Jyoti Verma

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.…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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,…
Read More...