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Save Ganga and Save Himalayas Yatra, Save Ganga Movement, New Delhi
Posted on 25 Oct, 2010 03:11 PM
Organizer: Save Ganga Movement
Topics:
Launching Samajik Parivartan Yatra
Posted on 25 Oct, 2010 01:29 PMManual scavenging is the most obnoxious and inhuman practice violating the dignity and human personhood of safai karmacharis. It involves the engagement or employment of sections of people to manually dispose human excreta from dry latrines with bare minimum aids such as scrappers, brooms and baskets.
Manual scavenging is integrally linked with caste system and is imposed on certain dalit sub-caste groups particularly on their women. As a result all persons engaged in manual scavenging are dalits, and of them 82% are women.
The unsung struggles of Safai Karamchari - Updates on Samajik Parivartan Yatra
Posted on 25 Oct, 2010 10:30 AM
7th Oct
The Birsa Munda Marga - Samajik Parivarthan Yatra, started in Dibrugarh, Assam on 7th October at 3 p.m.
Samajik Parivartan Yatra updates - 7th October, 2010 : Community meeting held in Valmiki Mohalla
Posted on 22 Oct, 2010 03:19 PMFrom Ludhiana: Bassi Pathana Town - Fathegar sagar district:
A Community meeting was held in Valmiki Mohalla. It was attended by local eminent persons from the community, Mr. Sardar Sukhdev Singh Jamagal - rtrd Additional Judge, Mr. Kaval Jit Singh Mattu, Advocate, Mr. Dholak Ram - and President, Safai karmachari Union, and community leader Mr. Ram ji Lal, Govt Employee. 12 liberated SK women took the responsibility of organising a meeting in the basti with the support of committee people. They invited the community as well as general public to the meeting, where the mission, demands, SKA’s back ground were discussed and people’s views were taken.
"Gujarat farmers fight against climate change: Adopt technoloxxgy to conserve resources and maximize benefits" : News roundup (15-21 October 2010)
Posted on 22 Oct, 2010 11:25 AMClimate Change
Global Summit on South Asia Water, ORF, New Delhi
Posted on 20 Oct, 2010 02:24 PM
Organizers:
- Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
- Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS)
Venue: Hotel Ramada Plaza, Delhi
Description:
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) was started in the early nineties during the troubled period of India's transition from a protected economy to a new engagement with the international economic order. ORF was established on 5th September 1990 as a private, not for profit, 'think tank' to influence public policy formulation.
Kisan Swaraj Yatra - A massive outreach effort interacting with farmers and urban citizens about the agricultural crisis and the way out
Posted on 15 Oct, 2010 12:41 PM
The Kisan Swaraj Yatra has been initiated by the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA). This is a loose alliance of scores of groups across the country, drawn from more than 20 states. The network consists of farmers’ organizations, consumer groups, women’s organizations, environmental organizations, organic farmers’ cooperatives, individual scientists, doctors, health activists and others.
A story telling and discussion on rivers, peoples and dams, Ants Crafting Traditions, Bangalore
Posted on 14 Oct, 2010 03:39 PM
Orgnizer: The Ants Crafting Traditions
PFI Foundation is organising an International Conference WATERCON 2011, on Community based Water Resource Management in Northeast, January 28-30,2011 in Assam
Posted on 11 Oct, 2010 04:28 PM
Organizer: PFI Foundation
Venue: Guwahati, Assam
7th International Conference on ‘Reaching Out to People: Achieving Millennium Development Goals through Innovative Public Service Delivery', NAPSIPAG, Trivandrum
Posted on 11 Oct, 2010 11:59 AMInnovations in public service delivery systems to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the year 2015
