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
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
Federal regulators should reject any proposals that would exempt huge "factory farms" feeding thousands of animals at a time from air pollution rules, six environmental groups said. The groups wrote
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh recently released a book on the Bhopal gas disaster of December 3, 1984. The book titled Gas Tragedy: An Eyewitness has been authored by the Secretary for
The Environmental Protection Agency has been privately negotiating with large industrial livestock farms to offer them amnesty from the Clean Air Act and existing Superfund laws, people involved in
Extending access to clean, safe water and abundant energy will be the focus of work for the next two years for a high level United Nations commission now meeting at UN headquarters in New York.
Japan and Russia are at odds over a possible agreement related to swapping credits earned for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. According to negotiators from both countries, the two are trying to
Officials let schools out early for the summer in the Kurdish region where last week's earthquake collapsed a dormitory killing 83 children. The officials also raised the overall death toll to 176
A series of tornadoes and high winds pummelled the midwest, killing an estimated 28 people in three states as storms left a swath of destruction a quarter-mile wide in some places. In Missouri,
Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) is "better than ever," EPA Administrator Christie Whitman told attendees of the agency's Science Forum. "It is more relevant, more rigorous, more
Even as the West Bengal Government readies the first two modules of the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and the Calcutta Leather Complex it is concerned about the slowdown in the construction
A tropical storm tore through several villages in eastern Bangladesh, killing 19 people, levelling hundreds of flimsy huts and damaging