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Two-child norm puts panchayats under pressure The mandatory two-child norm for panchayat members, that exists in many Indian states, is proving to be more divisive than productive, with many women being forced to step down from their posts despite having little say in the number of children they have More... Baina beach demolitions: What about the sex worker's right to shelter?Acting on orders by the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court, around 250 huts belonging to sex workers, on Goa's Baina beach, were bulldozed in an effort to 'clean up' Goa. 'Operation Monsoon Demolition' appears to have been based on the assumption that sex workers have no right to shelter More... Putting a premium on diversityThis year's Human Development Report comes as a breath of fresh air. It emphasises that enjoying cultural freedoms in the 21st century is a basic human right. And that instead of viewing diversity as a drag on development, we should consider cultural liberty an integral component of social and economic progress More... Fighting the stigma of being HIV-positiveWomen in Karnataka talk about the stigma and discrimination they face because of their HIV-positive status More... The female face of AIDSWorld leaders and policymakers are concerned that an increasing number of women are getting infected with the HIV virus. Latest trends show that nearly half of all people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide are women More... A clear and present danger in AsiaA roundup of the recently concluded 15th International AIDS Conference 2004, held in the Thai capital Bangkok More... Resettlement and rehabilitation: Moving from an inadequate policy to a bad one'The new National Policy on Resettlement and Rehabilitation for Projected Affected Families is a regression from the earlier draft. While the earlier one believed in 'total rehabilitation', the new policy does not even give a timeframe for rehabilitation! Conservative estimates put the number of families displaced by development projects at over 20 million up to 1991 More... Dr M S Swaminathan: 'Job-led growth can only come from agriculture'Dr M S Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution, is determined to put agriculture centre stage in India's economy. With 600 million people employed in agriculture, he sees it as being the single largest private enterprise in the country More... Three by Five sparks 'paradigm shift' in India...Or does it?In December 2003, the Indian government declared a strong policy-cum-programme commitment to provide free ARV treatment to 100,000 AIDS patients. But important issues related to the creation of a conducive atmosphere for AIDS patients, confidentiality and the creation of a health infrastructure within the public health system have still to be addressed More... Google-opoly: The wonder search engine's days of innocence are overOn the World Wide Web, Google is God. It is incredibly efficient at analysing web information and serving up the most relevant pages. But increasingly, there are whispers of Google's arbitrariness, its inherent bias towards big players, its arch-conservatism and its monopoly over Internet information dissemination More... 'The challenge is to make panchayati raj institutions vehicles for both governance and delivery'Mani Shankar Aiyar, India's new minister for panchayati raj, talks about the need for a full-fledged ministry for local self-government, and the achievements of the 1 million women who are now active at the panchayat level More... |
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