Full Coverage: South Asia

29.07.2008 Despite being dubbed a “corridor of chaos” by the media, the new Delhi High Capacity Bus System has become one of the first high-quality walking and cycling environments in India. Dr Walter Hook reports.

23.07.2008 South Asian leaders' failures to control rising food prices, protect small farmers, ensure women's land rights, resist genetically modified organisms GMOs and stop biofuels will increase the number of hungry people in the region to over 588 million by 2009, claims a new report.

22.07.2008 South Asian leaders have been asked by civil society groups to strengthen human rights through new institutions such as a regional parliament, education fund, climate change body and a South Asian human rights charter and a mechanism to increase people-to-people contacts.

19.07.2008 South Asian civil society groups have urged leaders preparing for a regional summit to "imagine a New South Asia" free from hunger, poverty, disasters, bad governance, authoritarian rules and lack of control over their resources.

15.07.2008 Indian central and state governments should hold accountable security forces and state-backed vigilantes responsible for killing and forcibly displacing tens of thousands of people in armed operations against Maoist rebels, an international rights group said today.

14.07.2008 South Africa’s Housing Minister Dr Lindiwe Sisulu and Jockin Arputham, founder of India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation, call on aid agencies and development banks to support an innovative way of tackling problems in the world's slums and squatter settlements, which a billion people call home.

08.07.2008 Barclays Bank has sold its shares in Global Coal Management – a British company building a controversial mine in Bangladesh – and should now remove all financial involvement in the project, says a leading UK development lobby group.