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 Report links human rights abuse with environment

The report of a US human rights organisation cites the example of nine countries to prove its theory that governments that violate human rights will almost always abuse environment as well

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
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Environment, United States Of America (US)
Environment

 Record of repression

BRAZIL: Trade union leader and environmentalist Chico Mendes was one of 1,681 rural workers and activists killed in the struggle over land in Brazil between January 1, 1964, and January 31, 1992.

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
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Environment, United States Of America (US)
Environment

 Community welfare works as a contraceptive

In Pakistan, they are controlling population growth by raising the living standards of local communities through Pasbaan, the social development wing of the country's family planning association

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Robert Wilkinson
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Pollution, Health Care, Family Planning, Community Groups, Pakistan
India

 Much ado about nothing

There are no new insights in the Morse committee's recommendations

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Vasudha Dhagamwar
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Environment, Rehabilitation, India, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Narmada Valley Project
Environment

 A blueprint and not a plan

THIS BOOK, a collection of articles by six authors, is meant to be a sequel to Blueprint for a Green Economy (Earthscan), which was published in September 1989. The theme of the earlier book was

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Kirit Parikh
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Environment, Global Warming, Economic Development, Ozone Layer
India

 We cannot turn the clock back

The need of the hour is to reconcile apparently irreconcilable interests

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Jaswant Singh
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Environment, Displacement, Rehabilitation, India, Gujarat, Narmada Valley Project
Environment

 Tehri report delayed

THE COMMITTEE appointed by Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao to examine the viability of the Tehri hydroelectric project will not submit its report before mid-August. It was supposed to have the

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
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Environment, Hydroelectricity, Earthquakes
Poverty

 IMF package leads Pakistan to disaster

A short term economic policy has meant more unemployment and poverty as well as a slower growth rate and environmental degradation

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Robert Wilkinson
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Environment, Poverty, Sustainable Development
Environment

 The fight over the DEAD

A severe tug of war between the North and the South preceded the unanimous acceptance of the Rio declaration

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
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Environment, Development, Developing Countries
Environment

 Opinions

Our position is that USA is the biggest culprit in the world. ---Environment minister Kamal Nath on the eve of his departure to Rio We cannot permit the extreme in the environmental

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
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Environment, NGO, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries

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