NEWS FROM CEDBOM january 2006
NEWS FROM CEDBOM: JANUARY 2006
NEW DOSSIERS
This month we are pleased to inform you about the four new monthly dossiers that we
have on:
Slums
Child Rights
Textile Industry
Tribal issues
These are collections of clippings done on a
monthly basis.
Other DPs are also available on Legal Rights, Habitat,
Disasters and Critical Concerns. For subscriptions and special offers,
please contact jacintha@doccentre.net.
CED & RDCs
CED, in association with Architecture and Development (A & D), Praxis & ISED is setting up RDCs, focusing on the rehabilitation and the long-term development needs of communities in South India affected by the tsunami.
We have launched a website www.rdc.net.in aiming at information dissemination among its partners, local organisations and activists.
FILM & BACKGROUNDER
The film NAMMA KADALKARAI, NAMMA URIMAI (Our Coast, Our Right) was screened in various parts of the Tsunami affected areas. We have edited the film and the new version includes the feedback of people and activists. This film is aimed to educate local communities, promote the right to information, people’s right to know, determine and participate in their own development particularly their re-development/rehabilitation.
NAMMA KADALKARAI, NAMMA URIMAI: This backgrounder, explains the Coastal Regulation Zone and the economics and politics of its implementation from the point of view of the Local Communities, is now available in Tamil and English.
For a copy please email nalini@doccentre.net
or visit http://www.doccentre.net/docsweb/RDC-Tsunami/crz-bg-eng.html
for English & http://www.doccentre.net/docsweb/RDC-Tsunami/crz-bg-tamil.pdf
for Tamil
DEVELOPMENT DIGEST
The latest issue of Development Digest (dd 12)
is in the press now. This issue looks at:
The Business of Hunger by
Devinder Sharma
Water! Water!! Everywhere!!! But for Everyone?
Bhakra Dam - A Different View, Siddharth Narrain reviews Shripad
Dharmadhikary's Unravelling Bhakra: Assessing the Temple of Resurgent
India
Managing Water A Vaidyanathan reviews Ramaswamy R Iyer's Water:
Perspectives, Issues, Concerns
Water Sector Reforms in Mexico: Lessons for India's New Water Policy by
Tushaar
Shah, Christopher Scott, Stephanie Buechler
Leapfrog Beyond 'Modern' Water Paradigm by Sunita
Narain
FILMS AT CED
City Farming - a
film on Urban Agriculture
Duration 16'47" - Produced by CED
City farming is an innovative
technology which deals with farming in urban areas and essentially on
terraces, balconies and even on the walls of civil
constructions. Dr.R T Doshi has perfected a method of growing
fruits and vegetables for domestic consumption, which involves
relatively low labour input, organic production methods and very high
yields.
For a copy, write to nalini@doccentre.net
Aftershocks :The
Rough Guide to Democracy
directed by Rakesh Sharma; 2004; Digital Video
format dvcam and VCD; 64 minutes; English subtitles).
This film traces the story of the Gujarat Mineral Development
Corporation (GMDC)
as it attempts to acquire the two villages of Julrai and Umarsar. Did GMDC succeed in
exploiting the
earthquake as a God-sent opportunity to hasten the acquisition? How did
the
obviously vulnerable quake-affected people of Julrai and Umarsar deal
with it?
What was the role of the state government machinery, entrusted with the
welfare
of its calamity affected people? How have the existing mines and the
power plant
affected the lives of the people living nearby?
Excerpts from the film can be seen online: http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/104757/1/
If you would like to purchase a copy please
contact jacintha@doccentre.net
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Diploma Course
in Dalit Studies
A new two year
diploma course in Dalit
Studies is being launched by Booshakthi Kendra, in Tumkur.
The course aims at providing a learning space for young Dalit women and
men for
a limited period of two years. It is the aim of the Course that such
young women
and men will transform themselves into effective instruments in the
hands of the
Dalit people for their holistic liberation.
For more information and to apply write to
jothiraj12@gmail.com
Deadline for Applications is 30 April 2006.
National Conference on Electoral Reforms
The Third National Conference on
Electoral Reforms to be held on February 11, 12 (Saturday and
Sunday)
in Patna
, jointly hosted by the Association for Democratic Reforms ADR) and
Lok
Samvad of Bihar.
The Main Objectives of the Third Conference
are to take the civil society agenda on Electoral Reforms further and
to go
beyond electoral reforms and set the agenda for political party reforms.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. Trilochan Sastry (trilochans@IIMB.ERNET.IN)
BOOKS,
REPORTS and FILMS
We have lots of new
books, reports and films
in the
Bombay library this month:
Books
- Opium City
- The Making of Early Victorian Bombay
by Farooqui, Amar
- An Agenda For
Cultural Action and other Essays by Panikkar, K N
- Handbook for
NGOs - An Encyclopedia for Non Government Organisations and Voluntary
Agencies Incorporating Project Proposal and Implementation by Nabhi Kumar
Jain
- The Deepening
Divide Inequality in the Information Society by Van Dijk, Jan A G M
- Operation
Karakoram by Nayar, Arvind
- Goals! How to
Get Everything Yow Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible by Tracy,
Brian
- Understanding
Gandhi by Dharampal
- Dimensions of
Curriculum Change by Rajput, J S
- Position of
Languages in School Curriculum in India by Chaturvedi, M G
and Mohale, B V
- Committees and
Commissions on Indian Education 1947-1977 - A Bibliography by Patra, A
N
Reports
- 10 Years of WTO
Horror Tales of Lives Bartered by Gonsalves, Colin and Desai, Mihir
- Building from
below by Sanchetana
- Sexual Assaults
- A Fact Finding Report by Peoples Union
for Democratic Rights
- Agriculture in
the WTO - Undelivered Promises and Agenda for Reform by Verma Samar
- Why the AFSPA
Must Go - A Fact-Finding Report by Committee for the Repeal of the
Armed Forces (Special) Power
- Health and
Healthcare in Maharashtra - A Status Report by Duggal, Ravi , Dilip, T R and Raymus, Prashant
- Closer to
Reality - Reporting Bhopal Twenty Years after the Gas Tragedy by We for Bhopal , A
Students' Group
- A Report -
Demolitions: Driving Urban Poor to the Edge - Impact Assessment Study
of Demolitions in Mumbai 2004-2005 by Committee for the Rights to
Housing
- Obsessive
Pursuit - The Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 2004 Reinforcing a
Draconian Law by Peoples Union for
Democratic Rights
- Managing A
Manmade Tropical Wetland by Gole Prakash
- Balancing Pains
and Gains - A Perspective Paper on Gender and Dams by Mehta, Lyla and
Srinivasan, Bina
- A Guide to
Rainwater Harvesting from Rooftops by Rainwater Club
- Supreme Court
Orders on the Right to food- A Tool for Action, October 2005 by
Secretariat of the Right to Food Campaign
- Employment
Guarantee Act - A Primer, October 2005 by Secretariat of the Right to
Food Campaign
- Midday Meals - A
Primer October 2005, by Secretariat of the Right to Food Campaign
Films
- Right to Food by
Right to Food Campaign
- Aftershocks: The
Rough Guide to Democracy by Rakesh Sharma
- Closer to
reality by We for Bhopal, students' Group
- Namma
Kadalkarai, Namma Urimai (Our Coast, Our Right), Tamil, produced by CED
- City farming,
produced by CED
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Critical Concerns
