Full coverage: Development

20.12.2006 Employment of children is a criminal offence under Section 14 of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986. The employer can be jailed for not less than 3 months but which may extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than Rupees ten thousand but which may extend to Rupees Twenty thousand or both

19.12.2006 "Empowerment of women will ensure a stable society" said Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, during an interaction with students of Avinashilingam University in the Indian state of Tamilnadu on 19th December 2006.

19.12.2006 Makedonskiot centar za megjunarodna sorabotka (MCMS) za potrebite na programata Lokalen razvoj na zaednicite (LRZ) 2006-2009 raspisuva KONKURS, za tekstovi na tema „Uspesno iskoristuvanje na IPARD fondovite”

19.12.2006 Developing countries have successfully resisted pressures to “move first” to end the current stalemate in the Doha Development Round of WTO negotiations. This is a sign of “growing maturity” and is of critical importance as this may well be the “last opportunity” to put the development dimension at the centre stage of WTO negotiations, opined Gopal K Pillai, Commerce Secretary, Government of India and the country’s chief negotiator at the WTO here today.

19.12.2006 Declining fertility rates have changed the age structure of India’s population, resulting in a “bulge” in the working age-group. This “demographic dividend” has improved the dependency ratio leading to the hypothesis that the bulge in working population will lead to an acceleration in growth argues C P Chandrasekar, Jayati Ghosh and Anamitra

19.12.2006 The Digital Divide Report presents the information and communication technology diffusion index (ICTDI) for 2004.
There is an immense information and communication technology (ICT) gap, a “digital divide”, between developed and developing countries. A person in a high-income country is over 22 times more likely to be an Internet user than someone in a low-income country.

19.12.2006 This year Human Rights Day focuses on fighting poverty as a matter of obligation, not of charity. Poverty is a cause and a product of human rights violations.

19.12.2006 A new law guaranteeing rural employment may be changing centuries-old power relations in India's villages. Dirt-poor villagers, denied work or cheated, have dared defy local authorities and testify against them in a people's court attended by top government officials.

19.12.2006 A public hearing has been organised in the Development Committe of the European Parliament to address human rights slot on the situation of the Dalits in India

18.12.2006 Globalisaatio näyttäisi vähentävän seuraavien vuosikymmenien aikana köyhyyttä huomattavasti, mutta suuria haasteita ovat muun muassa tulonjako ja ilmastonmuutos, todetaan "Global Economic Prospects" -raportissa. Raportin mukaan talouskasvu nostaa satoja miljoonia köyhyydestä, uutisoi ulkoministeriö.

18.12.2006 The UN General Assembly has adopted a landmark disability convention, the first human rights treaty of the twenty-first century and one that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said represents the "dawn of a new era" for around 650 million people worldwide living with disabilities.

18.12.2006 The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2006 adopted by the Lok Sabha is a landmark legislation that seeks to empower traditional forest-dwelling communities by giving them security of tenure, access to minor forest produce, and a big stake in the preservation of natural spaces.

18.12.2006 gender parity plays a pivotal role in improving economic and social conditions, researchers warned that continued discrimination against women could jeopardise global efforts for poverty reduction and other development-related issues.

18.12.2006 December 10, 2006: Today the world celebrates the 58th anniversary of the UN Charter of Human Rights as the International Human Rights Day, but the people of Singur or Narmada or Raigad (Maharashtra), Dadri-Bajada (UP) cannot partake in these celebrations.

18.12.2006 The Rajinder Sachar Committee finds that the Muslim community in India is deprived and neglected, and makes far-reaching recommendations.

15.12.2006 Leaders of Andean governments who thought that the Free Trade Agreement with the United States would deepen the process of Andean integration turned out to be dead wrong.

15.12.2006 Created in 2001 by Mexican President Vicente Fox as "an instrument of cooperation that aims to integrate the Mesoamerican region, coordinating actions of the seven Central American countries and nine states that make up the south-southeastern region of Mexico," Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) has never fully took off.

15.12.2006 Creado en el 2001 por el presidente mexicano Vicente Fox como "un instrumento de cooperación que busca integrar a la región mesoamericana, coordinando acciones de los siete países de Centroamérica y los nueve estados que integran la región sur sureste de México", el Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) no ha logrado despegar del todo.

15.12.2006 A World Bank report - Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization - released on Friday in Indian capital New Delhi warns that globalization could spur faster growth in developing countries but could be accompanied by growing income inequality and potentially severe environmental pressures.

15.12.2006 New law guaranteeing rural employment may be changing centuries-old power relations in India's villages. Dirt-poor villagers, denied work or cheated, have dared defy local authorities and testify against them in a people's court attended by top government officials.