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- India's UID project to track identity via cellphone
- Unique Identity Authority of India chairman Nandan Nilekani announced last week that an online authentication through mobile phones would soon be initiated in ...
- Stand Up Campaign launched in India
- United Nations Millennium Campaign today launched the Stand Up Take Action 2009 in the Indian capital urging citizens and civil society to hold government ...
- Partial recount of votes in Afghanistan ordered
- UN-backed electoral commission has found clear evidence of fraud during the recently held presidential election in Afghanistan. Recounting will be conducted at ...
- Stop marketing health in poor countries, Oxfam tells WB
- Oxfam's new report has crticised the World Bank and many international donors for scaling up privatised health-care delivery in poor countries. The research ...
- Indian apex court upholds validity of reservation
- In a landmark judgment, Indiareme Court has upheld the law that provides reservation in admissions in central government educational institutions to backward ...
- Regional participatory governance workshop
- CIVICUS in collaboration with Participatory Research in Action (PRIA) is organising a regional skills building workshop on participatory ...
- Corruption denies people human rights: UN chief
- Corruption is impeding the achievement of Millennium Development Goals and realisation of people’s fundamental rights, notes UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. ...
- Governance through a gender lens
- Smita Mishra Panda’s edited volume Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society focuses on ensuring gender equality in ...
- National Awards on e-Governance
- The 12th National Conference on e-Governance is scheduled to be held in Goa, India. As part of the conference the Department of Administrative Reforms and ...
- Political bickering over Kosi floods
- More than a month after the Kosi floods in eastern India, the state and union governments are busy passing the buck. The state’s water resource minister feels ...
- Biggest global mobilization to hold governments accountable
- Citizens from poor and rich countries will stand in solidarity from October 17-19 to directly address their governments to fulfill promises to reduce poverty, ...
- Pakistan's economic crisis worst in decade
- After a near decade of growth, lack of security and compounding debt has Pakistan on the wrong foot. Huge trade deficits may lead to a halt in food production ...
- India's first ever children’s parliament hosted
- It was a moment to be cherished for Indian children when on Child Rights Day last week a group held their own parliament session. The minutes of the discussion ...
- Social inclusion must for achieving MDGs, says Millennium Campaign
- Nepal needs to focus on social inclusion in policy plans and implementation, said UN Millennium Campaign head Salil Shetty during his recent trip to the ...
- 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 ...
- Pakistan divorce laws come under fire
- A proposal seeking to reform Pakistan's oppressive divorce laws has come under sharp criticism from hardliners. The bid by the Council of Islamic Ideology, the ...
- India takes steps to combat women's trafficking
- India has launched a comprehensive scheme to address the sexual exploitation of women and children, cross-border trafficking and the recue and rehabilitation ...
- ILO predicts global unemployment growth by 20 million
- The ongoing global economic crisis is going to increase unemployment worldwide. Director-General of ILO says it is about time that all governments of the world ...
- Supreme Court is Sri Lankans' last ray of hope
- The executive’s high-handedness and inefficient governance in Sri Lanka is making the citizenry resort to Supreme Court for justice. The country’s apex court ...
- Living under the shadow of draconian law
- Human rights groups in India’s northeastern state of Manipur are seeking UN intervention to put an end to arbitrary arrests and brutal killings at the hands of ...
- Obama win takes US beyond race
- Barack Obama's historic White House victory takes America beyond racial politics as a nation in transition elects its first black President. For other world ...
- UN calls for global stimulus to counter meltdown
- A new UN report stresses on the need to work in a coordinated manner with emphasis on sustainable development to resurrect the sinking world economy. It calls ...
- Citizens call for need-based public financing
- At a recently held citizen’s forum on budget priorities in eastern India, it was felt that fiscal corrections should not be at the cost of development. The ...
- Communal violence spreads tentacles to northeast India
- Bodo tribals and Muslims in Assam in northeast India are clashing with each other for past several days on the issue of alleged ‘illegal migrations’. Giving it ...
- Voicing women in budgetary governance
- For a meaningful women’s empowerment it is important that their concerns and aspirations get reflected in the policies and governance. Taking the idea forward, ...
- Bangladesh likely to end emergency before poll
- The military-backed interim government may end the state of emergency as the country moves closer to its election date in December. In power since January ...
- Parliamentarians’ handbook on MDGs
- Centre for Legislative Research and Advocacy’s latest publication Handbook for Parliamentarians on the MDGs details existing policy on MDGs in ...
- Defying protests, Kashmir votes
- Undeterred by chilling weather and amid the boycott call by Muslim separatists, Kashmir voted yesterday in the state assembly elections. For many casting the ...
- Kashmiri women see a window of opportunity
- The ongoing state elections in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir are providing the women a platform to raise their concerns, long unacknowledged by the ...
- Emergency lifted in Bangladesh
- Just ahead of general elections in Bangladesh later this month, President Lajuddin Ahmed has lifted the state of emergency that was in place since January last ...
