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
Environment
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Call to develop state's coastal shelter belts
The need for the development of coastal shelter belts plantations has been reiterated in the deliberations of a 'workshop on Strategy and Approach for Coastal shelter belts development in the Western
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Dindigul tanners move HC
Leather tanners in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu have moved the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Tamil Nadu Government to pay the compensation, which was ordered by the Loss of Ecology
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Students hunt for plastic bags
In a rare gesture aimed at discouraging use of recycled plastic bags, hundreds of school children joined hands and collected more than 5,000 kg of plastic bags of less than 20 micron for destroying
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Air pollution plagues winter olympics site
The host site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, is in the midst of an air inversion that traps air pollution in the region's valleys. The Sierra Club called on Utah drivers to take transit
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Farmland vanishes under floods
There could be a further threat of floods in England and Wales, the environment agency warned as 33 alerts and 105 flood watches remained in place at 6pm. Although the worst of the weather has passed
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Salt Lake's "Green Games" image comes under attack
Salt Lake City won the right to stage the Winter Olympics partly because of the pristine beauty of the Rocky Mountains and organisers say the Games will provide an environmental showcase to the
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Bush would cut EPA budget to $7.7 bln in 2003
The Bush administration proposed reducing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) budget by about 4 percent to $7.7 billion in fiscal 2003, but pledged no cuts in enforcement of controversial
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Royals back Antarctic restoration project
A unique project to restore the frozen huts of some of Antarctica's earliest explorers is about to get under way with royal backing. Britain's Princess Anne arrived in New Zealand and files to the
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Soft loan for affluent treatment plants
The financial institutions should provide soft loan to industrial units for setting up affluent treatment plants in industrial areas for complying with environment protection norms, the chairman of
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Sulabh, WHO to start health, sanitation drive
World Health Organisation along with Sulabh international social service organisation has launched a drive for rural sanitation and sustainable development campaign in five states of the country.