Arid politics

Each year the world loses $42.3 billion because of desertification. But when its leaders meet to discuss the fast-spreading problem, all they can …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

ADB woos critical NGOs

Despite the Asian Development Bank setting up a social dimensions unit to liaise with NGOs and involve them in projects the bank funds, Asian …

Move to nationalise NGOs

The Planning Commission's efforts to network voluntary agencies has received a lot of flak from the non-government sector.

Same problem, differing approaches

The government is roping in NGOs in the fight against pollution whereas industry is trying cleaner manufacturing processes

Developing distress

The birth-pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon

The great and bloody organs bazaar

The recent regulatory organ transplant Act, supposed to be a fist in the kidneys of the huge illegal bodyparts trade, has turned out to be a …

All for the people

International organisations concentrating on the moral and material uplift of the underpriviledged

Money matters

As the first-ever assembly of the 161-member Global Environment Facility (GEF) draws near, many non-governmental organisations are left out in …

Grassroots NGOs by women for women

Book>> Grassroots ngos by Women for Women by Femida Handy, Meenaz Kassam, Suzanne Feeney, Bhagyashree Ranade

Puppeteer with no strings

Documentary>> Katputli by Sudheer Gupta Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust and Prasar Bharati 30 minutes

'I don't expect largescale policy initiatives in the environmental sector'

JONATHAN LASH heads the Washington-based World Resource Institute (WRI) and is the co-chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable …

Negotiations on biological resources inch forward

The conservation and sustainable management of biological resources was high on the international agenda in February 2004. Representatives of …

Bullock power

No more of waste

Greenpeace members and Indian NGOs demonstrate for a ban on import of wastes

Woody Warfare

World forestry talks end without a consensus on a global convention on forests

Durga's decibels

Hoarding the rain

Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra

Towards a global anti-poverty convention

AIDS crisis

Organising to check AIDS

Changing social attitudes and behaviour has helped in the control of AIDS.

To get in touch

Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins

Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed

Spreading the good word.

Organisations are trying to disseminate information on environment and development.

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