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
Health facilities, adequate compensation must be provided Taking a serious note of the increasing silicosis-related deaths in the country, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has recommended that silicosis be made a notifiable disease. Once notified, all government and private health facilities will have to report confirmed as well as suspected silicosis cases to the government.
The Nuremberg Code, set up to protect the human subjects of research, is being routinely ignored, warns Harriet A. Washington.
The successfully concluded $8.48-billion Cairn-Vedanta deal has come “under cloud” following instances of serious human rights violations, default of payment, environmental damage in its mining and metal
Bangladesh - An overview of key environmental issues.
‘Governments snatching lands without consent of gram sabhas' Noted social activist Medha Patkar has alleged that indiscriminate acquisition of farm and forest lands by the governments in the name of
Refusing to be deterred by the biting cold, the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) and Jobat dam-affected adivasi oustees successfully completed three full weeks (21 days) of their indefinite action at the
The mainstream paradigm of understanding grass-root environmentalism in India as “environmentalism of the poor” might be challenged by an alternative prototype forest movement in the Bengal Dooars prior
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called for reports, within six weeks, from the Chief Secretaries of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala on reports that a fresh wave of suicide by farmers
Over the years, research on women in the fisheries moved from a framework of political economy to a framework of political ecology. This meant that analyses shifted away from labour, production relations
Has the Indian state decided that elimination of the leadership is the way to respond to the Maoists? (Editorial)