Full coverage: Poverty

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.

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 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 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.

14.12.2006 Me rastin e 10 dhjetorit, Ditës Ndërkombëtare të Drejtave të Njeriut, Zyra e Komisionarit të Lartë të KB-së për të Drejtat e Njeriut në Serbi ka ftuar gjithë akterët relevantë shoqërorë, e posaçërisht institucionet e shtetit të luftojnë varfërinë nëpërmes mbrojtjes dhe fuqizimit të kulturës së drejtave të njeriut.

14.12.2006 Perhaps more than any other purely economic issue, inflation has always been a pressing socio-political concern in India. That is because the vast majority of our working people receive incomes that are not indexed to prices, and are therefore directly and adversely affected especially by the rise in prices of necessities.

13.12.2006 Suomen Lähetysseuran ensi vuoden budjetti kasvaa noin 0,6 miljoonalla eurolla tämänvuotisesta. Lähetysseuran johtokunnan hyväksymän toiminta- ja taloussuunnitelman mukaan vuoden 2007 varsinaiset toimintakulut ovat 25,5 miljoonaa euroa. Lähetysseuran ulkomainen työ on laajentunut viime vuosina, minkä on mahdollistanut pääasiassa kasvavat valtion kehitysyhteistyöavustukset.

13.12.2006 International Labour Organisation (ILO) is all set to start an employment project in the post-conflict Nepal, focusing mainly on Ramechhap and Dhanusa districts.This is the first joint venture project of this sort between the ILO and the Nepal government, focusing on employment generation. The project is likely to start within the next six months as it is still in the formulation phase

12.12.2006 On the occasion of December 10, the International Human Rights Day, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Serbia invited all relevant social actors, especially the state institutions, to contribute to the fight against poverty through protection and strengthening of human rights culture.

12.12.2006 With only 11 per cent of the earth’s surface considered prime land for feeding a global population expected to reach 8.2 billion by 2020, early warning systems for climate change are crucial in fighting land degradation that already affects 250 million people and threatens 1 billion more, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned.

11.12.2006 Povodom Medjunarodnog dana ljudskih prava, 10. decembra, Kancelarija visokog komesara UN za ljudska prava u Srbiji pozvala je sve relevantne društvene aktere društva, posebno državne institucije, da kroz zaštitu i jačanje kulture ljudskih prava doprinesu borbi protiv siromaštva u Srbiji.

11.12.2006 Human rights activists and politicians have asked the government to implement the report of Rayamajhi Commission to end the culture of impunity and for protection of human rights.

08.12.2006 Mukul Sharma and Charu Gupta write about the India Social Forum that took place from Nov 9-13 and list their expectations from the social, cultural and developmental jambooree. Read on for more...

08.12.2006 The Hong Kong-based human rights organisation, Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), says that discontent over malfunctioning democracies and legal systems and the consequent setbacks these shortcomings cause for human rights and the rule of law, are marked features that define the year 2006 in many Asian countries.

07.12.2006 The Indian government is disappointed with international response to technology transfers and foreign direct investments under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol as it restricts the country’s ability to fight climate change.

07.12.2006 Israelissa kymmenille tuhansille kunnantyöntekijöille ei ole maksettu palkkaa kuukausiin. Heidän työnantajansa ovat pahasti velkaantuneita ja kassakriisissä, eikä valtio suostu siirtämään surkeasti hoidetuille kunnille maksuosuuksiaan. Heikoimmassa tilassa olevat kunnat maksoivat työntekijöilleen palkkaa viimeksi vuoden alkukuukausina.

06.12.2006 Amnesty International releases a book - Human Rights for Human Dignity - in New Delhi on the occasion of the World Dignity Day. Speakers at the meeting shared their concern at the way the Indian government was pandering to the interests of the corporates ignoring the poor and the marginalised.