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
Environment
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Roadmap for environment given a miss
Neither industry nor activists are able to find any trace of a road-map for environment in Jaswant Singh's Budget.
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Rocky road to Cancun
There is very little progress to report one year into the World Trade Organisation's Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Intergovernmental divisions remain entrenched, and key deadline
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NGO teaches children to care for their environment
Eureka Forbes Institute of Environment, a non-profit organisation prokoted by Eureka Forbes Ltd., has taken the initiative to promote awareness about the role of the environment and how to protect it
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Farming impasse threat' to Doha deadline
World Trade Organisation talks this week on agricultural trade reform have made no visible progress in bridging the divide between free traders and protectionists, threatening to derail the entire
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Influential citizens seek to spread benefit of world trade
An influential group of prominent citizens from developed and developing countries is to boost efforts to spread the benefits of global trade to the world's poor. The Trade and Poverty Forum (TPF)
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Mobile courts to check littering at public places
From April 1, littering or dirtying of public places in the city will not be easy. Nearly three dozen mobile courts will crisscross the city imposing and collecting on-the-spot fines for defacing the
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Yamuna affecting elephants too
Elephants here are finding the Yamuna water a bit too uncomfortable for their liking. For the 30-odd elephants living near the Yamuna, the garbage that the city dumps there is proving injurious to
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Drought relief works till June: Naidu
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, encountered a plethora of grievances on lack of wage employment works, drinking water, fodder and power supply from the people during his
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HVP demands white paper' on drought relief
The Haryana Vikas Party (HVP), headed by the former Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal charged the INLD government in the state of playing with the sentiments of the farmers of Ahirwal belt of South
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Bhopal tragedy touches Delhi theatre
Rahul Verma, a Canadian playwright of Indian Origin has scripted a play "Bhopal" that presents a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the gas tragedy nearly two decades ago that killed