Tag Right to Food
Title: The Pandemic, Welfare States And The by : Isheeta Sharma & Europa Doley The Right to Food campaign which began in 2014 is an informal network of people and organisations coming together to achieve the goal of the right… Continue Reading →
The very real differences between the BJP and Congress agendas A look at the manifestos of the Congress and the BJP and what they offer to the voters Mihir S Sharma | <news:geo_locations>New Delhi April 7, 2014 Last Updated at 16:25 IST… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK / GENEVA (25 October 2013) – In his final report to the UN General Assembly, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, today welcomed “the rights resurgence” he has seen across the world… Continue Reading →
On 24/10/2013 by Live Law News Network The right to life and human dignity under art 21 of the Constitution also incorporates the right to have food articles and beverages which are free from harmful residues such as pesticides and insecticides, the Supreme Court has ruled…. Continue Reading →
Cap benefits, limit families, suggests panel Call To Dilute Govt Commitments To Maternity Care, Nutritional Security Of Children Draws Fire Nitin Sethi TNN , Jan 24, 2012 New Delhi: Should maternity benefits and nutritional support to children under government schemes… Continue Reading →
image, courtesy -pagall patrakar at fakingnews.com By Shankkar Aiyar 30th September 2012 , new indian express History, they say, repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. In India’s political economy, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the tragedy… Continue Reading →
A report by civil society groups says it is impossible to tackle the causes of hunger if existing power relations remain untouched Mark Tran guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 September 2012 09.56 BST An Indian boy eats food distributed by a charity outside… Continue Reading →
Supriya Sharma, TNN | Aug 27, 2012, An analysis by right-to-food activist Manas Ranjan shows while suicides listed under ‘self-employed (farming/agriculture)’ have been falling, those under ‘self-employed (other)’ and ‘other’ have been rising, indicating farmer suicides are being concealed… Continue Reading →
TNN | Aug 13, 2012, 04.35AM IST VADODARA: Wheat enough to feed more than 5,000 people for more than a year has been left to rot at the Vadodara railway station even as the current spell of monsoon showers hit the city. The foodgrain… Continue Reading →
Physical assault on Dalit women by PDS dealer (retired from Armed Forces) in Patan, Dist. Palamau, Jharkhand Report of the joint fact-finding exercise by a team of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Palamau and Right to Food Campaign, Palamau… Continue Reading →