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
Ecuadorean Indians this week filed a billion dollar lawsuit demanding thatChevronTexaco clean-up Amazon jungle after allegedly dumping toxins that destroyed rivers and made people sick. Lawyers for
Although the entire Northeast is very much within the seismic belt, the Architects Act, 1972 (a Central Government Act) has not been implemented yet in the region, thereby leaving a big question mark
South Africa launches a programme this week to exterminate its "national flower" - the millions of used plastic bags that litter the landscape. Beginning, plastic shopping bags used in the country
With the West Bengal Pollution Control Board passing an order on May 6 to ban "the entry, use, sale and processing of the plastic carry bags" at ten landmark "heritage and tourist spots" of the state
Clean up or close down. The message, from the West Bengal Pollution Control Board to hospitals reluctant to treat their bio-medical waste, is clear. This ultimatum will be served on leading hospitals
Political conditions for advancing negotiations on the new round of global trade liberalization are much less favourable than they were 18 sues are pilling up. On the present trajectory, the meeting
In an effort to improve garbage clearance in Bangalore City, the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike would be introducing a new system of garbage collection from May 19. The new system will have a mechanism
It could well turn out to be a drought crisis that is the worst in a century for this desert state. The Rajasthan state government is trying to do its bit, but it would appear that in the matter of
Faced with sharp criticism over the role of her ministry in handling flood control works in Assam, Union Minister of State for Water Resources (MoWR), Bijoya Chakra-varty has said that a flood
Due to heavy rains, the local rivers of Assam state have receive plenty of water and a flood-like situation has arisen in the State. The erosion at Gutung by the river Gelabil has turned serious.