Climate policy active NGOs and movements are fragmented and characterized by heterogeneous interests. Cleavages exist in important issues and the choice of strategies. A discussion of complementary strategies and division of labor is an urgent need.

Modernity predicted that religion would retreat into a private zone of worship and practice. However, recent decades have seen religion become increasingly salient on the political stage worldwide. This politicized religion impinges on women’s rights in problematic ways.

India is close to conclude an ambitious Free Trade Agreement" (FTA) with the European Union (EU). On April 11-12, 2011, HBF and partners organised an expert consultation in New Delhi to gauge the perception of the FTA and its potential to threaten the right to food in India.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster has shaken the global nuclear industry. But in many ways, India remains an exception to this trend. While the public is deeply upset, India's government, and the Department of Atomic Energy in particular, remain largely complacent.

Policy Brief Paper assesses environmental impacts of solar power generation that cannot be ignored and infact be factored in solar projects to make JNNSM socially equitable and environmentally sustainable.

Fatwa is basically an Islamic legal opinion which has its roots in the Islamic history. However, in the modern time, starting from the Imam Khomeini’s Fatwa against Salman Rushdie, this term often creates chaos in the society.

ECO is a daily insiders look at what is happening in the negotiations. And perhaps more importantly, what should happen at the negotiations from CAN’s perspective. ECO is published every day of the negotiations, and has been done so since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972.

New Report from Heinrich Boll Foundation in collaboration with Focus on the Global South and Intercultural Resources. Based on field work in the southern Indian state of Kerala, this paper explores the dynamics within traditional small scale fisheries in the context of the controversial negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and India. 

The Obama visit coincides with a critical stage of America's longest war in Afghanistan. This will occupy much of the behind-the-scenes activity, which is the core of each other's national security concern, notes Shanthie Mariet D'Souza.

New Delhi: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has made judicial history by deciding a long pending legal dispute over a piece of property in Ayodhya on the basis of an unverified and unsubstantiated reference to the “faith and belief of Hindus.”

India is facing the ongoing deterioration of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, especially the repeated outbreaks of violence between the civil population and the security forces. Criticising both the Indian and Pakistani governments’ performances, Mr Sachar gives a number of suggestions how to start a new direction in conflict resolution.

The crucial global climate policy issue today is the current unequal occupation of carbon space with the developed nations having occupied far more than their fair share of carbon space. Without these nations sharply reducing their emissions, it is evident that other nations cannot get their fair share. From the carbon space perspective, it is also clear that no nation can lay claim to more than its fair share, and that the burden of mitigation will fall progressively on all nations as they approach their fair share of global carbon space.

The need for renewable energy resources is real and pressing today simply because our current dependence on conventional petro -based fuels and energy sources cannot be sustained. Electrification Scheme over the past two decades there remains a lot of work that needs to be done. The numbers of villages which still don’t have access to electricity continue to be very high and in a number of these village the grid reaching them may still be some years away.

Indien will sich bei den Klimaverhandlungen nicht von den Industriestaaten unter Druck setzen lassen Klimaschutz ist in Indien Chefsache. Doch auf rechtlich verbindliche Ziele will sich das Land nicht festlegen lassen. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass es keine politischen Aktivitäten gibt. Ob die in Kopenhagen eine Rolle spielen werden, muss sich allerdings noch herausstellen. Derweil warten 700 Millionen InderInnen auf Hilfe bei Anpassungsmaßnahmen an den Klimawandel.

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The Q & A with Prof. Anders Levermann clarifies the disturbances in Indian monsoon phenomenon due to anthropogenic activities causing abrupt transition. Since the economy of the country is still agrarian in nature, it adversely affects the livelihoods of poor and marginal.

This program, launched by the Delhi Policy Group in 2009 with the support of the Heinrich Boll Stiftung, aims to promote the development of youth and think tanks as stakeholders in peace-building policy and its implementation in Afghanistan, through developing regional cooperation and exchange between Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It conducts three types of activities:

It is a Report from a one-month training programme cum field trip from 10 December 2009 to 10 January 2010, under which a batch of students from University of Madurai and University of Mumbai were sensitized to the concepts of Peace and Communal Harmony. The participants were given a theoretical training at the Centre through lectures on the subjects of Peace and Communal Harmony, Religious tolerance, Fundamental Rights of Citizens and Human Rights etc., for a period of 15 days. Following the theoretical sessions, they were taken on a field visit to Ahmedabad for 15 days to enable them meet the families of the victims of the communal violence that rocked Gujarat in February-May 2002 and study the status of rehabilitation, their lives in the rehabilitation camps/colonies and their problems.

International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN):IGTN is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation in the work of developing more just and democratic policy from a critical feminist perspective; currently organized in seven regions. http://www.igtn.org/

The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID): International membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Aims to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere by facilitating ongoing debates on fundamental and provocative issues as well as by building the individual and organizational capacities of those working for women's empowerment and social justice. Website: http://www.awid.org

Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era (DAWN): DAWN is a network of feminist scholars, researchers and activists from the economic South working for economic and gender justice and sustainable and democratic development. DAWN provides a forum for feminist research, analyses and advocacy on global issues (economic, social and political) affecting the livelihoods, living standards, rights and development prospects of women, especially poor and marginalized women, in regions of the South. DAWN works internationally and regionally in Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific in collaboration with other global NGOs and networks. Website: http://www.dawnnet.org/

Institute for Development Studies (IDS) : IDS http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids is a leading global organization for research, teaching and communications on international development. Run by BRIDGE http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/  team is Siyanda an on-line database of gender and development materials from around the world. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources http://www.siyanda.org/

Hemisferic Social Alliance (HSC): Women activists have been engaged in the HSA since its inception. The Committee was created in order to share activities, identify new opportunities for joint analyses and provide a presence in the key meetings related to American continent. These women have a deeply critical of the negative impacts that trade and investment policies are having on women in the region and are striving for change. Website: http://www.asc-hsa.org

The concept of “automobility” originating from the Greek term “auto” for self puts emphasis on the self-determined, individualistic mode of transportation characteristic to modern society. This concept is increasingly spreading among the world, entering on fast track into the upcoming newly industrialized countries.

At the end of August India’s new Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14 entered into force. The new Foreign Trade Policy lays out ambitious objectives in times of the challenging worldwide economic, food, fuel and climate crises. Commerce Minister Sharma states “We would like to achieve an annual export growth of 15% over 2010-11 with an annual export target of $200 billion by March 2011.