Buscador: Exclusió social

31/05/2006 Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) on May 23, 2006, demanded allocation of at least Tk 25 crore in the budget for 2006-07 for women entrepreneurship development. They also demanded tax holiday facility for up to 10 years for the women entrepreneurs.

27/05/2006 L'Italia si distingue per il più alto livello di privazione infantile d'Europa con il 16,6% di minori segnati da povertà materiali: lo afferma il nuovo Rapporto su "I diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza in Italia" presentato ieri da da Save the Children. Stime recenti valutano in 17 milioni i bambini in stato di povertà in Europa, con l’Italia al secondo posto per minori poveri. Secondo l’Unicef il 16,3% dei bambini nel nostro paese vive al di sotto della soglia nazionale della povertà. Una fascia di bambini e ragazzi particolarmente vulnerabile è quella dei minori migranti che rischiano di cadere vittime di sfruttamento sia sessuale che lavorativo e di devianza: sono quasi 6.500 i minori stranieri non accompagnati in Italia. “La diffusione della prostituzione minorile, a volte collegata alla tratta dei minori, è una delle facce della scarsa tutela e solitudine dei minori stranieri, benché il fenomeno coinvolga anche molti minori italiani" - ha fatto notare Arianna Saulini, coordinatrice del Gruppo di Lavoro del Rapporto.

27/05/2006 Most government programmes fail despite heavy investment, thanks to the hasty decisions made in introducing new programmes. Similar is the case of Inclusive Education (IE) classes in Dadeldhura district meant to provide education to the disadvantaged groups and disabled children.

26/05/2006 As economists and politicians debate what to do about the latest challenges facing the International Monetary Fund (IMF), civil society groups have a straightforward answer: take the IMF off life support.

17/05/2006 La guerrilla carcelaria, desencadenada el fin de semana del 13 y 14 de mayo, visibiliza la precariedad del sistema carcelario brasileño. Si rejas y muros aseguran físicamente a los presos, los avances electrónicos y la negligencia de las autoridades permiten que, de dentro hacia afuera, comanden acciones criminales

17/05/2006 On the occasion of May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Labris, organization for lesbian human rights, invited once again the Serbian Medical Society to publicly confirm that homosexuality is not a disease.

11/05/2006

EASY TARGET: A Dalit victim of the atrocity

Implementation of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act under fire.

10/05/2006 In a statement to Dawn Amna, who had recently spearheaded a revolt against the widespread vani tradition in Mianwali, said: “It seems that we are being punished for crying out against the cruelty. Hopes for justice kindled with the intervention of the Supreme Court have been snuffed out as lower courts are constantly denying bails to my (imprisoned) uncles, while the people of rival family have been released after serving only a short stint in the lock-ups”. Nadeem Saeed reports.

10/05/2006 The Bangladesh government plans to appoint female sub-inspectors of police at all police stations in the country, state minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar told the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday.

09/05/2006 Exactamente 217 personas fueron detenidas por las fuerzas de seguridad mexicanas en los operativos realizados en San Salvador, Atenco y Texcoco. De estas, 14 quedaron heridas durante los enfrentamientos del miércoles, 03.

09/05/2006 ¿Vicente Fox Quesada no tendrá cuando menos un asesor que le aconseje que estas no son las formas adecuadas para reprimir o vengarse de un poblado, que en defensa de sus tierras, seguramente lo agravió al no permitirle realizar la obra de su sexenio?

09/05/2006 Desde la traición de los tres poderes de la Unión en 2001, cuando el Estado Mexicano decidió no reconocer los derechos de los pueblos indios, comprendimos que estábamos solos y que teníamos que ejercer nuestros propios derechos y nuestra autonomía en los hechos.

05/05/2006 “Me voy preocupado en general por la situación indígena y me voy muy preocupado por algunas situaciones particulares”, señaló el mexicano Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Relator especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la situación de los derechos humanos y las libertades fundamentales de los pueblos indígenas.

04/05/2006 The OSCE Mission and the UNHCR Representation to Serbia and Montenegro held the first meeting yesterday of the Interagency Working Group on Roma in Serbia.

02/05/2006 Saima Batool, 25, a resident of Chakwal in Pakistan, had sought protection from the local union councillors who, after failing to make the family mend its ways, took her to the non- governmental Pattan Development Organisation active in the area.

01/05/2006 Having a female as the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan or having two couples of female air force officers may not begin to address the problem of female equality or female rights. It is like one swallow does not make a number. The problem has to be tackled systematically and methodically. The question is who is going to do it and how?