Jyoti Verma

Modi government’s promise to repeal the three farm laws in the forthcoming winter session of the Parliament vindicated the historic protest of the farmers who refused to back down, even in the face of adversity, said MAKAAM (Mahila Kisan…
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The report suggests that national trade policy can at best play a complementary role in achieving climate goals while poorly designed international trading rules will hinder a green transformation.
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Raising the collective voice of unorganised sector workers and deliberating on the strategy to build a national movement for unorganised workers, the annual National Conference of the Working People’s Charter (WPC), was held at the Montfort…
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Five years after the first Global Sustainable Transport Conference was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, the critical role of transport in growth, sustainable development and securing the health of our planet has only become clearer. When…
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Shifting decisively away from four decades driven by a misplaced faith in unregulated markets, and breathing new life into multilateral cooperation, will demand additional policy transformations that go well beyond the rescue packages…
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More than 170 individuals and organisations along with the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA Kisan Swaraj) have cited the detrimental and irreversible health and socio-economic impacts of mandatory food fortification.…
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As the global COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to stall progress for the world’s rural populations, the newly released the World Social Report  2021 “Reconsidering Rural Development” has stressed the need for moving rural development to the…
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The surge in COVID-19 infections and inadequate vaccination progress in many countries threaten a broad-based recovery of the world economy, while the global growth outlook has improved led by robust rebound in China and the US, says the…
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India’s NITI Aayog has prepared a Draft Migration Policy. The draft policy acknowledges migration as an integral part of development, and it calls for positive government interventions that facilitate internal migration. With a rights-based…
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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has released the Asia and the Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report 2021. The report comes at a time when the global pandemic COVID-19 has…
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