The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach, which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to improve people
This paper starts out with a look at the status quo of public climate change finance Post-Copenhagen. It then proposes the use of existing core principles and tools of international environmental law and human rights as the fundamental conceptual guide and compass for charting policy responses to climate change which …
When environmental campaigners began tracking a hi-tech South Korean trawler off the coast of West Africa, they were looking for proof of illegal fishing of dwindling African stocks. What they uncovered was an altogether different kind of travesty: human degradation so extreme it echoed the slavery they thought had been …
The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is a powerful tool to put pressure on policymakers at the national and international level to take the human right to food and nutrition into account. The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch provides a platform for human rights experts, civil society activists, …
Why is the right to food important for the rural and urban poor? How does it help women and children? What are the obligations of States in relation to the right to food? These and other questions are answered in the Fact Sheet on
Kofi Annan People often ask me what I consider to be the highlight of my career with the United Nations. While there were many wonderful moments, hosting the largest collection of world leaders ever assembled to sign the Millennium Declaration in New York is certainly among the top. The can-do-spirit …
Navi Pillay The annual World Trade Organisation Public Forum on September 15-17 featured among its topics the role of women in reshaping the global economy as well as trade practices. This discussion did not come a moment too soon. It must now be taken and followed up with the seriousness …
National Human Rights Commission has taken strong exception to ''faulty investigation'' vis-a-vis violation of child labour laws in mines in Karnataka's Bellary district leading to large-scale acquittals. At a two-day regional meeting with the southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu -- which concluded here today -- …
SHILLONG: Pulled up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over the rampant use of child labour in coal mines, the State Government is working on a rehabilitation package for the children. "We are coordinating with all the relevant departments to work on the beneficial package for children working in …
The purpose of this handbook is to help civil society and those working on water and sanitation issues to adopt a human rights-based approach to advocacy, so that they can improve water and sanitation service regulation and provision at international, national and local levels. Directed primarily at community groups, human …
Access to water and sanitation as human rights has gained growing attention over the last few years at a global level, increasingly engaging the water sector and the international community in discussions regarding its content and implications. Human rights standards help orient policy-making towards focusing on the poorest and most …
Prafulla Das LANJIGARH: All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told the Dongria Kondh tribals living in and around the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa that his work as their
Petina Gappah Harare shoppers in an almost empty supermaket. Opening up the international market for Zimbabwe's controversial diamonds could pull the country out of financial crisis. Four years ago thousands of Zimbabweans descended on the Marange fields in the grip of diamond fever. Marange, near the eastern border with Mozambique, …
In State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2010, Minority Rights Group International offers a comprehensive overview of the situation faced by minorities in a world increasingly divided along religious lines. It includes: an analysis of government initiatives that contribute to the marginalisation of religious minorities, such as religious …
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is reviewing its Sustainability Framework, including the Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability (Policy), the Performance Standards (PS), and the Policy on Disclosure of Information. While the Policy defines the IFC's responsibility in providing financing for projects, the PS establish the IFC
Aleading economic daily in the UK developed cold feet at the last minute about an ad hostile to the oil company Shell. The refusal by the Financial Times has outraged the UK branch of Amnesty International. The ad was due to appear in the third week of May to coincide …
K. T. Sangameswaran CHENNAI: The State Human Rights Commission on Monday ordered that the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), Commissioner, Chennai Corporation, and the Chennai District Collector should file a report to the Commission on a report regarding contamination of groundwater in West Mogappair. Taking suo motu cognisance …
Standards to support the design and implementation of government-led REDD+ programs that respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and generate significant social and environmental benefits.
