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- Christians march for peace and justice
- Thousands of Christians in the Indian capital marched from Jantar Mantar to Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial at Rajghat on October 2 to protest the ongoing violence ...
- New activist president for Maldives
- For Maldivians he is their own version of Nelson Mandela. Mohamed Nasheed has traveled a long distance from being an Amnesty International prisoner of ...
- Celebrate human rights through art
- To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International India is organising a week of justice festival from December ...
- Online community to StopXploitation
- StopX.org, launched by UNICEF at the recent third World Congress on sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is a new tool to fight child exploitation, ...
- Sketching for social change
- Pioneered in India by World Comics Finland, grassroots comics is fast emerging as an important tool for spreading messages on issues like family planning, ...
- Nepal lawyer among Gruber Women’s Right Prize awardees
- Three women from Nepal, Iraq and Palestine were honoured by the Gruber Foundation with the 2008 Women’s Right Prize for their fight against inequality in their ...
- Making women’s security a prime concern
- Women’s physical survival and safety must be viewed as a security issue and violence against women is as much a social concern as war, famine or terrorism, ...
- Alternative Nobel for Indian couple
- Krishnammal Jagannathan and her husband Sankaralingam are chosen for this year’s Right to Livelihood Award in recognition of their dedicated service to the ...
- Nepal’s new agents of change
- Fresh out of peer group training sessions delivered by government departments, young adults of Nepal are addressing the problems of flood survivors in several ...
- Indian village Stands Up to Take Action
- In the fringes of the capital of India resides a small village without any basic facilities. Tired of unkept promises by political leaders it decided to Stand ...
- Arbind Singh gets Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in India
- The founder-director of Nidan was announced the winner at the WEF’s India Economic Summit for his work with the urban poor in the state of Bihar. The ...
- OneWorld announces finalists for People of the Year award
- An Indian entrepreneur building hospitals in rural areas and aid workers killed in the line of duty are among the finalists nominated for OneWorld’s ...
- South Asian Women's Day focuses on regional peace
- A public event in the Indian capital marked the South Asian Women’s Day by calling for peace in the region. Condemning the recent Mumbai terror attacks, ...
- 'Military solution neither valid nor sustainable'
- Dr Binayak Sen, a prominent Indian civil rights activist continues to languish in jail since his arrest in May last year on charges of links with Maoists. His ...
- Anti-poverty campaigners tell governments to 'bail out' poor
- Marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the anti-poverty network Global Call to Action against Poverty urges governments in Asia to step ...
- Meeting the MDGs
- Going for Goals, a joint publication of Marie Stopes International and seven other UK based international health charities highlights that ...
- Citizenship remains a far cry for Lebanese women
- In deeply conservative West Asia, Lebanon has the reputation of a liberal country and yet its women married to foreigners cannot pass citizenship to their ...
- 'The crisis is an opportunity to assess the development paradigm'
- The G 20 summit at London will be a test between rhetoric and reality, says Minar Pimple, Deputy Director Asia, UN Millennium Campaign. In an interview ...
- 'We can't fight climate with consumerism'
- Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour. A change in consumption habits is seldom ...
- India: Celebrating hundred years of women's struggle
- Several organisations came together in the Indian capital yesterday to celebrate the International Women’s Day. Organised by Jagori, Sangat, Purogami Mahila ...
- UNMC Annual Report 2008
- United Nations Millennium Campaign’s Annual Report 2008 summarises the key achievements of the largest global campaign against poverty. The ...
- India: Highlighting climate change impact on grassroots
- At a recent public hearing held in Jaipur, people from all over India came together to share their experiences and speak of how their lives and livelihoods, ...
- Websites engage voters for Indian polls
- A vigorous online activity is going on in India, urging people to vote consciously. Especially targeted at the youth and using interactive tools like blogs, ...
- Urban Corruption Survey 2009
- Youth Social Development‘s Urban Corruption Survey 2009 is a scientific attempt to facilitate the identification of unethical practices in public ...
- Pakistani theatre voicing social concerns
- Tehrik-e-Niswan, a theatre troupe in Pakistan headed by a women’s rights activist, has staged plays on social issues like domestic violence, rape, child abuse ...
- Eliminating violence against women
- Addressing Gender-based Violence outlines UNFPA’s strategy and action framework to raise awareness on the issue. The publication points out a ...
- Empowered women of Rajasthan
- Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan has been spearheading a social movement in India for close to two decades now. Ita Mehrotra traverses the villages of ...
- Rural women become harbingers of change
- Many of them had to drop out of school owing to domestic pressures and social taboos. Not only these women from central India have attempted to study further ...
- India pursuing neo-liberal agenda, say activists
- Anti-poverty network in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan organised a two-day consultation last week in New Delhi to review the United Progressive Alliance’s ...
- India's apex court grants bail to Dr Binayak Sen
- India’s Supreme Court today granted bail to Dr Binayak Sen, a respected people’s doctor and civil rights activist. He had been languishing in Raipur jail for ...
