by admin | May 18, 2015 | News
Geneva (AFP) – Four countries including Russia have blocked a bid to add chrysotile asbestos to a list of dangerous substances subject to export restrictions, participants at a UN meeting in Geneva said Saturday. Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Zimbawe...
by admin | May 16, 2015 | News
Each time I arrived in Hongjun village after a 12-hour journey by plane, bus,and motorbike, I took deep breaths of the crisp mountain air—as if that could clean out my Beijing-polluted lungs. It did not take long for the irony to hit me. This alpine landscape in...
by admin | May 15, 2015 | News
India along with a handful of countries including Russia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Cuba once again blocked the listing of Chrysotile Asbestos in the Prior Informed Consent list (PIC) at a UN convention meeting currently underway in Geneva, using...
by admin | May 13, 2015 | News
Up to 90 per cent of the world’s electronic waste, worth nearly US $19 billion, is illegally traded or dumped each year, according to a report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Each year, the electronic industry – one of...
by admin | May 13, 2015 | News
खनिया का बेटा खनिया – Read details
by admin | May 6, 2015 | News
मध्य प्रदेश के पन्ना ज़िले मे पत्थर खदान मे काम करने वाले मजदूरों को सिलिकोसिस नामक गंभीर बीमारी हो गयी थी। जिसके चलते कई मजदूरों की जान चली गयी थी। इन मजदूरों को मुआवज़ा दिलाने के लिए काफी लंबे समय से संघर्ष चल रहा था। यह मामला राष्ट्रिय मानवाधिकार आयोग के समक्ष जाने...
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