VERSIONS: روسيا اليوم NOTICIAS FREEVIDEO ИНОТВ RTД RSS
breakingnews
Go to main page   News   Indian tribe finds survival through boxing   Comments  
MORE ON THE STORY
29.08.2009, 11:36 2 comments

No economic crisis for India?

After years of tremendous growth, India’s economy is facing a slowdown. Despite that, it is still growing at the second fastest rate in the world, after China.

21.08.2009, 14:21

Indian farmers face hunger due to drought

India's monsoon rains have failed to arrive and farmers in the worse hit regions say there is little hope that enough crops can be grown this year to stave off food shortages.

17.08.2009, 10:56

Saving Indian men – from their wives

Indian men are claiming laws that shield women from domestic violence have given the fairer sex too much freedom of hand. Husbands who say they’re being harassed by their wives are campaigning for legal protection.

27.04.2009, 12:04 1 comment

Helping Delhi's 'untouchable' child beggars

Hardly anyone is willing to help Indian child beggars, or wants to touch them, but a group of volunteers goes into the streets of Delhi to make these children feel wanted.

06.06.2009, 00:37 15 comments

China to execute more African drug dealers

Africans are learning the hard way that in China the consequences for drug smuggling are more grave than a stained criminal record or a long sentence behind bars. Drug smugglers face a life penalty, but not in prison.

A child with Down's syndrome (photo by Alena Ozerova) 08.02.2010, 15:29 25 comments

Journalist calls for euthanasia of disabled newborns

The article titled “Finish it off so it doesn’t suffer,” which calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has caused public outrage in Russia and has led to fierce debates in the blogging community.

Some of these children to be deported from Israel 27.08.2010, 14:11 11 comments

Israeli government to deport 400 children

The situation with 400 immigrant workers’ children to be deported from Israel by the government to preserve what they call “the Jewish character of the state” has many people questioning what it means to be Israeli.

Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi protest (AFP Photo) 21.06.2009, 10:24 6 comments

NYC speaks out on Iran’s protests

Barack Obama has urged Iran to end the violence against protesters. The Iranian government in turn says it faces not demonstrations, but riots.

Zarmina, sentenced for a crime she had not committed, Badam Bagh Central Prison for Women Offenders, Kabul (Photo by Lizette Potgieter) 05.10.2009, 11:00 4 comments

Burkas behind bars: Afghan women in prison

Most Afghan women are illiterate, face poverty, have limited access to healthcare, and subjected to continued and widespread violence. As if this is not enough, they are often arbitrarily imprisoned for “moral crimes”.

Indian tribe finds survival through boxing

Published: 02 September, 2009, 13:56


Training at a boxing school in Chalkari

In India, extreme poverty means many children have little chance of climbing the social ladder, but in one small village, tribal boys and girls have come to see boxing as a ticket to a better life.

 
0 COMMENTS
POST COMMENT

By posting your comment, you agree to abide by our posting rules


CAPTCHA image