Religious Minorities
Top Stories
- Minorities must have first claim on resources: PM
"Devise plans for them to share fruits of development" said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
New avenues for Muslim womenMaharashra State Minority Commission (MSMC) plans to launch new scheme, whereby it would empower Muslim women and make them economically independent. More..Buddhists upset over Religion Act amendment
When it comes to enrolment in schools, Muslims trail even SC/STs: Sachar panel
In Focus: Interfaith highlights
This section highlights the importants of interfaith for human development. The page devotes for major initative around the globe and espeically in South Asia to work for peace religous hormony, cooperation and development.
* Peace among religions is the key to world peace
* Shaukat for addressing root causes of terrorism
Features
Muslims in India: trapped in a blind alley, Syeda Hameed
Muslims of Malegaon, a forgotten people of a forgotten town in Maharashtra. A town of seven lakh people, 75 per cent of them Muslim, which gained recognition in September because of the bomb blasts More...
* My being a Muslim overshadowed my identity as an Indian, Shah Alam Khan
Knowledge for Advocacy
Crisis of Minority Rights in South AsiaThe challenge of pluralism in South Asia is enormous and so too is the gap between the fundamental rights promised in various state constitutions and the banality of discrimination, violence, and inequality that is the everyday experience of people belonging to minority
* Data Source for Religious and Caste Groups in India, S. Venkatesan While the socio-economic conditions have been varying for different religious and for different caste groups, it is not as if they constitute a homogenous socio-economic entity: there are a very large number of castes within these broad groups, and it apprears that there is a considerable amount of variation in the socio-economic conditions across the various castes and religious groups. There are large amount of secondary data available on them by now would provide a useful and essential backdrop. That such secondary information available is indeed vast is clear from the following statements given below which provide a larger account of the information available with government agencies, viz. the Census, NSSO and NFHS. More
< Peace and Conflict 2005: A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy,Monty G. Marshall et.al
Peace and Conflict 2005 is the third edition in the Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) Program's biennial global report series. This full-color, 100-page global report details major trends in armed conflict, self-determination move ments, and democracy through the contemporary era, 1946-2004, and provides a "conflict ledger" assessing each country's "peace-building capacity" in early 2005. The 2005 edition of the report complements the earlier editions by updating the trends and issues raised in the earlier reports, updating its descriptions of the status of major armed conflicts and self-determination movements, and expanding its analysis to include four new issues: trends in ethnic discrimination, 1950-2003; political instability in Africa (including an Africa Instability Ledger); genocides and politicides since 1955; and the social roots of, and general trends, in global terrorism. More...
Useful links
| Global PeaceWorks peace among religions is the key to world peace |
| The Interspirit Foundation Share your Peace Vision with the United Religions Initiative's (URI) Visions for Peace Survey |
| Learn more about the religions of India at ReligionsofIndia.org |
| Interfaith Organizations |