Asbestos Victims Worldwide Call for Action by Brazil’s Supreme Court
Press Release November 26, 2023 This week, Brazilian asbestos victims are demonstrating in Brasilia over the postponement by the Supreme Court (STF) of a decision which could have shut down operations at the country’s Cana Brava asbestos mine, the only mine still...
Is Revising the Air Pollution Standards Enough?
India revised its NAAQS standards in the year 2009 after a gap of 15 years. The 24-hour standard for PM2.5 under the NAAQS is 60 whereas it is 25 as per WHO guidelines 2005. WHO has just revised its 2005 standards in 2021 - PM 2.5 has been kept at 15µg/m3. The PM10...
Everything Old is New Again: Rediscovering a Social Approach to Work and Health Inequities
Increased levels of disease and poverty among workers during the Industrial Revolution led Rudolf Virchow and others to explore how social and economic conditions affected health, disease, and the practice of medicine [1]. The 50th anniversary of NIOSH comes at...
Make India Asbestos-Free: India’s search for asbestos alternatives
Health care is the most important factor for each country on this planet. Many environmental factors affect human health and well-being. Heavy industry, harmful emissions, other types of pollution and inappropriate resources used in various products can have a...
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...
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...
MAKE TAXES WORK FOR WOMEN NOW!
WE NEED MORE THAN A VACCINE SHOT TO SAVE LIVES. Everyday women fight for survival, safety, security, health, justice, and equality. In the face of the pandemic and other crises, the United Nations estimates that for every 100 men pushed to extreme poverty, there will...
Dust and Air Pollution Campaign in Neb Sarai
Every year Delhi faces a severe pollution problem once Diwali is around the corner and is quite prevalent throughout winters. Seeing the severity, Environics Trust on 15th December 2020, ran a campaign on Dust and Air Pollution Campaign in the Neb Sarai area. The...
Labour Reformation 2020
New Labour Codes 2020 passed by the Parliament and assented by the Hon’ble President of India. The article contains few important highlights of the four new labor codes and it gives a gist about how the new labor codes will revamp the existing labor laws and their...
The Real Cost of Coal: The Time is Up for the Monarch
The monarchy of King Coal[i] is being slowly surrendered. Sun is economically overpowering him; climate change calls for his immediate dismissal and communities are fed up with the land and accompanying resources he has been devouring in the name of providing “cheap”...
- Along The Burnt Coal Corridor…
- Musings from Near and Far
- A day to remember – Coal Satyagraha – The article appeared in Times of India
- Nature’s Trail by John Seed – This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949)
- Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
- Airbender – Air Quality Monitoring Map