder trustee Madhav Chavan. Excerpts

18.01.2007 A grant of almost US$2 million from ADBÂ’s Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR), financed by the Government of Japan, will help reduce poverty among rural Bhutanese through a pilot project to develop their income-generating skills.

18.01.2007 The pursuit of equality has been a major objective in planning for education in independent India. The commitment to equality of opportunity was emphasized both by the commission on university education set up under S. Radhakrishnan shortly after independence and the education commission of 1964-66 under D.S. Kothari.

17.01.2007 Awaiting the Parliamentary Elections, scheduled to take place on January 21, the Gay-Straight Alliance and the Anti-Trafficking Centre organized a debate on the Law on Prohibition of Discrimination and regulations on status of sexual minorities. Only the representatives of the Democratic Party, the LDP-GSS-SDU-LSV Coalition and G17 Plus answered the invitation and appeared at the event.

17.01.2007 The Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights believes that the proposed Draft-Law on Lustration is defective and shall contribute, albeit indirectly, to new large-scale violations of human rights and freedoms.

16.01.2007 Dangerous levels of mercury have been found in the indoor air of two Delhi hospitals, indicating a persistent toxic exposure to the healthcare staff and those visiting these and similar facilities, according to a new study by Toxics Link, a Delhi-based environmental group.

12.01.2007 NEW YORK, Jan 12 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's failure to address international human rights concerns has prompted an unusual call from one of the world's leading human rights organizations.

12.01.2007 Defending human rights, democracy and diversity are its strongest point, but its "main defect" is lack of public visibility. That is how most participants viewed last year's World Social Forum (WSF), held in Caracas and Bamako, according to a survey.

11.01.2007 United Nations monitors will begin counting weapons and soldiers of the Maoist army in camps across Nepal next week, and activists are concerned that the needs of women and children there could be overlooked

10.01.2007 Los Acuerdos de Paz en Guatemala son un parte-aguas en la vida política, ya que a raíz de ese acontecimiento se liberaron procesos de lucha social antes prohibidos e inhibidos por sectores económicos y militares que gobernaron este país.

09.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 8 (OneWorld) - An international delegation arrived in Cuba this week to call for the closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The protest is part of the January 11 International Day to Shut Down Guantanamo, during which many groups in the United States and abroad are expected to rally thousands of human rights activists.

09.01.2007 Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Sachar Committee member, told in an interview with The Hindu, a national daily, that India's spectacular diversity must be visible in its public spaces.

08.01.2007 Killings in Nithari have given a boost to a government effort to launch a website to trace missing children.A first initiative of its kind is a joint venture of the ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF. "We expect to put up a pilot project on the web soon," a UNICEF official

08.01.2007 UNDP-APDIP releases a study of pro-poor e-governance projects in India Information and Communications Technology for Governance and Poverty Reduction - A Study of Rural Development Projects in India that analyses 18 projects in the country which use ICTs for the benefit of the poor. The idea behind the research was to determine which projects can be scaled up.