Dakar – Tens of thousands of patients in Senegal suffer from excruciating pain every year without relief, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Unnecessarily restrictive government regulations and poor training for healthcare workers impede their effective medical…
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Cultivating resilience in the face of ecological change
Greenwatch Dhaka Desk Washington, D.C.-In the past decade, approximately 200-300 million people have been seriously affected by natural disasters or technological accidents each year-a staggering figure that is bound to only increase in the coming decades. It is becoming clear…
Four ways for facilitating universal access to clean water
Chicago – ‘The planet’s entire supply of freshwater that can be used by humans and ecosystems amounts to approximately 200,000 cubed kilometers (http://www.unwater.org/statistics_res.html), or less than one percent of all freshwater resources. And, unfortunately, humans are using these limited resources…
Refocusing environmental education
Washington, D.C.—Over the past decade, more college students than ever have completed environmentally oriented courses or graduated with degrees in environmental studies and science (ESS). While many hail this environmental renaissance in U.S. higher education as an important step toward…
World Water Week calls attention to growing need for clean water
CHICAGO – The planet’s entire supply of freshwater that can be used by humans and ecosystems amounts to approximately 200,000 cubed kilometers (http://www.unwater.org/statistics_res.html), or less than one percent of all freshwater resources. And, unfortunately, humans are using these limited resources…
Containing terrorism in Pakistan
Dr. M. S. Haq
To trap a dictator: HRW
Sifting through the thousands of documents strewn across the floors of an abandoned secret police headquarters in Chad, Reed Brody glimpsed the violent, final moments of Rose Lokissim’s brave life.
No amnesty for Thailand rights abusers: HRW
New York – A proposed amnesty law before Thailand’s parliament should exclude people who ordered or carried out human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The Thai government should affirm that prosecuting those responsible for rights abuses, regardless of…
Can peak production from Planet in distress be sustained?
Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs: Volume 20 showcases the planet’s growing demand for food and energy, its shrinking resources, and the implications of these trends
Rafiq murder, double shock to people
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The recovery of the handcuffed body of a Dhaka city unit BNP leader Rafiqul Islam Majumder from a field in Jhenidah on Saturday night came as a double shock to common people not only for the cold…