-Working Peoples’ Charter SECretariat, dated 21st March, 2020 An open letter has been issued by civil society and trade union activists to the Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, who is also heading the COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force. In that letter, a charter of demands has been put before the government to provide immediate relief to the working classes and the informal SECtor workers in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak in...
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COVID-19: Labour rights group seeks Rs 50,000-crore emergency fund for informal SECtor workers
-Scroll.in The Working People’s Charter told the Centre that the economic risks the COVID-19 poses to workers employed in the informal SECtor cannot be overlooked. The Working People’s Charter, a labour rights group, on Friday urged the Centre to create an emergency fund of Rs 50,000 crore to provide social and economic support to workers in the informal SECtors amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The organisation, which claims to represent trade unions...
More »Dr Henk Bekedam, WHO’s representative in India, interviewed by Abantika Ghosh (The Indian Express)
-The Indian Express India’s response has been comprehensive and robust. Right from the onset, the government has taken things very seriously, as reflected in the high-level of political commitment, including by the Prime Minister himself, says Dr Henk Bekedam. While India is yet to adopt the World Health Organisation’s prescription of “test test test” against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Dr Henk Bekedam, WHO’s representative in India, tells The Indian Express that...
More »In an open letter to the PM, civil society activists have asked for ensuring food SECurity and other rights-based entitlements of the poor and informal workers in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak
-Open Letter from the Right to Food Campaign to the Prime Minister of India dated 19th March, 2020 The Right to Food Campaign on 19 March, 2020 has issued an open letter to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. In its letter to the PM, civil society activists have asked the government for ensuring food SECurity and other rights-based entitlements for the poor, vulnerable and the informal SECtor workers in the wake...
More »Govt in Supreme Court: NRC necessary for sovereign country
-The Indian Express The petitions had also challenged SECtion 14A of the Citizenship Act, 1955, which provides legal backing for the NRC, on the grounds that it suffered from excessive delegation of powers to the executive and is therefore arbitrary. New Delhi: In its first legal response before the Supreme Court on a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), the central government has said that it is a “necessary exercise for any...
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