http://southasia.oneworld.net daily 1 2008-09-26T05:30:00Z http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/cases-of-untouchability-on-the-rise-says-karnataka-dss Members of the Dalit Sangarsha Samithi (DSS) district unit staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Thursday demanding an inquiry into reports that untouchability was being practised in different parts of the district, and the increasing cases of atrocities on Dalits in the State. No publisher 2009-01-05T06:29:02Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/obc-reservation-and-tn-model The judiciary’s intervention on educational quotas may culminate and the process may be a long haul, to place matters in perspective understanding some important issues may be necessary. No publisher 2009-01-01T09:28:19Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/independent-human-rights-expert-sounds-alarm-over-rise-in-racism-intolerance A sharp spike in racism, xenophobia and intolerance poses the most serious threat to democratic progress, an independent United Nations rights expert has told the General Assembly. No publisher 2009-01-01T09:26:13Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/quota-in-pvt-sector-govt-calls-meeting-with-industry-chambers Government has called for a meeting of chambers of commerce on November 15 to discuss and work out the roadmap for introducing reservation. No publisher 2009-01-01T09:25:05Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/violence-in-nagpur-over-dalit-killings Police lobbed several teargas shells and lathi-charged demonstrators as protests against last week’s killings of four members of a Dalit family turned violent. No publisher 2009-01-01T09:23:16Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/reservation-govt-panel-writes-to-industry The TK Nair Committee set up by the prime minister has written to chambers of industry on the issue of affirmative action No publisher 2009-01-01T09:23:55Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/rights-alternative-nobel-for-dalit-champion-ruth-manorama STOCKHOLM, Sep 28 (IPS) - Chico Whitaker Ferreira, a driving force behind the creation of the World Social Forum was announced winner of an 'alternative' Nobel Prize in Stockholm Thursday. No publisher 2009-01-01T09:08:13Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/hot-dal-flung-at-dalit-woman-for-defying-upper-castes-in-bihar A dalit woman and her infant daughter were scalded with boiling hot dal and several other women and their children were assaulted by upper caste men in the village No publisher 2008-12-31T08:31:54Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/caste-discrimination-persisting-in-u-p-schools On Independence day, a District Magistrate in U.P. handed over three teachers of a primary school to the police, during a surprise school visit ... No publisher Puja Awasthi 2008-12-31T07:30:41Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/communal-violence-bill-will-not-disturb-federal-structure-patil Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Tuesday said the Communal Violence (Prevention, Control, and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill 2005 will not disturb the federal structure and it provides for adequate compensation to the victims. No publisher 2008-12-26T10:45:23Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/equity-is-not-appeasement-pm-tells-bjp Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday dipped into history to refute the BJP's charge of "appeasement" and asserted "a commitment to equity is not appeasement No publisher 2008-12-26T09:53:22Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/india2019s-children-and-women-not-reaping-growth-benefits The National Family Health Survey shows that women’s empowerment has not translated to a substantial difference for over half the country’s women No publisher 2008-12-24T09:40:08Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/social-justice-introduction Equality and Justice are fundamental principles underlined in the UN Millennium Declaration. The ‘development is a human right’ approach challenges exclusion and deprivation of socially marginalised groups like women, children, disabled, dalits, minorities and tribal communities. Achieving the MDGs would be impossible unless these groups are mainstreamed into government plans and policies. No publisher 2009-06-12T10:57:10Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/human-rights-in-south-asia Human rights in South Asia are under severe pressure as the entire region is fraught with problems of deep-entrenched poverty, oppressive caste and patriarchal structures, repressive regimes, proliferation of communal forces, ethnic violence, terrorism, etc. Not a day passes, when the rights of the people are not violated either by private or state forces. <br/><br/>With the <a href="http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html" target="_blank">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a> completing the 60 years in 2008, it becomes imperative to celebrate and uphold the right to live with dignity. No publisher 2008-12-22T08:30:48Z Article http://southasia.oneworld.net/Article/mdg-7-ensure-environmental-sustainability Goal 7 specifies the international commitment to ensuring environmental sustainability, by targeting the reversing of loss of environmental resources, halving the proportion of people without sanitation and sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015, and achieving significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020. Progress towards this goal is measured by factors such as the proportion of land area covered by forests, extent of protected areas for maintaining biological diversity, energy efficiency (in terms of GDP per unit of energy use), per capita carbon dioxide emissions, and also the proportion of the population with access to improved drinking water, sanitation, and secure tenure. No publisher 2008-10-07T06:44:37Z Article