Full Coverage: MDGs

30.11.2006 Popular soap opera that portrays a mother in search of a school that will accept her daughter as just another student has sparked a public debate in Brazil on whether or not children with Down's syndrome should be enrolled in standard schools.

29.11.2006 A group of ministers cleared a draft legislation that proposes to allow foreign educational institutions to open campuses in the country. Once the Bill is enacted, Oxford, Harvard and Stanford can set up shop and offer global degrees in India.

29.11.2006 Trade between India and Pakistan can increase to a phenomenal level of 6.6 billion dollars if barriers are removed and the neighbouring country implements the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement, an ICRIER report has said.

29.11.2006 The government will have to more than double its budget allocation for higher education during the 11th Five-Year Plan if it accepts the recommendations of academic bodies that are working out a "proper" budget allocation for higher education.

29.11.2006 Leaders from Government, the private sector, science and technology, media, entertainment and sports from around the world will gather at the United Nations to convey the message that the global community is one family with common values.

28.11.2006 Opportunities to pursue education are dependent upon the availability of adequate access. In the nation as a whole, primary educational facility is available to only to about 70-80 % of the eligible age group ( unto 14 years) of the children. Some of the states are not fortunate to reach even this capacity.

28.11.2006 IndiaÂ’s economic performance in the past two decades has been remarkable, but closer subregional integration would help the country and its neighbors to achieve their full economic potential, a senior ADB official told a press briefing.

28.11.2006 Today, civil society is indeed active and vibrant but that is largely on account of individual drive and concern. We talk of public-private partnerships to build roads and highways, establish power stations and ports. Why not public-civil society alliances in areas of social infrastructure? Ms. Gandhi said at the World Economic Forum meet.

28.11.2006 Community radio is set to move from the margins to the centre with the Union
Government's decision to legitimise it, said Ashish Sen, director of voices.
According to the policy guidelines, non-governmental organisations and other non-profit organisations will be able to apply for community radio licences.

28.11.2006 The Tehelka Summit of the Powerless session on Equal Education saw panelists attack the Central governmentÂ’s lackadaisical approach to education, especially primary education.

27.11.2006 Concerned over the little space that common people and the civil society get in the budget-making process in India they have formed an alliance to advocate for more people-centric budgets. Over 100 activists, academics, number of government and community women from different states assembled at New Delhi on November 27 and 28th for a consultation on peopleÂ’s budget and to strengthen this initiative

27.11.2006 Indian civil society organisations from one of India's most backward states Madhya Pradesh joined hands with people and the government to participate in the global event - Stand Up Against Poverty on 15-16 October, 2006. They joined some 23 million people across the world in the event.

27.11.2006 On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women, the Dalit Networks around the globe orgainsed International Conference to discuss the issues of discrimination and violence against more than 100 million Dalit women in South Asia. Dalit women from South Asia are determined to ‘’transform their pain into power’’ and the Hague Declaration on the Human Rights and Dignity of Dalit women’’ the participants urged the governments of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well as the international community to support their struggle.

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The MDGs are essentially for the improvement in quality of life of the poor. Ensuring ownership of the goals would require the knowledge and information on the goals and localisation of the goals would enable individual countries and sub-national authorities to set targets that are local and achievable.

24.11.2006 While the number of young unemployed increased from 74 million to 85 million, or by 14.8 per cent between 1995 and 2005, more than 300 million youth, or approximately 25 per cent of the youth population, were living below the US $2 per day poverty line, says a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO)

24.11.2006 Centad is organising its second annual ‘South Asian Conference on Trade and Development’ at the Park Hotel, New Delhi, on December 19-20, 2006.This year’s theme is ‘Multilateralism at Cross Roads: Reaffirming Development Priorities’

24.11.2006 An Approach Paper of the Planning Commission says that a set of national testing standards and a chain of institutions that test and evaluate children would help monitor and improve quality of learning.

24.11.2006 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to launch a satellite education programme in schools across the country from next year.An initiative of the vocational education department, CBSE, specific lessons would be transmitted through satellite from various regional offices of the board under the programme.

24.11.2006 High GDP growth in India since the beginning of economic reforms has often been accused of promoting growth without a human face.New health data shows improvement in quality of life since 1992. Public health services in India have worsened over the same period.

23.11.2006 The scarcity at the heart of the global water crisis is rooted in power, poverty and equality, not in physical availability. There is more than enough water in the world for domestic purposes, for agriculture and for industry. The problem is that some people -- notably the poor -- are systematically excluded from access by their poverty, by their limited legal rights or by public policies.