http://us.oneworld.net/article/country/356/ en_US India http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160543/1/ Lack of jobs and unpaid debts have led to a spate of suicides among traditional goldsmiths in southern India. The mechanised jewellery making industry has ruined practitioners of this traditional craft, leading to hundreds of thousands living in penury. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160540/1/ The global food price rise is leading to further malnourishment among Indian children, UNICEF warns, as families reduce the number of meals in a day. India already has the worst indicators of child malnutrition in South Asia, along with 40% of the world’s underweight newborns. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83700 Hundreds of members of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe held a protest in India yesterday against plans by a British company, Vedanta, to mine their sacred mountain. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/160448/1/ http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160427/1/ Members of Indian anti-poverty network WNTA met the HRD minister in the capital to present a memorandum urging the government to table the Right to Education bill in the current parliament session. WNTA campaigns to hold the government accountable to its commitments to end poverty, social exclusion and discrimination. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83650 A security think tank updates readers on recent statements made by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama regarding Iraq, Iran, nuclear weapons and proliferation, India, and North Korea. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160308/1/ Environmental activist Sunita Narain offers a glimpse of what the future holds for coastal towns and villages as sea waters rise at a high rate. Climate change, rising salinity in waters and intense winds are eroding and depressing land at the same time in the Sunderbans, leaving people with no ways to survival. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160274/1/ Millions of volunteers will visit every household in the country in the coming years to gather information on changing demographics, in a census that will reveal how economic growth has affected its people. India’s population is expected to climb to 1.19 billion in 2011 from 1.13 billion in 2008, say officials. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83597 A new campaign has been launched targeting British company Vedanta over its plans to mine a sacred mountain in India. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160143/1/ The answer to growing traffic and pollution in the Indian capital lies in an effective and massive public transport system, says the Centre for Science and Environment. The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, recently implemented in south Delhi, provides the option for an economically sound and better bus system. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83544 Asian governments' attempts to manage skyrocketing food prices by restricting rice exports is actually aggravating food shortages in the region, says Peter Timmer in this interview. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160108/1/ Even as UNESCO’s latest report pans India for lagging behind in the race for achieving education for all by 2015, experts gathered in the capital weigh up the nationally sponsored Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Exclusion and discrimination remain core challenges as millions of children remain outside its fold, is the verdict. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83542 Dr. Binayak Sen -- imprisoned without trial for over a year on terrorism charges -- is being honored for his dedication to health and human rights in poor and tribal communities in his native India. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160011/1/ Centre for Science and Environment releases a two year study on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as it becomes pan-Indian from April 1. NREGA can regenerate the village economy through productive assets on water conservation and afforestation and just wages for the people, says CSE. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159918/1/ The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world. From: Center for Reproductive Rights