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• The state of the world’s human rights 2024

  This report documents human rights concerns during 2023 in 155 countries, connecting issues at global and regional levels and looking forward to the implications for the future. States and armed groups

  • 24/04/2024

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• Airport off Osaka is sinking into Bay

  Situated atop an artificial island in the bay off Osaka, Japan's second largest city, the Kansai International Airport was built on reclaimed land. But seven years after its debut, Kansai

  • 30/07/2001

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
  • • Environment

• Hudson debate goes on despite E.P.A. decision

  The string of fading mill and farm towns along Northumberland stretch of the Hudson some 30 miles north of Albany is the area most affected by the Environmental Protection Agency's decision,

  • 02/12/2000

  • • Environment

• GE might get bill for Hudson River cleanup

  General Electric, put on notice this week that it'll probably have to pay $500 million to clean up the Hudson River, may also have to pay millions of dollars for damage its toxins caused to fish,

  • 01/12/2000

  • • Environment

• Contentious details await E.P.A. cleanup plan for Hudson

  The decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christie Whitman, to proceed with an ambitious, expensive and complicated pollution cleanup plan for the Hudson River appears

  • 02/12/2000

  • • Environment

• Tug of war ensues over tidal flats

  A movements is growing to conserve tidal flats across Japan against a backdrop of rising international awareness of protecting wetlands and the environment. large areas of tidal flats have been lost

  • 23/07/2001

  • • Environment

• Development plans meet fierce resistance

  Calls for conserving tidal flats are spreading nationwide(Japan) as their ecosystems come under increasing danger from human activity. There are 17 tidal-flat areas at risk, eight of which are

  • 23/07/2001

  • • Environment

• Land identified for dumping industrial waste

  The Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPC) has identified 32-acres rocky land in the Arvallis along Faridabad-Gurgaon Road, or dumping the "hazardous waste" of the "highly polluting" industries

  • 02/12/2000

  • • Environment

• RPL project hangs fire amid demand, eco issues

  The inordinate delay by Reliance Power Limited in setting up its 500 mw pet coke power project at Jamnagar is fast snowballing into a major controversy for the Group, which is in the eye of a storm

  • 02/12/2000

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Centre files plaint with CJM on River Princess

  Central Ministry of Environment and Forests has filed a complaint in the form of a petition in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Panjim, against ms Salgaocar Mining Industries Limited and

  • 24/07/2001

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Typhoon Toraji toll now 72

  Taiwan rescuers searched for a third day on Wednesday for over 100 people swept away by flash floods or buried under mud and rock in one of the island's deadliest storms, but hopes of finding

  • 02/12/2000

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment