Stories of success and failure

Appetite for danger

Jobs involving hazardous chemicals actually select people with the appropriate genes

No greenhorn

FM focuses on political environment

Orissa kendu leaf workers end strike

Rs 1 crore due to NREGS workers in UP

Bihar in reverse gear

State plans to bring down its minimum wage rate to that under MGNREGA

Closure of stone crushers leaves labour high and dry

Fiery protest

An immolation bid by a Bhopal resident leads to closure of polluting factories

Mercury threat

Mining accounts for more labour deaths

Tannery workers in Kanpur risk DNA damage

Trivalent chromium, widely used in tanning industry, and thought to be harmless found to be the culprit

MGNREGS workers in Kerala to get pension

State and Centre to contribute Rs 1,000 each per head

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order

In short

The killer mines

Open cast mining activity in Rajasthan has played havoc with the environment and is killing workers slowly

Police cracks down on retrenched UCIL mine workers in Jharkhand

Most of the protesting workers are tribal people who were displaced from their land by the Bandhuhurang mining project

Kolkata to host parallel AIDS conference after US denies entry to sex workers

Country’s laws do not permit granting visa to those involved in prostitution

Forest dwellers march for their rights

State governments reject 50 per cent of the 3.15 million claims filed under Forest Rights Act

Saltpan workers in Gujarat served eviction notice from sanctuary

Pollution Pvt. Ltd.

A polluting industrial unit in Gujarat continues to operate, despite the state Pollution Control Board issuing notices to shut it down

UN develops modules to provide safe work environment to health workers

Experts say high rate of infectious viral disease, back injuries, sharps injuries reported among health workers across the world and that it is …

Over half the HIV infected people globally do not know their positive status: UN

Gap Report calls for scaling up efforts to end the disease by 2030

“Women being denied forest claims’

Report by non-profits highlights gender disparity in Forest Rights Act implementation

In Brief

Rejected forest rights to be reconsidered: tribal affairs minister

It may not be possible to reject land title claims filed under Forest Rights Act in future