The International Labour Organization (ILO) was the first specialised agency of the United Nations and has a mandate to advance social justice and promote decent work by setting international labour standards. Within the UN, its tripartite structure is unique to the ILO where representatives from the government, employers and employees openly debate and create labour […]
A cruel disease that touches all of our lives, we all know somebody who will die from cancer and many of us have already witnessed a friend, or a loved one, perish in its grip. An estimated 9.6 million people die each year from cancer, which is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and […]
Satinath Sarangi, Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA) and Managing Trustee of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic has been speaking at events in Mangaluru (or Mangalore) urging that lessons should be learned from Bhopal to ensure that history does not repeat itself. “Chemical industries necessarily make an impact on the water bodies and Nature which […]
‘The world is against them’: new era of cancer lawsuits threaten Monsanto & other glyphosate manufacturers including Dow Chemical According to the Guardian: “In an historic verdict in August, a jury ruled that Monsanto had caused a man’s terminal cancer and ordered the agrochemical corporation to pay $289m in damages. The extraordinary decision, exposing the […]
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 60 days, from August 9th, to finalize a ban of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. The court’s decision overturned what was one of the first formal actions of the controversial former head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, who chose to […]
