Development

23.10.2006 Microsoft India has entered into a partnership with Hughes to create a self-sustaining IT infrastructure in rural areas by deploying broadband enabled ICT kiosks in about 200 towns and villages across the country.

23.10.2006 With the Commonwealth Games 2010 in sight and the experience of the exploitation of the construction workers during the Asian Games 1982 in hindsight, the Social Jurist, a civil rights group, has set up a separate unit namely, Labour Rights Group to monitor the conditions of the construction and other workers in Delhi and and provide totally free legal assistance & support.

23.10.2006 Even though local authorities have been asked to prepare to accommodate thousands of Indian children expected to be freed from their jobs by raids conducted on homes and restaurants, activists say scant attention has been paid to how they will be rehabilitated.

23.10.2006 Leading black and Asian professional women in Britain have called on their peers to 'storm the doors' of blue chip companies, following a report this week that shows that a form of employment apartheid is rife in Britain.

23.10.2006 The Marxist geographer David Harvey could not have chosen a more appropriate time to come to Mumbai. For his analysis of neo-liberalism and its impact on forms of urbanisation had an uncanny resonance vis-à-vis what is happening in India's financial capital.

23.10.2006 As many as child labourers have been identified in the district since the District Child Labour Project Society started functioning in 2001. Of them, 89 have been rehabilitated, according to U. Chandravathi, Director of the District Child Labour Project Society.

21.10.2006 En las siguientes líneas sostengo que la perspectiva del consumidor, al igual que la perspectiva de género, de niñez, de sostenimiento medio ambiental constituyen aportes valiosos para combatir la pobreza.

20.10.2006 ActionAid-järjestö pitää tervetulleena G8-ryhmän aloitetta, jonka mukaan jokaisen niistä on solmittava kumppanuussopimus jonkin Afrikan maan kanssa vuonna 2007. Toisaalta järjestö varoittaa, ettei muita 35 Afrikan maata saa jättää prosessista syrjään.

20.10.2006 Yhden vuorokauden aikana yhteensä 23 542 614 ihmistä yli sadassa maailman maassa osoitti tukensa YK:n vuosituhattavoitteille ja nousi kirjaimellisesti seisomaan köyhyyttä vastaan "Stand Up" –tempauksessa, jota koordinoivat YK:n vuosituhatkampanja sekä Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) -verkosto. Tempauksella pyrittiin Guinnessin ennätysten kirjaan, ja tavoite saavutettiin.

20.10.2006 The run up to Diwali festivities has seen the launch of a unique campaign in Bangalore by an international charity organisation, Oxfam. Anti poverty campaigners are telling consumers to spare a thought for India's under privileged when they splurge on their Diwali shopping this year.

20.10.2006 The ban on employing children in restaurants, roadside eateries, hotels, and tea shops or as domestic labour, announced by the Government in August, has recently come into effect. Those who violate the ban will be fined and also face a prison term up to two years. This is a welcome move focussing on areas where child labour is rampant and where the exploitation of children is shockingly high.

20.10.2006 In the three decades since secession from Pakistan, Bangladesh has surged way ahead of it in providing essential services to its citizens, according to an Oxfam International report on South Asia

19.10.2006 Madhya Pradeshin asukkaat löivät muun maailman tällä viikolla osallistumisellaan Stand up -kampanjaan köyhyyttä vastaan. Tempaukseen osallistui Madhya Pradeshissa huikeat 3,3 miljoonaa asukasta, mikä on suurin määrä osallistuja yhdeltä alueelta koko maailmassa.

19.10.2006 The boat may be rising but it’s not lifting everyone. Economic growth might have been spectacular since 1993 — that is, post economic reforms — but it seems to have trickled down rather slowly. A soon-to-be-released official report has estimated that poverty declined by a mere 0.74% during the 11-year period ended 2004-05.

19.10.2006 The people of Madhya Pradesh have topped the world in creating a new Guinness World Record. A whopping 3.3 million residents of the state joined the "Stand Up Against Poverty" event this week, which is the largest figure from a single region across the world.

19.10.2006 The Bihar government is eagerly waiting to know whether the norms on nursery admission as brought into place in New Delhi, would apply to the states as well. For, the norms put down by a Delhi High Court-appointed committee headed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman Ashok Ganguly spell out a selection system which is completely in conflict with the Common School System adopted by Bihar which believes in equal access to education.

19.10.2006 The Bank's Development Outreach features a special report aimed at raising debate and sharing perspectives on understanding the relationship between human rights and economic development

19.10.2006 A Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) needs assessment report has reckoned that the government should mobilize almost double the current level of foreign assistance for the next decade if the goals are to be achieved.

19.10.2006 All'indomani della grande mobilitazione mondiale "Stand up", che ha visto alzarsi in piedi 23 milioni di persone in tutto il mondo contro la povertà, il Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano ha inviato alla Campagna un messaggio nel quale ricorda che "gli Obiettivi del Millennio affermano l’obbligo della realizzazione di elementari diritti umani. Siamo quasi a metà del cammino indicato nell’anno 2000 e la sfida resta ardua. Ci sono segnali incoraggianti - nota il Presidente- ma donatori e beneficiari possono e devono fare di più, nella consapevolezza che è interesse di tutti accelerare le tappe del percorso intrapreso per vincere povertà e sottosviluppo". La coordinatrice esecutiva del Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite sugli Obiettivi del Millenno ha sottolineato che "il record che vogliamo realmente stabilire è quello di porre fine alle promesse disattese e all’indifferenza nei confronti della povertà".

18.10.2006 In churches and schools, in slums and outside posh hotels, on Indian cricket fields and in Mexican football stadiums, close to 24 million people participated in the United Nations-led “STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY” initiative to remind world leaders of their promises to eliminate extreme poverty by 2015.