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21 November 2009
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Indian cabinet clears Bundelkhand package
20-11-2009
Bundelkhand region in India has been reeling under drought for quite some time now. The central government’s special drought mitigation package of more than Rs 70 billion for the next three years promises to bring relief to the people.
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Aid
Drought
Food security
India
South Asia
Indian villagers winning fight against climate
20-11-2009
As the world anxiously watches the devastating effects of climate change, noted actor Shivani Vazir Pasrich inaugurated an exhibition in India’s national capital yesterday. It provides glimpses of an entirely different picture of villagers battling and winning over the impact of climate change.
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Shivani Vazir Pasrich inaugurating the exhibition/ Photo credit: Oxfam
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Environment
Climate change
India
South Asia
Sri Lanka: Migration dream remains, despite dangers
19-11-2009
Both Sinhala and Tamil Sri Lankans want to leave the country for reasons of security and to seek better economic opportunities abroad. While some go through legal channels, there are many who take an illegal route at great personal risks.
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An illegal migrant who set off for New Zealand from northwestern Sri Lanka, only to run into Australian immigration officials. Despite a harrowing journey, he is willing to try again/ Photo credit: IRIN
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Sri Lanka
South Asia
Employment
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India: Removing stigma and inculcating toilet culture
19-11-2009
World Toilet Organisation head, on his India visit to celebrate the World Toilet Day, says there is need to raise global awareness on sustainable sanitation. He points out privatisation can help toilets in India to catch up with growing standards of living.
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Most public toilets in India are unhygienic/ Photo credit: Guardian
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India
Health
Sanitation
South Asia
Afghanistan to be polio-free in two years: WHO
19-11-2009
WHO is targeting to eradicate polio from Afghanistan within next two years. Much of it will depend on how smoothly the agency is able to carry out its six-round immunisation drive.
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An Afghan health worker dropping polio vaccine into the mouth of a child during a vaccination campaign in Kabul/ Photo credit: Britannica
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Afghanistan
South Asia
Health
Children
Disease
Local communities in Nepal to manage forests
19-11-2009
Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This will not only help tackle the rapid deforestation but will also generate income for the poor.
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Putting Nepal's forests in the hands of community people/ Photo credit: Community Forestry Workshop
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Climate change
Nepal
Forests
Environment
Conservation
South Asia
Indian green lessons for the West
18-11-2009
Developed nations are putting pressure on India to agree to cut its carbon emissions at the next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. In the country’s most industrialised state, Gujarat, people are at it to prove that the answer to low-carbon growth lies in homegrown solutions.
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Cow dung is a key part of the Gujarat project/ Photo credit: BBC
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Climate change
South Asia
India
Renewable energy
Afghanistan, India, Myanmar among world's most corrupt
18-11-2009
Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Somalia, Myanmar are among the most corrupt nations of the world, says Transparency International’s new annual index. The report says that countries plagued by long-standing conflicts tend to be most corrupt because of the collapse of governance infrastructure.
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Corruption & transparency
South Asia
India
Governance
Nepal must act on extrajudicial killings
18-11-2009
In Nepal, the failure of the government to investigate and prosecute extrajudicial killings during the country’s civil war (1996-2006) continues to haunt the families of victims. The UN and the rights activists say that this has perpetuated a culture of impunity.
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The Maoist rebels are equally blamed for serious human rights violations/ Photo credit: IRIN
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Human rights
South Asia
Nepal
Justice & crime
Conflict
Pakistan: Soup kitchens helping stave off hunger
18-11-2009
Escalating food prices have thrust the poor into deeper poverty and hunger in Pakistan, making them rely on soup kitchens. The ongoing World Food Summit in Rome has rekindled hopes of generating action from the international community to tackle hunger worldwide.
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Soup kitchens have come to the rescue of many hungry/ Photo credit: IPS
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Pakistan
Food security
Poverty
South Asia
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