Full Coverage: MDGs

31.10.2006 New IT revolution has just started in India, with the government embarking upon an ambitious project to connect all the schools, colleges and universities and provide an Internet enabled computer connection to each teacher in the country.

31.10.2006 190 elected women panchayat representatives from four states are to receive their first degrees on completion of a formal course in effective leadership at a high profile convocation in New Delhi on November 2, 2006.

30.10.2006 A decision by Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed on Sunday, to head an interim government to conduct general elections set for January, may exacerbate widespread political violence that has already resulted in 27 deaths over the weekend.

30.10.2006 The Education for All goals focus on the need to provide learning opportunities at every stage in life, from infancy to adulthood. With only nine years remaining before 2015 – the target year for achieving these goals, progress is being made in reducing the number of primary school-age children who are not enrolled in school still distant dream for many children especially from socially disadvantaged households reveals the recent report published by UNESCO “Education for All: Global Monitoring Report 2007

30.10.2006 On an average, more than 400 infants below the age of one die in Bihar on any given day. According to Unicef, nearly two-thirds of infant deaths occur during the first month of the childÂ’s life. Timely intervention could help save these lives, thus reducing the stateÂ’s abysmal infant mortality rate, reveals a survey conducted by the UN childrenÂ’s aid body.

30.10.2006 The Sachar Committee report, which explored the socio-economic and educational condition of Indian Muslims, had chilling figures to display multiple disadvantages they face, particularly in higher education.

27.10.2006 LIFE for the Sahariya tribal people in Madhya Pradesh (India) is an unending struggle against hunger, malnutrition, disease and, above all, neglect. In tribal villages, children continue to slide into the dark folds of hunger, and disappear, reflects Annie Zaidi.

26.10.2006 Responding to a flood of complaints from migrant workers worldwide, the United Nations is investigating a rash of human rights violations, including abusive working conditions, non-payment of wages, arbitrary detentions and collective illegal deportations.

26.10.2006 In its first four years, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has quickly become one of the most important aid agencies in the world. It has approved over 360 grant programs in 132 countries valued at $5.6 billion, and it has disbursed over $2.7 billion

26.10.2006 Negotiations over who will oversee the next elections in Bangladesh appear to have broken down, throwing the country into a political crisis. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League have had a series of meetings to try to find a solution but now they appear to have ruled out a compromise.

26.10.2006 India ranks low once again on the Global Hunger Index, confirming what development experts have been saying all along -- that the countryÂ’s economic boom is not being matched by corresponding levels of progress in the human development indices

25.10.2006 The first World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD) took off in Rome with introspection deep in the minds of development professionals and communication experts, on where does communication stand in the development sector, and whether communication strategies can be given credit for successful development programmes. OneWorld's Rahul Kumar writes from Rome.

24.10.2006 BEIJING, Oct 24 (IPS) - Celebrating the success of microfinance as an antidote to poverty has raised some uncomfortable questions here over China's reluctance to allow civil society a bigger role in addressing tough social issues.

24.10.2006 Poverty, especially extreme poverty, is the worst form of degradation of human dignity, a denial of the most basic human rights—economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights.

24.10.2006 Distinguished scholar V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai has taken over as Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

24.10.2006 In recent years, the use and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on teaching and learning has increased tremendously. They provide new perspectives and opportunities for expanding traditional educational processes and systems. Increasingly, ICT enhanced Non-Formal Educational (NFE) modules are being channelled through community access centres, such as community radio, telecentres, Community Multi-media Centres (CMCs).

24.10.2006 India is a poignant example of how food sufficiency at the aggregate level has not translated into food security at the household level. The revised thrust of the World Food Programme will be to bring the hungry, malnourished, and vulnerable within the ambit of human development.

24.10.2006 The first comprehensive global study by the United Nations on "Violence Against Children" says around 275 million children worldwide face domestic violence within the "safe" confines of their homes. The study, which look at the the South Asia regional context — finds that India as the country with the “largest number of working children in the world.”

23.10.2006 Microsoft India has entered into a partnership with Hughes to create a self-sustaining IT infrastructure in rural areas by deploying broadband enabled ICT kiosks in about 200 towns and villages across the country.

23.10.2006 With the Commonwealth Games 2010 in sight and the experience of the exploitation of the construction workers during the Asian Games 1982 in hindsight, the Social Jurist, a civil rights group, has set up a separate unit namely, Labour Rights Group to monitor the conditions of the construction and other workers in Delhi and and provide totally free legal assistance & support.