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
<p>Darjeeling tea makes its mark world over, but back home it brews suspicion between planters and workers finds Down To Earth.</p>
<p>Order of the Supreme Court dated 13/05/2011 in W.P (C) No. 213 of 2011 Democratic Youth Federation of India Versus Union of India in the matter of endosulfan use.</p>
<p>Plans to conserve the world’s tropical forests must respect the rights of indigenous peoples. (Editorial)<br /> </p>
Reacting to a report published in The Hindu, which told the story of illegal employment of children and their plight in the coal mines of Hazaribagh district, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to Jharkhand Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Singh seeking a report within four weeks on the issue.
<p>High prices and concerns about energy security in the oil and gas industry are driving expansion into ever more sensitive environments with greater technological, political and social risks. While brands such as BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are well known, some 70 per cent of oil and gas industry activities are typically contracted out to service providers and their subcontractors.
<p>What’s really in your cuppa? - A special investigation into the hidden costs of tea, milk and sugar.</p> <p>http://files.theecologist.org/Pdfs/Whats_in_your_cuppa.pdf<br /> </p>
<p>The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has opened for comment the Zero Draft of the "Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and Other Natural Resources." The Zero Draft addresses issues including: guiding objectives and principles of responsible tenure governance; policy, legal and organizational frameworks; legal recognition and allocatio
<p>Repsol YPF, a Spanish-Argentine company, has a contract to explore for oil in a<br /> remote part of the Peruvian Amazon known as Lot 39. This region, in northern Peru, is home to at least two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.<br /> Repsol currently claims there is not enough evidence to prove the existence of
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Based on evidence collected in four exemplar countries – Kenya, Bangladesh, Ghana and Vietnam – the overall aim of the study is to investigate the capacity of national legal frameworks to protect and mediate