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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Micro-hydro plant washed away
Electricity supply to six village Development Committees of Tehrathum district (Nepal) has been disrupted indefinitely after a heavy flood in Khorung Khola washed away the powerhouse and intake of a
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Severe sea erosion at West Kochi
Sea erosion rose to alarming levels at West Kochi. Four houses were damaged by the violent sea waves that lashed into the shore. Nearly three hundred houses have been immersed in water. West Kochi
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Establishing a flood information network
Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, and Pakistan all under the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is annually affected by to floods. But countries in this region suffer from inadequate warning
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Eateries to streamline sanitation
Eateries in Kochi city will have to streamline its sanitation activities soon as the District Food Inspector (DFI) has made health cards mandatory for its employees handling food stuffs, like cooks
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Corporation's desilting drive helps city tide over waterlogging
The steps taken by the Corporation to check waterlogging problems within the city limits and West Kochi have paid off to a great extent owing to pre-monsoon canal desiltation and garbage disposal
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Support for micro-environmental action plans
The United Nations development programme (UNDP) is providing Bhutan a grant of US $167000 over a period of three years (2003-2005) to develop the capacity of GYTs for the implementation of the
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State to accelerate quake rehab process in Kutch
The Gujarat state government has directed the roads and buildings department to shift personnel and machinery from its Saurashtra division to Kutch to speed up the ongoing rehabilitation activities
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Greens decry saffron trust's building
Environmentalists have criticised the authorities for allowing a five-storey building to be built at the Savarkar Smarak complex, which falls within the restricted development coastal regulation zone
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Mela just days old, filth sky-high
The 13-day-long Kumbh festivities have just begun but the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has already begun to reel under the impact of hosting the religious show. With the volume of garbage going
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5 dead in flash floods in Baijnath sub-division
At least five people, including four women, are feared to have been washed away in flash floods caused by a cloudburst in the Lalooni Nallah in Lalooni village, about 65 km from here in the Baijnath