05-11-2009 The Sri Lankan government is said to have markedly stepped up the release of more than 300,000 displaced Tamils from camps in the north. Everyday between 2,000-3,000 people are now being freed from detention.
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04-11-2009 Having been declared a winner for a new five-year term despite charges of engineering an electoral fraud, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pledged to remove the "stigma" of corruption. Referring to Talibans as brothers, he also promised an inclusive government.
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04-11-2009 Resentment is simmering among villagers in Maharashtra due to a proposed nuclear power plant to be set up a few hundred kilometers south of Mumbai. It will be India’s first international collaboration after the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group lifted restrictions on civil nuclear cooperation.
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03-11-2009 Close on the heels of the Maldivian cabinet's underwater meeting, Nepalese cabinet is all set to meet at the base camp of Mount Everest to draw attention to the perils of climate change. Thousands of glaciers in the Himalayas that feed 10 major Asian rivers can go dry in the next 50 years.
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02-11-2009 Southeast Asia's newly constituted inter-governmental human rights body has come under fire over its terms of reference as well as its ability to have any impact on human rights in Myanmar. Critics say its handling of the country seriously undermines the credibility of the organisation.
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31-10-2009 Prakash Thosre, an Indian Forest Service officer in Maharashtra, was roped in to spearhead the National Green Corps project that has come to occupy a place among the top three states in terms of impact and value additions. In an exclusive interview with OneWorld South Asia, he talks of the project’s achievements.
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30-10-2009 For the internally displaced people living in India's north-eastern state of Assam, life is nowhere near normal. Living in refugee camps under pathetic conditions, they lack basic facilities such as clean water, sanitation and education, writes Ratna Bharali Talukdar.
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29-10-2009 Women and Media Collective, an NGO, recently showcased the struggles of Sri Lankan women, their progress in a male-dominated and conflict-ridden country for 25 years. Many feminists believe that women’s movement has been more involved with policy making than mobilising rural women to fight for their rights, writes Feizal Samath.
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27-10-2009 UNICEF-supported maternity waiting home programme in Afghanistan aims to save the lives of mothers and newborn babies by bringing skilled prenatal and postnatal care to women in remote areas. Maternal mortality rates in the country are among the highest in the world.
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26-10-2009 After the end of two-day meeting attended by several women’s organisations from across India, a statement was issued in Bhopal yesterday. Over 50 people participated and discussed the issue of increasing sexual violence in the context of state repression with special focus on Chhattisgarh and Manipur.
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