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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Sunshine brings relief after bitter cold claims at least 910 lives in South Asia
Sunshine bathed parts of Bangladesh and India after bitter three-week cold spell claimed at least 910 lives in South Asia, where millions of people live without heat, electricity and warm
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Govt, private sector urged to address WTO challenges
The agriculture system, which is mainstay of our economy needs to be strengthened to meet the WTO challenges coming ahead. Dr Waqar Malik, Member In charge Social Science Division PARC,(Pakistan)
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Conserving Indian heritage
The Chennai based CPR Environmental Education Centre recently launched www.ecoheritage.crreec.org, a Website devoted to ecological heritage under the Environmental Management Capacity Building
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Easing lives
The earthquake in Gujarat brought with it ruin. With typical fortitude, most of the affected people went about rebuilding their lives, but there were many who were left rudderless. CARE TODAY came up
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Unique garbage disposal for Vasant Kunj residents
Residents of Vasant Kunj, South Delhi, have shown how to tackle garbage menace in the city. Residents of the area have found a unique way to tackle their garbage disposal - using kitchen and garden
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Food drive
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has intesified it's drive of challaning food establishments for not keeping green receptacles to avoid littering. Said Mr Ram Bhaj, MLA and NDMC
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President to open Delhi summit
The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, will inaugurate the third annual session of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit being organised from February 6 to 9 by The Energy and Resource Institute,
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Minor earthquake in Andamans
An earthquake of slight intensity rocked the Andaman Islands region around midnight, the Met Department said in a release on Sunday. The earthquake, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, occurred at
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Hunger scams
By announcing the revival of the State Government's welfare programme for the endemically poverty-stricken region of Koraput, Bolangir and Kalahandi (KBK) in western Orissa, the Biju Janata Dal
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Law Commission to study laws on ecology
The 16th Law Commission of India, headed by Mr Justice M. Jagannadha Rao, has taken up the study of environmental laws intended to set up environmental courts in the country. The study on the subject