-The Hindu Business Line Experts say authorities will need to probe and take quick action, in the interest of keeping the faith in medicine exports from India The death of 66 children in Gambia, potentially-linked to four cough and cold syrups made in India by Maiden Pharmaceuticals, has brought up the quality question, again. How did an allegedly contaminated product slip through the regulatory cracks, casting a long shadow on the Indian...
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India’s Workplace Harassment Law Has Failed Informal, Marginalised Workers -Surbhi Karwa
-Behanbox.com New Delhi: India’s law on sexual harassment at work has failed to account for the experiences of informal sector working women, most of who are from marginalised communities – Dalits, Adivasis and Bahujans. This denial of workplace justice to women who are doubly marginalised can be traced to two factors: the failure of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) or the POSH Act to take into...
More »62% of rural households in India have fully functional tap water connections within their premises, says Water Resources Ministry report -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu However, the report found, ‘most of the anganwadi centres and schools, had higher than the permissible range of residual chlorine and indicated inappropriate local dosing’ Around 62% of rural households in India had fully functional tap water connections within their premises, according to a survey commissioned by the Union Ministry of Water Resources to assess the functioning of the government’s marquee Jal Jeevan Mission. In June, the Centre had reported...
More »In 2021, Over 100 Houses Demolished Every Day, 24 People Evicted Every Hour, says latest HLRN report
--Press release by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) dated September 21, 2022 Over One lakh People Already Evicted in 2022. Nearly 1 Million People Faced Evictions in India in the Last Five Years. In 2021, over 36,480 houses were demolished and 2,07,106 people were forcibly evicted across India by governments – at all levels, reveals a new report by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN). The report also finds that in...
More »No Transparency, Accountability or Public Participation when ISA Approves Exploratory Deep-Sea Mining
-Press release by Mineral Inheritors Rights Association (MIRA) dated September 21, 2022 The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) declares that the area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction (comprising the seabed, ocean floor and subsoil, excluding the water above) (the “Area”) and its resources, are the Common Heritage of Humankind. All rights in the resources of the Area are vested in humankind as a whole. UNCLOS provides...
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