Full coverage: Development

17.05.2006 Los movimientos y organizaciones sociales y políticas de América Latina, el Caribe y Europa, divulgaron las declaraciones finales del encuentro social Enlazando Alternativas 2

16.05.2006 Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (AFHRD) yesterday urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Cabinet to address Human Rights Violations related to the peace process.

16.05.2006 For nearly two decades, Tamil Selvi has been running a vegetable stall on the dusty corner of a street in a residential area in Madurai, a major town in southern Tamil Nadu, India. Soma Basu, in Terra Viva, highlights the situation of street vendors in the state.

16.05.2006 From the time of the English rule to Pakistani regime and finally Bangladeshi system, education has evolved not only in methods but also in fundamental aspects like language and governance.

16.05.2006 The Indian leadership has been trying to position the country as a knowledge hub, but is India merely relying on its people for this reputation? Has India been able to attract foreign India, thereby validating its position as a knowledge hub — international students account for less than 8,000 of the entire higher education population.

16.05.2006 Providing proper nutrition for children below five years is a national responsibility and an obligation of the Government, as it is essential to provide an intelligent future generation, said Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Additional Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilake.

16.05.2006 An unusual ‘padyatra' or march by members of some 165 civil society groups from across India has just concluded in this dry, treeless district of northwestern Rajasthan state.

16.05.2006 Asiantuntijat, tutkijat ja toimittajat keskustelivat 12.5. seminaarisa pakolaisuudesta politiikan ja median näkökulmasta. Eurooppalainen näkökulma oli esillä vahvasti. ERCEn mukaan Euroopan Unionissa pyritään kiinnittämään entistä enemmän huomiota vastuun jakamiseen, integraatioon,
suojeluun alkuperäalueilla ja prosessien läpinäkyvyyden parantamiseen.

16.05.2006 For nearly two decades, Tamil Selvi, 45, has been rendering a silent service on the dusty corner of a street in a residential area of this major town in southern Tamil Nadu state.

16.05.2006 The top leaders of the seven-party alliance today failed to arrive at a consensus on the contents of the proposed parliamentary declaration. The leaders are expected to thrash a way out in the next two days.

16.05.2006 It was in February that the Indian government introduced the national
rural employment guarantee (NREG) scheme. Launched in 200 districts in
14 states, it promises 100 days of wage labour to one adult member in
every rural household who volunteers for unskilled work.

16.05.2006 In his message on the International Day of Families, Secretary-General Kofi Annan noted recent profound transformations in families, many of whom call into question the structure of society as we know it; they require us to work together to adapt and to shape public policy in a way that addresses the needs of families, to ensure that basic services are provided to all citizens irrespective of their family situation.

15.05.2006

social audit of rural work

THE National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is barely three months old on the ground. This is precisely why the mass social audit of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Dungarpur district in southern Rajasthan in April held enormous implications for the way this ambitious piece of legislation could take root across the 200 districts in the country where it has been implemented.

15.05.2006 Pakistan spends only 2.3 per cent of its Gross National Income (GNI) on education as compared to 3.6 per cent in South Asia and 3.4 per cent in low-income countries, according to the ?Little green data book 2006 Launched by the World Bank.

15.05.2006 The political class is well aware of the “revolution of rising expectations.” There is increasing empirical evidence that high-growth states are best able to attack poverty and increase employment, that there is no meaningful alternative to policies that focus on high economic growth. State governments need to focus on improving infrastructure, achieving sound law and order and attracting private investment in order to raise growth.

15.05.2006 The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) will launch a month-long awareness campaign from Monday in 138 villages, slums and other localities throughout the State to create awareness among people on the importance of education and bring back dropouts to schools.

15.05.2006 The Centre has decided to ask all states to include or amend laws to make right to education a fundamental right. The Centre intends to pass on to the states the additional expenditure incurred on its educational initiatives.

12.05.2006 Enlazando Alternativas 2, EA2, evento paralelo al encuentro de los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de América Latina y el Caribe y los de la Unión Europea, inauguró sus actividades

12.05.2006 Mohammad Sajjad had dreamt of becoming a cricketer. His idol: Irfan Pathan. Destiny, however, landed him at a railway overbridge construction site at Ara. His job involved carrying sandbags and stone chips, weighing about 40 kg, over his head, 6 to 6. He is only 13.

12.05.2006 Kahden kilometrin pituisen rakenteilla olevan sillan hahmo näkyy kauas Mekong-joen varrella. Silta on osa Aasian kehityspankin ja alueen maiden suunnittelemaa 1500 kilometrin mittaista itä-länsi –talouskäytävää