‘Lokayuktas can help control rampant mining’
June 15th, 2012 - 4:25 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, June 15 (IANS) New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)has advocated powerful Lokayukta institutions in Indian states as one of the ways to control the rampaging mining industry from encroaching ... Read more...
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‘40 percent of Goa mining operations without clearances’
June 14th, 2012 - 9:40 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, June 14 (IANS) Nearly 40 per cent of the 100-odd mining operations in Goa are possibly functioning without requisite clearances, says a report by an international human rights organisation, ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Goa politicians involved in mining operations: Rights group
June 14th, 2012 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, June 14 (IANS) The active involvement of politicians in Goa's multi-crore mining business has come to the fore in a report released by an international rights watchdog.The 70-page report ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Geneva rights fest to focus on corruption in India
August 25th, 2011 - 4:33 pm ICT by IANS
Locarno (Switzerland), Aug 25 (IANS) Guess what the 10th edition of the Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva is planning to spotlight next year? Corruption in ... Read more...
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Amnesty wants EU to raise human rights issues at summit with India
September 28th, 2008 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Brussels, Sep 28, (IANS) Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the European Union (EU) to raise the issue of human rights in India at the EU-India summit that will take ... Read more...
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Nirmala Deshpande remembered in Pak as a peace, HR activist
May 8th, 2008 - 7:55 pm ICT by admin
Lahore, May 8 (ANI): Human rights activists and experts from various fields remembered Gandhian icon Nirmala Deshpande, who passed away in New Delhi on May 1, as an apostle of peace ... Read more...
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