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Dejusticia and Business and Human Rights Resource Center release a report on the coal industry and human rights

ESCR-Net members Dejusticia and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre have recently co-published a report entitled “Digging Deeper: The Human Rights Impacts of Coal in the Global South”...

Appeal to enquire into termination of Dr Sandeep Pandey's teaching contract by IIT-BHU

Please sign this petition here . The premature termination of contract of Dr Sandeep Pandey from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on charge of being 'pro-Naxal' and 'anti-national' is a shameful episode. It is yet another instance both of intolerance shown by...

Wrap-up: September 2015 Discussion

In the September discussion facilitated by Jessica Mayberry from Video Volunteers, we continued our conversation from August on participatory...

September 2015 Discussion: Using Video as a Tool for Community-led Monitoring

Welcome to September’s monthly discussion, which continues the theme of participatory monitoring! I’m Jessica Mayberry from Video Volunteers and I’ll be facilitating the discussion this month. Video...

Norges Bank excludes POSCO and other companies from their pension fund due to risks of environmental damage

Norges Bank has decided to exclude the companies POSCO, IJM Corp Bhd, Genting Bhd and Daewoo International Corp from the investment universe of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). The companies are excluded base on an assessment of the risk of severe...

The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project

Documenting the human rights abuses promoted by the POSCO-India project this report, produced by ESCR-Net and the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at NYU School of Law, calls for a suspension of the POSCO-India project and a halt to the human rights abuses....

Anti-Posco activists observe Black Day

On June 22, 2015, under the banner of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (the ‘anti-POSCO people’s movement,’ or PPSS), hundreds of villagers observed Black day at Patna village to mark the 10th Anniversary of the signing of an MOU between the government of Odisha in...

Video Volunteers launches a video series to examine gaps, report violations and improve state of maternal healthcare in rural India

Are safe pregnancies in rural India a luxury? 56,000 women die due to pregnancy related complications in India every year. Accounting for 17% of the maternal deaths worldwide,...

International Finance Corporation investments cause human rights abuses around the world

New report by several NGOs says that the IFC is failing to perform due diligence and to identify or effectively manage risk in many of its investments in third-party lenders

Thousands march in India to demand land reform

Ekta Parishad calls on the Indian Government to comply with a historic 10 Points agreement on land reform