Education for all a distant dream in India
Bhutan democracy needs to tackle refugee issue
Poverty makes Afghan parents sell child brides
NGO rehabilitates sex workers in laundry project
Even as UNESCO’s latest report pans India for lagging
behind in the race for achieving education for all
by 2015, experts gathered in the capital weigh up
the nationally sponsored Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
Exclusion and discrimination remain core challenges
as millions of children remain outside its fold,
is the verdict by anti-poverty network
Wada Na Todo Abhiyan.
Read more¦
Girls in a
government run school in rural West Bengal- Photo credit: OWSA
As Bhutan took its first steps towards democracy,
a meeting by South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR)
at the Indian capital takes a close look at its
refugees living in exile. Can the new democracy
make them bona fide citizens of a country that
once belonged to them?
Read more¦
Poverty and high food prices are forcing Afghan
parents to marry off their daughters at a tender
age in exchange for food and cash. Badakhshan
in northern Afghanistan has the highest number
of women dying in childbirth in the world, says
the UN
Read more¦
Swift Wash can pass off as a
regular laundry in Goa save
that it is run by rehabilitated
sex workers. This NGO-run project
has brought dignity, hope and
a fresh lease of life to these
women in western India.
Read more…
Khabar
Lahariya, a fortnightly by Dalit women scribes is setting
India’s rural hinterland ablaze with its in-depth take on
politics and development news.
Using Edu-tainment for Distance Education in Community
Work is a guide to creating distance education programmes
in the Edu-tainment format for radio, TV and the internet.
Clear and concise, the book is a valuable resource for NGOs,
donors, programme managers, writers and producers working
in developing countries.
State of the World’s Minorities 2008 gives
a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of climate change
on minorities and indigenous people, including first-hand
accounts from communities themselves. The report calls for
equitable and just mitigation and adaptation strategies
that take into account needs of all sections of society.
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