Female foeticide in India.

In India, 130 aborted foetuses were discovered dumped recently in the eastern state of Orissa. While abortion is legal in the country upto 20 weeks of pregnancy, gender-based abortion is illegal. It's now clear that this practice is far from abolished, in fact it's flourishing in this fast developing economy.

Unreported world India - "the broken people" !!!

Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Siobhan Sinnerton travel through India exposing the horrific plight of the country's 170 million Dalits: literally "the broken people", and previously called "the untouchables"; who are at the bottom of India's caste system and are some of the most oppressed people on Earth. Economic growth has done little to improve the Dalits' lot; despite legislation, they still form 60 per cent of all those below the poverty line. Now, as Unreported World reports, Dalits are starting to fight for political power in an Indian civil rights movement. Why is no one talking about this we were all up in arms about shilpa shetty, the muslims got upset over a book and a cartoon and are always screaming about kashmir & palestine , the sikhs got upset over a play, but what about the plight of the dalits, no one has said anyting.

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Who are the Dalits?

Oppression. Slavery. Apartheid. Yesterday's vocabulary? Think again. Learn more about the Dalits of India and the Dalit Freedom Network that is working on their behalf.

Check www.dalitnetwork.org

I'm Dalit, how are you?

160 million people in India are born outside the four castes of the Varna system - the oldest surviving social hierarchy of the world.

They are called the "untouchables".

They themselves have chosen the name DALITS (broken people).

Infos: http://www.idsn.org - International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN)

Jankari - Right to Information Call Center in Bihar

Bihar govt. launched the first call center on RTI in Patna. People can take any kind of information from any dept. under state govt. by applying over the phone line.
This film is directed by Priyanka Tyagi & shaped by K.Neeraj.This film has got full media coverage on 29th Jan'06 when the CM Nitish Kumar viewed it with 4000 people around in Patna along with Arvind Kejriwal,the magassasay awardee that year. Later it was shown on various national & local TV channels.

This film became a subject of praise among the diplomats.Nitish Kumar also praised the making of film open heartedly.

However, the RTI Cell in Bihar is not working to its expectations. To read more about it please go through the following link:

http://rtibihar.blogspot.com/

Literacy India - An NGO in Gurgaon.

Literacy India is an NGO based in Gurgaon, Haryana working for the education and upliftment of poor children and women.

For more details please check: www.literacyindia.org

Yuva Unstoppable

Yuva Unstoppable is a movement that provides the youth in India a platform to help underprivileged children. Simple concept: Give 2 hours a week towards volunteering. In one year Yuva has over 600 volunteers in 6 cities and is helping over 3500 children.

For more details please check: http://www.yuvaunstoppable.org/

I-INDIA: An NGO in Jaipur

I-India is an NGO working for the rights of street children in Jaipur, India.

This organization works with street children in Jaipur providing them shelter, food, education etc.

The video covers their real intervention among children living on street.

For more details please check: http://www.i-indiaonline.com/

Unnati - Taking education where it is needed.

Unnati - An example of a grass roots level project started in a slum area in Gurgaon, Haryana in Jan 2006 by the volunteers from AID Gurgaon. To know more about this project please visit: http://h2o-india.blogspot.com

Fighting Corruption in India using RTI

This video outlines the efforts of Association for India's Development (AID) in fighting corruption in India using the Right to Information Act (RTI. More information is avaliable at rti.aidindia.org. To volunteer or for other questions, contact AID at info@aidindia.org

Dream India CNBC Coverage.

This is a clip of teaching underprivileged in Borivali, Mumbai by a group called DreamIndia2020, a volunteer based group run by software professionals.

For more details please check : http://dreamindia2020.org/