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 case study is part of the ODI HPG research programme on the role of the affected state in humanitarian action and aims to describe the essential elements of approach to disaster management as seen in its response to the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It also analyses policy trends in Disaster Management Act.
Almost 250 million people around the world are affected by climate-related disasters in a typical year. This report projects that, by 2015, this number could grow by 50 per cent to an average of more than 375 million people.
In the last week of January, a large crowd gathered at a former torture centre in the Chile
Asbestos free schools: Paving the way for a complete ban on asbestos and its products, Kerala Human Rights Commission said
Childhood lost? Cuttack, March 4: The Orissa State Human Rights Commission (OSHRC) has ordered an administrative inquiry into how hundreds of children in the Satavaya area of Kendrapada district were denied academic opportunities.
To facilitate linkages between the voices of the masses and the future decision makers, South Asian Peoples' Initiatives (SAPI) and Indian Social Institute, New Delhi jointly organized a national workshop in Delhi, on People's Manifesto 2009 (PM 2009). Many from grassroots organizations, representatives of people's movements, NGOs, civil and democratic groups,
"Right to Water and Sanitation", is a briefing paper (draft)of WaterAid India, based on secondary research. It reviews the current status of drinking water and sanitation in India and concludes that viewing the issue of water and sanitation as a fundamental human right, is necessary to ensure the provision of these basic facilities of the majority of the population in the country.
The mainstream media sees 2008 as a year of wars, terror strikes, financial meltdown. There is lip service to incidents of human rights violations. But 2008 was also a year of struggle. It was another year when common men and women registered their protest against untrammelled industrialization. This little diary by the Delhi-based ngo, Kriti, documents their struggle. There is an account
Human development is the combination of people
Calls civilian militia