Soaring e-waste affects the health of millions of children – A WHO Report
First WHO report on e-waste and child health calls for more effective and binding action to protect children from growing health threat. Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide...
We Demand Respect, Recognition and Rights for Domestic Workers
On International Domestic Workers’ Day
June 16th is International Domestic Workers Day, celebrating the 2011 passage of the International Labor Organization Convention 189 for Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Since the adoption of ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers, many countries...
An Observation on Elimination of Child Labour on World Day Against Child Labour
This year, the theme of World Day Against Child Labour is 'Act Now: End Child Labour'. In 1883, Samuel Gompers led the New York labor movement to successfully sponsor legislation prohibiting cigar-making in tenements, where thousands of young children worked in the...
SHWE GAS PROJECT – Gas Companies Must Support Democracy and Stop Flow of Wealth to the Military Junta
Myanmar’s natural resources, including offshore oil and gas, are a shared inheri- tance which belongs to the nation’s 54 million people and all future generations. Extraction is effectively the sale of the offshore gas wealth. Extraction-related taxes, royalties,...
Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, Trends and the Road Forward – ILO and UNICEF Report
Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward takes stock of where we stand in the global effort to end child labour. Published in the United Nations International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour by the International Labour Organization...
Air Pollution Analysis Jan- March 2021
For the sake of comparison two periods are compared above i.e. April 2019 to March 2020 and April 2020 to March 2021. The first two quarters from Apr 20 to Sep 20 show a much better air quality scenario when the nation wide lockdown was in works. During the same...
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