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Unequal access to clean water threatens international peace
Mar 22, 2013
Unequal access to clean water still remains one of the world’s biggest abuses of human rights and challenges to development – creating millions of avoidable illnesses and deaths every year.
Marchers urge progress on land reform talks
Oct 17, 2012
Following on the heels of a successful march, organisers of India's land rights' protest insist the reform process must move forward as talks with the government get underway.
Indians march for land rights
Oct 08, 2012
The 'Jan Satyagraha,' the world's largest march for land justice, aims to help lift 400 million Indians out of poverty.
Closing the gender gap
Oct 02, 2012
A new series of gender integration workshops shed light on how women are often shortchanged in development – and take aim to close the gender gap at each level in the value chain of production.
Women farmers take on climate change
Sep 18, 2012
A new study, “Women Farmers Adopting to Climate Change,” highlights how the phenomenon affects men and women differently – and can exacerbate already existing gender inequalities.
Ethnic violence rocks India’s Assam
Aug 06, 2012
ACT Alliance India is mounting a humanitarian response to the most recent spate of inter-ethnic violence between the Bodo tribe and Bengali-speaking Muslims of the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
Floods ravage Assam state in India
Jul 11, 2012
Incessant rains have lashed many parts of the state of Assam causing an alarming rise in the water level of the Brahmaputra River. ACT members have carried out needs assessments and plan to assist affected populations.
ACT aids victims of cyclone in south India
Jan 23, 2012
Under the ACT banner, two members are helping families affected by Cyclone Thane
Australians help youth in Delhi's slums
Jan 11, 2012
An innovate partnership aims to short circuit the cycle of poverty for young people in India
Breaking ground: ACT staffer steps up to top Indian body
Aug 10, 2011
An Adivasi activist enters the corridors of power intent on change for India’s poorest
Profile of a humanitarian worker: Dr Shailendra Awale
Aug 18, 2010
Skills for humanitarian work can be developed but the heart must be in the right place, says an Indian doctor.
India hit by cyclone
May 19, 2010
ACT is monitoring the situation in eastern India in the wake of a cyclone.
Tornado in India
Apr 19, 2010
Devastating tornado in Bihar and Bengal destroys thousands of homes and kills more than 130
India: from bust to boom
Mar 10, 2010
A loan saved a young Indian man taking his life in despair at his poverty.
India: protecting the coast and its people
Mar 08, 2010
The effects of the 2004 tsunami threaten the survival of south Indian people even more than the tsunami itself.
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ACT in India
Organisations with HQ in India
- Christian Agency for Rural Development (CARD)
- Church's Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA)
- Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT)
- Synodical Board of Social Services, Church of North India (SBSS-CNI)
- United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India (UELCI)
International organisations in India
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR)
- Christian Aid (CA)
- DanChurchAid (DCA)
- ECLOF International
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
- World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
Organisations funding work in India
- Act for Peace
- Anglican Overseas Aid-Australia
- Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS)
- Brot für Alle/Pain pour le Prochain (Bread for All) (BfA)
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Christian World Service (CWS)
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Church of Sweden (CoS)
- Diakonie Austria
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Finn Church Aid (FCA)
- Icelandic Church Aid (ICA)
- Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- Presbyterian World Service & Development (PWS&D)
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The (PWRDF)
- United Church of Canada (UCC)
- UnitingWorld Relief and Development Unit
About India
- Population: 1.2 billion (UN, 2009)
- Capital: New Delhi
- Most-populated city: Mumbai (Bombay)
- Area: 3.1 million sq km (1.2 million sq miles), excluding Indian-administered Kashmir (100,569 sq km/38,830 sq miles)
- Major languages: Hindi, English and at least 16 other official languages
- Major religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism
- Life expectancy: 62 years (men), 65 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Indian Rupee = 100 paise
- Main exports: Agricultural products, textile goods, gems and jewellery, software services and technology, engineering goods, chemicals, leather products
- GNI per capita: US $1070 (World Bank, 2008)