THE BRANDT Commission in 1980 had called for a world "based less on power and status, more on justice and contract; less discretionary, more governed by fair and open rules". Shridath

The environmental movement is politically weak. That is the lesson from the Rio summit

For most of the live coverage of the Rio conference we have to depend on CNN. And it requires BBC to give us a perspective on our Green Revolution....

The UNCED deliberations have to be viewed in the context of northern attempts to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world

The state uses all the right words. But its actions don't match its rhetoric, unfortunately