Despite the protection afforded by several important legal instruments, the environment continues to be the silent victim of armed conflicts worldwide. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has conducted over twenty post-conflict assessments since 1999, using state-of-the-art science to determine the environmental impacts of war.
The World Climate Conference-3 concluded in Geneva Friday with a decision to create a global framework for climate services to help the global community better adapt to the challenges of the climate variability and change.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, Friday chaired the high-level segment of the World Climate Conference.
In their separate meetings with US Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke on Wednesday, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani discussed a number of issues, including the country
On May 25, the Supreme Court freed Binayak Sen. The paediatrician and human rights activist was held prisoner by the Chhattisgarh government for two years for alleged Maoist links. Savvy Soumya Misra spoke to him on his future plans What is your priority now? In Chhattisgarh, violence is being answered with Maoist violence. The state and the Centre have said they will intensify
Observations of Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal, at the Ladies' Study Group Charitable Trust Annual Award Ceremony,
The Taj Bengal, Kolkata, April 7 2009.
Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is more than a political text. It is an ontological drama staged by Gandhi, reflected in his treatises against "modern civilisation", and his critique of "modernity".
This report, which inaugurates a new policy series by UNEP on the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts, aims to summarize the latest knowledge and field experience on the linkages between environment, conflict and peacebuilding, and to demonstrate the need for those linkages to be addressed in a more coherent and systematic way by the UN, Member States and other stakeholders.
pakistan was thrown into yet another political chaos on November 3 when President Pervez Musharraf imposed the state of emergency, suspending the country's constitution. The decision has met with
