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
This 2013 edition of the Right to food and nutrition watch released on 8 Oct 2013, explores global issues surrounding the right to food and nutrition and includes a includes a detailed analysis of the recent debates on India's national food security bill.
<p>Construction of a mega-steel plant in Odisha in Eastern India should be halted immediately, United Nations independent human rights experts have urged, citing serious human rights concerns. The project
This analytical brief published by United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment & Health offers a working definition of water security developed from contributions made by the broad range of organizations, agencies, programmes and institutions that form UN-Water.
Even as the Orissa government acquired 2,700 acres of land for phase I of Posco’s proposed steel plant near Paradip on July 4, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) has raised a few questions. In a letter, routed through the Ministry of Home Affairs, to the Orissa chief secretary last week, it has asked India if a human rights impact assessment was carried out on the potential effects of the project on the local people.
Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) on Thursday made a raft of recommendations on conservation of lakes, particularly Upper Lake in the state capital and asked the government to send its compliance
Odisha government continued the final phase of land acquisition for proposed steel plant POSCO in Jagatsinghpur district on Wednesday despite strong protest from the locals. The labourers engaged by the district administration went on demolishing the betel vines to acquire land as armed policemen beat up a few farmers who came out to protect their vineyards to save their source of livelihood.
Addressing climate change from social justice and human rights perspectives is a global challenge, and international negotiations dealing with climate change need to incorporate such concerns. This paper
This report by the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) documents the human rights abuses being carried out to facilitate establishment of the POSCO project at Orissa and the associated illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in the state. It calls for a suspension of the POSCO-India project and a halt to the human rights abuses.
The Bangladesh tragedy exposes the callousness of the garment business. (Editorial)
A report submitted to the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) by the Drugs and Food Control Organisation (DFCO), a state government agency, has revealed that 438 medicines, including inject-able drugs have been found ‘not of standard quality’ (NSQ) after analysis over the past seven years. These samples were lifted randomly by officials of the organisation from government-run hospitals and chemist shops. The SHRC is hearing a complaint by a civil society group, Jammu and Kashmir People’s Forum, filed in the wake of the spurious drugs scam and had asked for a factual report from the authorities concerned.