Full Coverage: Culture

30.05.2008 Aimed at legalising equal rights for women in Bangladesh, the National Women's Development Policy proposed by the government is facing stiff resistance from Islamic hardliners. The pro-woman policy is inviting the wrath of clerics for violating the Koran.

29.05.2008 Although polio is only endemic in Nigeria, India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, non-compliance with polio immunization -- due to fear and uncertainty springing from lack of awareness -- is half the battle for international health workers seeking to eradicate the disease.

28.05.2008 Abundance of information and knowledge requires making sense out of it, feels George Siemens, a well-known eLearning expert from University of Manitoba Learning Technologies Centre, Canada. According to him the entire process of teaching and learning should focus on catering to the unique needs of each country or region.

26.05.2008 The Journal of Community Informatics calls for submissions for its forthcoming special edition on Gender and Community Informatics. The issue will focus on the interplay between gender and information society by examining new technologies, issues of identity, social hierarchies, citizenship and politics of knowledge.

26.05.2008 The Journal of Community Informatics calls for submissions for its forthcoming special edition on Gender and Community Informatics. The issue will focus on the interplay between gender and information society by examining new technologies, issues of identity, social hierarchies, citizenship and politics of knowledge.

22.05.2008 In a 1990s interview, the Dalai Lama is emphatic about the centrality of his non-violent approach and is aware of the slow pace of progress in what he calls 'the freedom struggle.' But what would he do if the people of Tibet chose a different path to independence?

21.05.2008 'A Jihad for Love' -- made by a gay Muslim filmmaker -- follows 12 gay Muslim men and women of various nationalities to produce an intimate examination of homosexuality and Islam.

10.05.2008 The French Institute's annual celebration of cultural diversity, Mosaïques, is back, with another lively mix of world cinema, literature and music. This year’s festival is timed to overlap with the UNESCO World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.

07.05.2008 Durgabai Deshmukh Award winner Daud Sharifa Khanam from southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu provided Muslim women a platform to challenge the oppressive patriarchal system. For this, she has had to face the ire of Muslim clerics. She was hated, abused and threatened but she never gave up the fight.

06.05.2008 Traditional midwives or dais have been overlooked by India’s National Rural Health Mission that focuses solely on institutional delivery. In a country having the highest maternal mortality rate and collapsing rural health care, there is a need to integrate these women in public health programmes.

03.05.2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

03.05.2008 The hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Black Watch, comes to London for the first time, following a sell-out tour of Scotland, the US and Australasia.