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  • Over 400,000 receive food aid in Afghanistan
  • Examining aid effectiveness in Afghanistan
  • Food riots loom large over Asia
  • UN calls on agro-industries to tackle high food prices
  • Examining aid effectiveness in Afghanistan
  • In pursuit of a sustainable urban setting
  • Agriculture for poverty reduction
  • More microfinance initiatives key to financial inclusion
  • Zooming in on refugees
  • Soaring prices new face of hunger
  • Do not rely on market economy for development: Amartya Sen
  • FAO forecasts high rice production in 2008
  • Rural employments through ICTs
  • Loan waivers in offing for Indian farmers
  • Youth unemployment rising, with hundreds of millions more working but living in poverty: ILO
  • Indian budget will not raise farm incomes’
  • No safe drinking water for all in India yet
  • No safe drinking water for all in India yet
  • Preparing children to face disasters
  • Nepal on track in reducing infant mortality
  • Marching in defence of seed sovereignty
  • EU Biofuel U-Turn?
  • Pakistan launches campaign against measles
  • Healthy living goes slow and organic
  • Inflation is akin to a tax on the poor
  • The middle-path is the best approach to democracy: Dalai Lama
  • A silver lining in tribal India
  • ‘Selling antibiotics as if they were food supplements’
  • Community TV for better communication
  • Software solution for mother and child care
  • Workplace attitude toward HIV/AIDS shows improvement: ILO
  • Countrywide polio vaccination drive under way in Afghanistan
  • Tale of two villages
  • Amnesty: Ensure safe schools for girls
  • Lack of clean water plagues Bangladesh village
  • New test for early detection of chikungunya virus
  • Child health resource network to be set up in Madhya Pradesh
  • Measuring progress on children and AIDS
  • Reduce turtle deaths by 20%, Greenpeace tells Orissa
  • Kashmir residents learn to live in harmony with wildlife
  • Village girl sets bold example
  • India’s new proposals to combat global warming
  • A model school for tribals
  • Higher education is fine, but where are the teachers?
  • Mehdiganj residents demand closure of Coke plant
  • 12 lakh ‘missing’ schoolchildren in Maharashtra
  • 'Water Towers of Asia’ need better monitoring
  • Children take up their own cause
  • Conservation in India: Panchayats show the way
  • Quality teachers a must for quality education
  • Partnerships for improving girls' education
  • People in Conservation - Community Conserved Areas in India
  • Intel to help Bangladesh bridge digital divide
  • Kabul air perilous to health
  • USAID to provide $3.4m for teachers’ education
  • Indian govt. for 100 pc FDI in higher education
  • Water management crucial to Asia’s water resources
  • Bringing the sun into homes of poor
  • Comprehensive policy required for health, education services
  • Entry age to nursery class- No controversy please
  • Human failure in disasters
  • Tsunami-hit villages get Internet connectivity
  • TV series on sexual violence
  • Missing women and India’s religious demography
  • Poverty drives sale of children as brides in Afghanistan
  • Missing women and India’s religious demography
  • Washing away miseries
  • Environmental action driving global economy
  • Development from mining is a chimera
  • Bringing HIV positive women back into mainstream workforce
  • Act before it becomes irreversible
  • Changing weather to impact harsh on women and children
  • Rapidly warming Asia Pacific
  • SAARC to ensure regional food security
  • Developing countries welcome WTO proposal on farm trade
  • Regional co-operation & globalisation
  • Sri Lankan govt secures 75pc of 2007 aid quantum
  • Rural job scheme excludes single women
  • Labour India:Worker-turned-Owners Revive Failing Tea Estates
  • Nothing educative and healthy in the union budget
  • Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries
  • TeleFood: building solidarity to end world hunger
  • Bangladesh lists products for duty-free market access under WTO
  • Norway breaks silence on "Illegitimate Debt"
  • ICT tools in behavioural change communications for safe motherhood
  • Sri Lankan govt secures 75pc of 2007 aid quantum
  • Humanitarian action in emergencies
  • Young people worldwide can eradicate poverty
  • The struggle for affordable medicines
  • Mainstreaming gender to reduce poverty
  • Include women in governance agenda: Women's Charter Against Poverty
  • Gender Budgeting for women's empowerment
  • The threat from the internet
  • The powerful get water,the powerless don’t:UNDP report
  • Keep the peace process on track
  • India concerned over SAFTA violations
  • Snippets 3rd from the WTO meet at Hong Kong
  • Healers of the furry kind
  • WFP’s financial crunch
  • Conservation in India: Panchayats show the way
  • College students take community radio to slums
  • Homecoming tough for Nepal’s child soldiers
  • Puppets on a broken string
  • Blossoms from the dust
  • India’s Bastar artisans to get global identity
  • Children taking meal at school
  • New initiatives on disaster management in India
  • TB death cases reduce in Afghanistan
  • Tracking India’s progress on MDGs
  • The search continues for cyclone missing
  • Bangladesh to adopt urea fertiliser technique
  • Afghanistan asks WFP help to ward off food shortage fears
  • Enhancing capabilities through micro-credit
  • A rally on wheels to build Dalit awareness
  • Niyamgiri Hills saved for the moment, but battle continues
  • Afghan government seeks to mainstream madrassas
  • Bank accounts for poor is gateway to financial inclusion
  • Pakistan faces severe food crisis
  • Surpassing immunisation targets Tripura way
  • Bangladesh local filter to combat arsenic tainted water
  • A ‘wasted’ childhood
  • Survivor on the fringes of the forest
  • Human rights group renews boycott call on Burma's gems
  • Can we avoid ‘dangerous’ global warming?
  • Coke verdict: Not safe…safe…not safe
  • Looking for the ‘never-say-die’ crop
  • Selective consultation irks Indian fishermen
  • A relentless fighter for workers’ rights
  • Bangladesh’s arsenic agony
  • Caste and prejudices
  • Sri Lanka ceasefire end could hit aid delivery
  • ADB meet faces boycott
  • India fears bird flu spread
  • Visual chat facility for Afghan prisoners
  • UK to double aid to Myanmar
  • Amnesty demands impartial enquiry into Nandigram atrocities
  • Bangladesh gets its first biomass plant
  • Taking e-governance to rural areas
  • Indian toy industry on revival path
  • Bhutan all set for elections
  • Debt bondage makes children labour at brick kilns
  • Bleak future for shrimp farmers in Bangladesh
  • SEZ fertiliser project makes farmers stakeholders
  • Growing child abuse a cause of concern in Pakistan
  • Hundreds of Afghans wounded by landmines in 2007
  • Sri Lanka: Economy flourished during truce
  • Go for integrated health strategies to save children, says UNICEF
  • Hunger and education do not go well together
  • ILO advocates labour reform to tackle poverty
  • Link communities to resources for realisation of MDGs
  • Bird flu engulfs half of West Bengal
  • New cyber law in Pakistan restricts free speech
  • March to link people to their struggles
  • Protests in Sri Lanka against remarks by UN official
  • Prostitution: All in the name of tradition
  • Bird flu panic in Bangladesh
  • Policy Guidelines for setting up Community Radio Stations in India
  • Time to smell the stink
  • Understanding India’s architectural heritage
  • A paper by women for women
  • Orissa woman shows path to self-reliance
  • Documenting lives in Andhra’s saltpans
  • Children take up their own cause
  • Women brigade of Haryana
  • Punjab: Telemedicine project now in second phase
  • Farming tips on mobile
  • Virtual government offices to come up in every small town
  • Kerala kids start early with computers
  • Community video empowers rural India
  • Technology helps lessen poverty in developing world
  • UNICEF Germany’s ‘Photo of the Year’ draws attention to issue of child brides
  • Orissa woman shows path to self-reliance
  • SAARC Gender Database launched
  • India seeks 'gender-sensitive development’
  • A paper by women for women
  • WSF supporters bring adverse effects of globalisation to the fore
  • Most of world’s stunted children live in India, says Lancet
  • Indian schools suffer from lack of infrastructure
  • Food is getting beyond reach for Bangladeshi poor due to skyrocketing prices
  • UN's global campaign for safe hospitals
  • Aghanistan’s war widows face desperation
  • Peace icon’s ashes scattered at sea
  • Right to information a far cry for villagers in India
  • Government honours Indian woman economist
  • Investing faith in the differently-abled
  • Meeting MDGs through sport
  • Row over UNICEF high protein biscuits ends
  • Girls sold as indentured labour in Nepal
  • Bitter cold causing hardships in Afghanistan
  • Four billion dollar post-cyclone plan for Bangladesh
  • Love in the time of AIDS
  • A house that blends well with nature
  • Nepal issues exit permits to Bhutan's refugees
  • ‘Growing inequality is a threat to democracy’
  • NGO frees children from factories
  • Climate change is likely to affect South Asia’s food security
  • Pakistan gears up to tackle bird flu
  • More dams, less irrigation
  • Gates grant for climate resilient rice
  • South Asia nations to work together on wildlife trade
  • Living with HIV in Bangladesh
  • Ahimsa silk
  • Asia’s black market of illegal organs
  • Reviving the movement for saving the Western Ghats
  • Indian tigers on the decline
  • Coming to terms with suicide loss
  • A suffering Bharat vs shining India
  • No bed of roses for new government in Pakistan
  • India: A million deaths by smoking
  • Tortured Bangladeshi journalist tells his tale
  • Seminaries luring children to ‘paradise’
  • Endosulfan victims still suffer in India
  • Bird watching to save habitats
  • Low-carbon economy good for business, says UN Chief
  • Afghanistan plagued by pneumonia
  • Largest all-women expedition to Everest
  • Election day in Pakistan
  • Rescuing the rivers
  • India does poorly to keep its children alive, says report
  • First ever welfare board for transgenders
  • ‘Widowhood means denial of basic human rights’
  • Mass deportation to add to woes of Afghanistan
  • Yamuna Satyagraha completes 200 days
  • Pakistan poll verdict: ‘Musharraf should quit’
  • Little protection against rains for cyclone victims in Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh: Safe sex and stronger policy for AIDS prevention
  • Greenpeace demands ‘producer responsibility’ from electronics companies
  • Too poor to demand basic rights from government
  • Museum in remembrance of Gujarat violence
  • Coke blamed for depleting water resources
  • Child survival calls for target-specific policies
  • Doctors participating at the ICRC war surgery seminar
  • Insure poor against extreme weather events, say experts
  • No more SEZs in Goa
  • Nepal: Mounting ethnic tension may lead to humanitarian crisis
  • Afghanistan’s livestock sector shaken due to freezing cold
  • Nepal: Respect child rights, say UN agencies
  • Release Dr Binayak Sen, says IAWS
  • Half the world’s population will live in cities by the end of 2008
  • A case of legal eligibility versus social ineligibility
  • Bangladesh: People suffering due to Emergency
  • Government schemes not reaching the disabled
  • Afghanistan: Scars of violence
  • Indebted small farmers in India get a reprieve
  • NGOs feeling unsafe in Pakistan
  • In pursuit of a sustainable urban setting
  • Sea levels could rise 5-feet by 2100, say experts
  • ILO conference to focus on Green jobs
  • Indian citizens join Greenpeace on climate alert campaign
  • Hope to save climate lies with civil society
  • Human failure in disasters
  • Most Indians spending from pockets on health
  • Muslims demand more resource allocation
  • 9% for health and education still a distant dream
  • ‘No reservation please, you are a Muslim’
  • Hope to save climate lies with civil society
  • Making women comfortable with themselves
  • India’s north-east on a slow simmer
  • Manual scavenging: Entering the belly of the beast
  • ‘An attractive public transport system will make people switch from cars to buses’
  • India sitting on tobacco epidemic
  • ‘There’s more to Afghanistan than fighting’
  • Miraculous turnaround in Mewat
  • A people’s journalist
  • A farewell to Baba Amte
  • Gaining fortunes from herbs
  • Rural newswomen sensitise villagers on gender
  • Building hopes for rural women
  • Mobiles: the drivers of change in developing nations
  • Humble vehicle as harbinger of change
  • Goa takes huge initiative to promote IT
  • Mobiles for rural health workers
  • Uplifting the socially disadvantaged for the success of MDGs
  • A guide to community radio in India
  • Enabling teachers in ICT
  • Dying young, very young
  • Combating human trafficking with effective policing
  • Eight years on, human rights crusader fights on
  • Create village assets through NREGA, says CSE
  • South Asia discusses protection of child rights
  • Urban health under serious stress
  • Save the diminishing linguistic wealth
  • Women’s right to land and housing
  • Targeted approach to ensure child survival
  • Awarding business-driven solutions in development
  • Prioritise investment in girls, says report
  • Villagers script Corbett’s success story
  • Avian influenza: Good job India, says FAO
  • Slow march to the gallows finally halted
  • Probing the angst and anguish of dalit women
  • Safe sanitation needs mindset change in Pakistan
  • Involve farmers in global seed wealth, say NGOs
  • Bhopal gas victims march to Delhi
  • Radical restructuring of judiciary requires people’s movement
  • Access to water crucial for women
  • Farmers now need not worry about erratic rains
  • Bangladesh confident of achieving sanitation for all
  • Poll shows global support for women's rights
  • A lesson in fundraising
  • Mumbai bank helps sex workers save money
  • Taking sex education to the madarsa
  • Dalit women campaign for land rights
  • Survey reveals women’s growing influence in local governance
  • Hopes of peace from Nepal polls
  • Dilemma over anti-smoking drug
  • More women working than ever before, says ILO
  • Spectre of communalism has many faces
  • Indian tribe an epitome of women's rights
  • Deepalaya gets best NGO award in north India
  • ‘Baseras’ for girls orphaned by militancy
  • Tribal women leaders interface with civil society
  • In the land of Blyth Tragopan
  • AIDS campaign promotes condom use
  • Melting glaciers bigger cause of rising sea levels
  • Pakistan's trained midwives to check newborn deaths
  • Low-cost technology for India's disabled
  • Infosys empowers Indian farmers
  • Software solution for mother and child care
  • Bangladesh: Rural poor rush to the cities in search of jobs
  • New cyber tools for the disabled
  • India still suffers from huge income gap
  • Afghanistan: Opium-driven insurgency
  • Community radio station in Kalpakkam
  • State-run radio in demand
  • Unique software tracks rural job scheme
  • Muslim women challenge patriarchal marriage code
  • Hunger battles: A mountain to climb
  • Burma: Military junta is back to child recruitments
  • Intel to help Bangladesh bridge digital divide
  • River island dwellers in Bangladesh face multiple problems
  • UN agency fears drought more than floods in Afghanistan
  • Flicker of hope for Indian convict
  • Tracking maternal mortality the low-cost way
  • Rights body slams Nepal over Tibetan protests
  • Call to defer implementation of forest rights Act
  • New prime minister for Pakistan
  • A ‘silent famine’ underway in Bangladesh
  • Bhutan embraces democracy
  • Bumper potato crop may save Bangladeshis from starving
  • Sharp reduction in black carbon emission can be a lifesaver
  • 125 million people could face displacement in South Asia
  • Saying no to sexual harassment at work
  • UN report calls for agricultural ‘revolution’ in Asia-Pacific
  • NATO’s indiscriminate bombings alienating Afghans
  • India sits right on top of world polio map
  • Afghanistan: Poppy fields pose dangers to students
  • UN says biofuels hurting Asia's poorest
  • 2008 Stockholm Water Prize goes to ‘virtual water’ innovator
  • Poster girl of Indian women’s movement at 89
  • Sri Lanka needs ‘agricultural renaissance’
  • Pakistani economy: In search of a paradigm shift
  • ‘Indian budget will not raise farm incomes’
  • Tapping water through tunnels
  • Rural teachers get a lifeline
  • A model school for tribals
  • Burma: Chronicle of a referendum foretold
  • Good harvest but food crisis to continue
  • Wheat fungus fear in Pakistan
  • Death of a poet-farmer
  • OneWorld to lead GKP mandate in South Asia
  • No education for all in India
  • Need for more research to solve agricultural crisis
  • What will we do when the last tree has died, the last river poisoned…?
  • World focus back on malaria
  • Public transport answer to Delhi’s jammed roads
  • English learning made easy
  • Bhutan paying for others environmental damage
  • Afghanistan’s food shortage triggering riots
  • Nepal’s most neglected have high hopes of Maoists
  • Saving J&K’s Ladakh region from onslaught of globalisation
  • Making media a partner in development
  • Asian food crisis affects women the most
  • Afghan youth campaign for girls’ education
  • Child rights' violation continues in Nepal
  • Eco Everest featured on Earth.Google.com
  • Indian sex workers get insured
  • Afghan health risks linked to uranium
  • Andaman schools to promote IT literacy
  • Ensure safety in workplace, says ILO
  • Children knock at doors of lawmakers in India
  • Leading oil and gas companies lack transparency, says report
  • India readies for one of world’s biggest census
  • Sri Lanka: Fishing to resume in war-and-tsunami-torn east
  • Threat of extinction hovering over Indian vultures
  • Coping at land’s end
  • A unique way to fight AIDS
  • Two villages in eastern India gobbled up by sea
  • ‘It’s all alien but so full of hope’
  • Cyclone kills hundreds in Myanmar
  • Diarrohea peaks in Bangladesh amidst hot spell
  • Free press crucial to people's empowerment: UN
  • Gender and climate change
  • India’s health system neglects midwives
  • NREGA unleashing a silent revolution in India, says minister
  • Blogging for MDGs
  • Women’s reservation bill to be introduced in Indian parliament
  • Women in governance: ‘Men need to understand the value of partnership’
  • One-size-fits-all approach causing food crisis
  • Midday meal scheme is showing success
  • Food getting beyond reach for Bangladeshi poor
  • Rapid survey to assess hunger in Afghanistan
  • Mining endangers caves in north-east India
  • 200 million children deprived of health care worldwide
  • Indian journalist brings out magazine in Braille
  • Accessing digital knowledge
  • Nepal has homespun its food crisis
  • Poster-child of Indian agriculture, Punjab in throes of crisis
  • Jittery Myanmar keeps foreign aid workers at bay
  • UNICEF’s helping hand for Nepalese families living with HIV
  • Nobel laureates appeal for the release of Indian rights activist
  • India’s children bearing brunt of costly food
  • Afghanistan: Victims of collateral damage in need of assistance
  • Up close and personal: Female suicide bombers
  • Indian goldsmiths face a doomed future
  • M-banking to reach out to India's hinterland
  • Missing mangrove buffer caused more cyclone damage
  • Third World unhappy with EU carbon tax
  • Women's groups want end to gender bias in world economies
  • UN committee castigates India for its pathetic show
  • Fresh agitations in Pakistan
  • Synergising environment with development
  • Poor literacy affects health in Pakistan
  • UN sets new target of 7 billion trees
  • Cyclone memories revisit Bangladesh survivors
  • Washed away by apathy
  • A saga of unending conflicts in South Asia
  • Bamboo water
  • UN drives drug awareness in Indian schools
  • A tank for water woes
  • School beatings make Pakistani students dropout
  • India needs over 92 million jobs by 2012
  • Delhi University gets web-savvy
  • Making MDGs disaster proof
  • NREGA must create sustainable livelihood, say Indian experts
  • Google Earth shows future climate change
  • Burma: Chronicle of a referendum foretold
  • Nepal Elections
  • Security Council must take cognisance of food crisis
  • Rapid survey to assess hunger in Afghanistan
  • Nepal has homespun its food crisis
  • Throwing the baby out with the bath-water
  • 'Children lack power to resist military conscription'
  • No safety net for Sri Lankan migrant workers
  • Vitamin A campaign a success in Bangladesh
  • Bangladesh to issue community radio licenses
  • Delhi's homeless get a secure future
  • Finally, road links villagers to better life
  • Civic engagement crucial for progress on MDGs
  • Gujarat riot victims to be compensated
  • Save water to overcome food crisis, says report
  • Halve emissions by 2050, say G8 environment ministers
  • Voting tough for disabled in Indian elections
  • Cycling for education
  • Right to health through insurance
  • Truth body to fight corruption in Bangladesh
  • Global congress to focus on women in climate governance
  • Research enables rapid HIV tests for pregnant women
  • OWSA to implement LifeLines Education in western India
  • UNEP restructuring debate: India succumbing to ‘outdated mindsets’
  • Energy firms misusing UN climate funds
  • World Bank: India’s healthcare system suffers from absenteeism
  • Folk theatre in Bangladesh educates people on bird flu
  • Nepal: Emergence of a new republic
  • Rural television clubs promote healthy living
  • Trilingual website for Sri Lankan parliament
  • UNICEF to expand education access in western India
  • Social inequality impacts schooling, says UN
  • Fighting HIV at work
  • Burma still stonewalling aid, says rights body
  • Bangladesh’s pro-women policy in doldrums
  • Combating child labour through education
  • Education for all a distant dream
  • The politics of rice in Burma
  • PILs necessary for checking executive arbitrariness
  • Schooling woes in the Indian capital
  • Cyclone-hit Myanmar struggles to grow rice
  • A trade not worth her salt
  • Death penalty in India a lethal lottery, says report
  • Bangalore opens doors to gays
  • India to argue against biofuels at food summit
  • Nepal's rare rhino falling prey to poachers
  • Making children learn disability rights
  • Poverty breeding left-wing extremism in India
  • South Asian Yearbook of Trade & Development
  • Book Review-The WTO: A Discordant Orchestra
  • Indian women speak out against poverty
  • Green technology reaches poor in Bangladesh
  • Public hearings give rural women a voice
  • The death of a river and its people
  • Towards disabled-friendly water solutions
  • Mobiles games to spread climate change message
  • Biofuel debate rocks food summit
  • Delhi children at risk due to lead in household dust
  • Protecting displaced women
  • Climate change to hit India, China worst
  • Nobel laureate wins ILO Decent Work Research Prize
  • Research can revive Indian agriculture
  • A conservationist by choice
  • India to focus on climate change research
  • India to focus on climate change research
  • Development, push comes to shove
  • Equity key to global warming crisis
  • UN announces $6 billion to stave off food crisis
  • Web cameras in Indian villages for distant diagnosis
  • Making the rivers vanish
  • Manage trash to tackle climate change, says report
  • India, Brazil to jointly tackle child labour
  • No shelter, no security
  • Consider the needs of energy poor women in India
  • A month after cyclone, schools reopen in Myanmar
  • ILO campaigns for gender equality at work
  • Bangladeshi farmers adapt to climate change
  • Film institute starts community radio
  • A rugged road to gender equality
  • Former monarch spends last night in palace
  • Funding that perpetuates poverty
  • Village women wield cameras to tell their stories
  • A million survivors still out of bounds in Myanmar
  • Afghanistan: Donors meeting to decide future aid
  • Pakistan: Food crisis adversely impacting children
  • Education must to end child labour
  • Tibetan monks to prove their patriotism
  • A ray of hope for disabled children
  • Lawyers in Pakistan on nationwide protest
  • Educating on HIV/AIDS and Child Labour
  • World’s largest cannabis bust in Afghanistan
  • G7 must increase aid to end global poverty
  • Arrested Bhopal gas victims denied bail
  • Nepal takes measures to tackle malaria
  • Development net cast
  • Afghanistan: Vows of solidarity, but no enthusiasm
  • Former US Senators receive 2008 World Food Prize
  • Fight poverty to end child labour
  • India’s garment industry stained with sweat and tears
  • Girls still used as 'compensation' to settle feuds
  • Managing e-waste
  • June talks crucial for Indo-Pak peace process
  • On track to achieve universal elementary education
  • Philips asked to stop double standards
  • Need for convergence of old and new media for empowerment
  • Indian government: Waves from mobiles can damage brain tissues
  • Bangladesh: Maternal deaths highest in South Asia
  • UN Millennium Campaign and Pratham join hands for MDGs
  • Stand up and act for needy children
  • Smile
  • MDG 3 Champion Torch for UNIFEM head
  • Children still being used as cannon fodder in Sri Lanka
  • The shining star
  • Indian state felicitated by Millennium Campaign
  • BBC starts contest to fight HIV/AIDS
  • Revisiting tsunami's communication lessons
  • Thousands of landless in support of MDGs
  • Bring land reforms back on agenda
  • Landless poor marching to claim their rights
  • Record 13 million Indians stand against poverty
  • Asserting the right to be heard
  • 'Poverty is not static'
  • See poverty through women's eyes
  • India going slow in reducing hunger, says Global Hunger Index
  • UNMC report on grassroots voices
  • A hospital where poor get their vision back
  • Bangladesh mulls over national child labour policy
  • Fund to boost energy efficiency in public buildings
  • Most of US aid to Pakistan goes in military spending
  • Bridging the gap between religious and modern education
  • Sri Lankan tea pluckers taste a bitter brew
  • Migration impact on women and child health
  • A website for tribal women
  • ‘Bread sandwich method’ for growing vegetables
  • Afghan refugees: Torn between desire and fear
  • Hopes rekindle for thousands of prisoners on death row
  • Villagers stranded due to landmines in Afghanistan
  • Female foeticide continues unabated in India
  • Water woes in rural India
  • Laws in India criminalise leprosy
  • India does not need World Bank to save its tigers
  • Nepal’s women power
  • Dalit women face discrimination at multiple levels: Report
  • Fertlizer shortage just before soybean season in India
  • IT centre in Sri Lankan village
  • ‘Rivers’ fury too strong to control’
  • Emergency relief in clash zone of Afghanistan
  • UNSC says rape is a tactic of war to humiliate
  • Energy saving stoves receive recognition
  • India likely to endorse national policy on AIDS
  • Myanmar cyclone victims ‘living precariously’
  • Regime of impunity responsible for custodial deaths in India
  • Indian villages become models of cleanliness
  • India is South Asia’s largest market for drugs
  • Political parties in Bangladesh oppose local elections
  • Despair driving women to commit suicides in Pakistan
  • Vanishing ‘moral commons’ in Indian society
  • Pakistan's local agents of change
  • Women need to stand up for their rights
  • Chronicling the decay of India’s water systems
  • Online games with social messages
  • Human rights then and now
  • 'Democracy in India is failing'
  • Middle class sheds inhibition to buy subsidised rice
  • Proud landowners
  • Polling in Nepal begins
  • A guide for advocacy on safe water
  • Cry for my beloved country
  • Indian apex court upholds validity of reservation
  • A trail blazer by dalit women scribes
  • Edu-tainment as tool for behaviour change
  • Lending ear to minority voices
  • No longer shying away from AIDS
  • Feminisation of HIV/AIDS in Pakistan
  • Providing a virtual solution
  • Guinea pigs of the world
  • The famous Jaipur Foot all set for makeover
  • A visionary step for the visionless
  • Pride of Sri Lanka’ Award goes to Ariyaratne
  • Human rights in a world of terror
  • Children are highest casualties in Bangladesh cyclone
  • Responding to violence against women
  • Candles mark South Asian Women’s Day in Indian capital
  • Afghanistan’s opium driven GDP
  • Barefoot teachers usher in change
  • Human rights body calls for ban on Burma’s gem trade
  • Let us compete in poverty eradication: Muhammad Yunus
  • The humble yet vital toilet
  • Appeal from Human Rights activist Asma Jahangir
  • Organisations in India protest against emergency in Pakistan
  • Children say Nine is Mine
  • Nine is Mine campaigners find support from child rights body chairperson
  • No more violence, cry Nandigram villagers
  • Amnesty condemns attack on farmers in Nandigram
  • Track and support MDGs
  • Documenting India's state of health
  • Stand Up’s numbers Speak Out loud
  • Enslaved children rescued from GAP sweatshop
  • Rising oil prices a threat to MDGs
  • Government responds to Janadesh demands
  • ‘Unannounced jail’ for 25,000 protestors
  • Indian survey highlights spousal abuse, no pay for working women
  • Child slavery thriving in Indian cotton industry
  • Invest in agriculture to end poverty: World Bank report
  • South Asian countries off track in meeting MDGs
  • People’s walk to claim dignity
  • Singing poverty goodbye
  • Standing up to impact change
  • Sri Sri Ravi Shankar supports campaign
  • Pakistan’s monster banner to unfurl failed MDG promises
  • World Bank under scanner in Indian capital
  • Tribunal charges World Bank with gross abuse of human rights
  • IMF forced to retreat in Bangladesh
  • Afghanistan celebrates International Day of Peace
  • Human waste creating a stink in Sri Lanka
  • Tribals hit by cholera outbreak in India
  • Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector
  • International Day of the Disappeared- Number of missing people continues to rise: HRCP
  • Amnesty International India releases handbook to stamp out torture
  • Book on sustainable agriculture launched
  • South Asia suffers ‘worst floods in living memory’
  • Asserting for transparency
  • Gender and Indicators: A BRIDGE Cutting Edge pack
  • Rich-poor gap widens in Bangladesh
  • India way behind in achieving MDGs
  • Village school comes out on top in Indian state
  • India’s Nirmal Gram leading way to cleanliness
  • Hindon River: Gasping for Breath
  • Dalits can fare better through Millennium Development Goals
  • Global meltdown: India needs to act fast
  • Yamuna Satyagraha marches to save a dying river
  • Indian water activists campaign to save Yamuna
  • Is Contract Farming Really the Solution for Indian Agriculture?
  • Pakistan:Despite odds village girls get an education
  • Planning commission meet to focus on Indian women's right to land
  • Indian women speak out against poverty
  • Coke verdict: Not safe…safe…not safe
  • UN and the Afghan government urge for aid
  • Bangladesh dolphins are not breathing easy
  • Tsunami report card
  • Communication lessons
  • fishing boats
  • Afghanistan’s food shortage triggering riots
  • Nepal Maoists in commanding position
  • Pakistan tables bill to remove media restrictions
  • Computerised designs make it tough for Chirala weavers
  • Homing dignity
  • Limited human movement on Indo-Nepal border
  • ‘Indian budget will not raise farm incomes'
  • Protracted struggle forces ADB to pull out of Phulbari
  • Love for bushmeat: India's rare species at risk
  • ‘Reintegration of child soldiers is a development issue’
  • Community radio in India set to go global
  • Indian women to defend frontiers
  • UN to stay in Afghanistan, says Ban Ki-moon
  • Dalit women leaders show the way
  • Need to ‘move people in the heart' on poverty
  • Guinness record for Stand Up, Speak Out
  • Reaching out to 120 countries to 'Stand Up'
  • WNTA urges minister to push for right to education bill
  • People’s report card fails India’s ruling UPA Government
  • Indian government comes under civil society scrutiny
  • Indian PM meets 9-is-Mine delegates
  • SMS blood to save lives
  • Radio plays English teacher
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality & empower women
  • MDG 4,5 & 6 on Health
  • MDG 8 : Develop global partnership for development
  • MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Hunger Bytes
  • Women mobilise community to turnaround slum
  • Human Rights in South Asia
  • Social Justice: Introduction
  • Employment Opportunity in Informal sector: A Case study of Delhi Slum
  • First temple to allow Dalits entry
  • Story of deprivation: dalits plight of landlessness and social and physical vulnerability
  • Liberalisation will not remove caste prejudice
  • ICT for thwart Atrocity: initiative of an atrocity helpline backed by Call centre
  • Priyanka Calling !! - a story on Dalit life in India
  • Economics behind dalits massacre: Bhalchandra Mungekar
  • India enacts law to ensure women’s safety in the home
  • Awakening: Empowering women through microloans
  • My mother fought to keep me: resorting female power
  • On Domestic Violence Act
  • Forum for South Asian women mooted
  • Gender equality: India better than neighbours
  • Empower women for a stable society: Abdul Kalam
  • The land is ours! How India's women farmers are becoming a force for change
  • India's diversity not visible in public spaces
  • India dawdling in closing gender gap reveals Gender Gap Index
  • Sex Selective Abortion in Haryana
  • India’s children and women not reaping growth benefits
  • WOMEN'S DAY-INDIA: Two Steps Forward, One Backward
  • We need to fight patriarchy, not men
  • Nepalese Dalit Women at UK Parliament
  • Anaemia a huge problem in India: NFHS-3
  • Special cells to monitor gender quota in government schemes
  • Women to get lifelong shield from dowry
  • Gujarat denying food security to riot survivors: SC panel
  • Women’s groups push for 33 pc quota
  • Job scheme discriminates against women
  • Domestic Violence against Women – recent evidence of its magnitude and trend
  • MDGs – Goal 5: disparities in maternal health in India
  • 10,000 cases filed under India’s new domestic abuse law
  • Muslim women challenge patriarchal marriage code
  • Education for All: a distant dream for socially disadvantaged children
  • Crass inequality on display in our schools
  • 'India’s children deserve better': Amartya Sen
  • 80% of India’s districts have declining sex ratios
  • Use deprivation index to help more sections, suggests panel
  • Women and Children the double dividend of gender equality: State of the World's Children 2007
  • 23 lakh children out of school in Bihar
  • Child budget focuses on education, neglects health
  • More than half of Indian children face sexual abuse: landmark study
  • Kerala, Delhi bag honours in school education
  • World Day Against Child Labour: elimination of child labour in agriculture
  • India: Child labour project for all districts
  • Parents demand expulsion of HIV+ children from school in Kerala; govt stands firm
  • Only 3% of India’s child labour gets schooling: survey
  • Alarming Female Mortality Rate in Rajasthan, India
  • Church set ablaze in Madhya Pradesh
  • Tribals: An easy prey for Naxals
  • Dalits to plough ‘usurped’ lands in Sirudhavur
  • State formulating Dalit industrial policy
  • Integrate tribals, says draft policy
  • Implement OBC quota immediately: Tamil Nadu CM
  • Reservation Day Declared and celebrated
  • Tribal bill taken off the agenda
  • Orissa’s tribals: give us only what’s rightfully ours
  • Indian states back special projects for tribals
  • North East groups challenge 'Tribal Bill'
  • The tribal bill: Moving beyond tigers ….
  • Tribal Groups Seek `pro-people' Changes in Tribal Bill
  • State of Misery: Hunger among tribal population in India
  • Police attack on Tribals in Orissa: Six tribals, policeman killed
  • Orissa tribal children to study in US
  • Working Model: successful leadership in making NREGS work
  • Dang tribals learn of their rights through community radio
  • Cholera claims 95 tribals in Orissa
  • Minority Christians Victimized of their Civil Rights
  • Orissa tribals want probe on mutilations
  • Bandh passes peacefully in protest against the killing of tribals in Orissa
  • Tribal blockade: Naveen's plea to Centre
  • Disabled girl refused hostel room in Pune law college
  • Dalit woman paraded naked
  • Unite against poverty, says VP
  • Landless tribals focus of election in Wayanad
  • 15-point scheme for minorities: President Kalam
  • The National Commission on Scheduled Castes sought explanationon Dalit woman in temple
  • SC rules out Scheduled Tribe status
  • Shabri Kumbh backs anti-conversion law
  • Tribals protest against displacement