World Bank Rings Alarm On Depleting Groundwater

With the growing number of aquifers (underjordiske vandreserver) in India reaching unsustainable levels of exploitation, about 60 percent of them will be in a critical condition within 20 years if the current trend continues.

The upper house of India's parliament has approved a bill to reserve a third of all seats in the national parliament and state legislatures for women, BBC online reports Tuesday.

GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" - Poor monsoons linked by some experts to the El Niño in 2009 affected rice yields

JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN): Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast for some of them, which has prompted concern whether the price of the grain could go up later in 2010.

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In Focus: Powerful men who like the word "no"

In this week’s In Focus blog, Anya Palm, Danish free lance journalist living in Thailand and specializing in human rights issues, writes about the unknown consequences of powerful authoritarian governments saying no to anything they fear or do not understand.

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Det internationale netværk for verdens kasteløse (IDSN) fejrer 10 års jubilæum på et tidspunkt, da kampen mod kastediskrimination er ved at vinde øget international opmærksom-hed - senest har ærkebiskop Desmond Tutu udtrykt sin støtte. Der er dog lang vej igen, før et af verdens mest omfattende menneskerets-problemer, der berører 260 millioner mennesker, er udryddet.