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- Schooling language at fault, says report
- A report released by Minority Rights Group International says millions of poor indigenous and minority children in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are ...
- No count of India's Bihar tribals
- Hundreds of thousands of Gond, Santhal and Tharu tribals remain untracked in the eastern Indian state due to government apathy, claims Hunger Free Bihar ...
- 'Democracy in India is failing'
- The Jan Haq Yatra, covering 16 Indian states, was recently organised to sensitise people on pressing social and economic issues. Faisal Anurag and ...
- 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 ...
- Lending ear to minority voices
- Often marginalised from the political power, minorities all over the world have little or no voice in decision-making. State of the Worlds Minorities ...
- Priyanka Calling !! - a story on Dalit life in India
- One of the best documentaries done so far on Dalit life in India.
- Economics behind dalits massacre: Bhalchandra Mungekar
- A single most casue of Dalits atrocities in India are economic and in most cases, upper caste Hindus do not take kindly to the economic prosperity of a few ...
- My mother fought to keep me: resorting female power
- Punjab (India) state-level consultative committee entrusted with the task of educating people and spreading the message of female power in Punjab, which is ...
- India's diversity not visible in public spaces
- Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Sachar Committee member says India's spectacular diversity must be visible in its public spaces in an interview with The Hindu
- 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 ...
- A tribe lost in transition
- Paharias: The Struggle of a Tribe for Recognition, a joint study by India’s Ministry of Rural Development and UNDP, analyses reasons for the ...
- Approach to gender-just development
- Human Development and Gender, a research paper by Dr Vibhuti Patel advocates that gender sensitive human development ensures an inclusive growth. ...
- ICT for thwart Atrocity: initiative of an atrocity helpline backed by Call centre
- In response to the growing worrisome incidents of atrocities on dalits, the Stop-Atrocity IT Unit, Pune has come forward with an idea of establishing a ...
- Dalit women put up a brave show to secure land rights
- It all began in 2006 with a foot march organised by the APVVU Mandal Union to unite dalit women in southern India. Since then, displaying a relentless spirit ...
- Liberalisation will not remove caste prejudice
- The extent to which the caste prejudices survive varies from place to place but it is obvious to anybody looking at contemporary politics of India that no ...
- Creating new spaces for social outcasts in India
- In a small but significant departure from tradition, dalit women, sex workers and transgenders are being engaged in managing restaurants and coffee shops in ...
- 'Disability is as much a social construct as gender'
- India’s women’s movement has failed to recognise the experiences of disabled women in a sexist and able society. Any feminist discourse must include their ...
- New initiative in India to train people on AIDS
- A number of individuals continue to be hounded from their jobs because of their HIV/AIDS status in India. On the World Day for Decent Work, the ILO and the ...
- A sense of insecurity pervades Muslims in India
- A national meet was organised on the theme ‘What it Means to be a Muslim in India Today’ by Anhad in collaboration with Siasat and other organisations in the ...
- People's Manifesto in western India puts transparency on top
- Ahead of the national elections, public hearings organised in Gujarat by anti-poverty network Wada Na Todo Abhiyan called for conducting social audits to ...
- Deformed hands script success stories
- Once shunned by society, they now prove their mettle with machines to earn a decent living. Leprosy-cured patients in western India have set up their own ...
- Marriage brings comfort for India's HIV positive couples
- Shunned by family and society, many HIV positive people in western India have chosen to marry a fellow HIV carrier. The first of its kind, a local NGO is ...
- India's sodomy laws steeped in colonial mindset: HRW
- Awaiting a high court ruling on legalising homosexual conduct in India, Human Rights Watch has called upon the government to repeal all laws criminalising such ...
- Nepal bans dowry, caste-based discrimination
- Taking strict note of dowry-related violence and caste-based discrimination faced by dalits, Nepal’s prime minister Prachanda has made such practices criminal ...
- Uniting against gender inequities in India
- Breaking decades of silence over unjust social norms, widowed, abandoned and destitute women from different states in India came together at the national ...
- Surgery grants for leprosy sufferers in India
- The Indian government will financially help leprosy patients who undergo reconstructive surgery. In a country that reports over 50% of the world's leprosy ...
- World Social Forum to act on global economic crisis
- Using the current global crisis to argue for social change, activists of the anti-globalisation movement have planned a ‘progamme of mobilisations’ in 2009 to ...
- Dalits in north India demand a better deal
- Carrying forward its campaign for drafting All India People’s Manifesto, anti-poverty network Wada Na Todo Abhiyan organised local hearings in northern India. ...
- Muslim Biharis fight for their rights in Bangladesh
- In spite of the historic high court ruling last year that reaffirmed the full citizenship of the Biharis in Bangladesh, many still fear eviction and widespread ...
- 'India trying to hide its underbelly on caste bigotry'
- Nearly 200 million people globally are victims of discriminations based on the notions of purity and pollution. Recently, a UN body deliberated on the ...
