Jyoti Verma

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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The Central Hub of Migrant Assistance and Information Network (MAIN) was inaugurated at the Indian Social Institute (ISI), Delhi, 25 February. “MAIN is the outcome of long study, reflection, discernment and decision”, said Dr. Jerome…
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The ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’ (UNGPs) provide guidance for the implementation of the United Nations’ ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ framework contributing to higher levels of accountability and awareness within…
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The three Farm Acts introduced by the Government of India without adequate democratic consultation are the subject of much debate and ire presently. While much has been said about the likely adverse impacts on the status of farmers, the…
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With migrant workers, women and children facing greatest exploitation and traumas of the time, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a path-breaking period in history, said Padma Shri Dr Sunitha Krishan, Founder of Prajwala. She was speaking at…
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Rampant use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in floriculture farms in Tamil Nadu is affecting Dalit children who work in these farms.The study, entitled Toxic Blooms: Impacts of Pesticides in the Floriculture Industry in Tamil Nadu,…
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Providing a comprehensive and critical overview of the state of contemporary rural India, focusing on the key rural policies and trends that have drivenrural India’s economic and ecological transitions, the Network of Rural and Agrarian…
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"We need a shift from an economy of limitless greed scientifically put into GDP and growth. We are living through about 30 years of a real build-up of a health emergency, where people are fed with toxic food, nutritionally empty food just…
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At a time when innovative bus shelter designs, including solar-powered and intelligent bus shelters, are in vogue, people in Kerala are in wonderment at the sight of a bus shelter for passengers made of used bicycle parts. The bus shelter…
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