Category Archive: Environment

Ex Exxon Valdez Refused Interim Relief for Entry by Supreme Court Citing UN’s Basel Convention

Ex Exxon Valdez Refused Interim Relief for Entry by Supreme Court Citing UN’s Basel Convention Intervention of Cabinet Committee on Security and Court’s Inter Ministerial Committee Needed  New Delhi 14/05/2012: Following the order… Read More

Supreme Court’s Order Seeking Compliance with UN’s Basel Convention Welcomed

  New Delhi 10/05/2012: ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) welcomes the order of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameswar bench of Supreme Court in the matter of a US hazardous end-of-life vessel named ‘Oriental… Read More

Entry of ex US ship Oriental Nicety (ex Exxon Valdez) in Indian waters

Entry of ex US ship Oriental Nicety (ex Exxon Valdez) in Indian waters not permissible without prior decontamination Ministry of Defence Should Probe Hazardous Wastes Trade & Movement of End-of-Life Ships in Indian… Read More

Need to Save Workers in Nuclear, Shipbreaking & Asbestos Industry

Recommendations of Inter-ministerial committee for Safety Measures for Alang Workers Ignored New Delhi 28/4/2012 On International Commemoration Day  for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) remembers all the workers… Read More

Billionaires to mine cosmic riches

John Terrett is Al Jazeera’s US correspondent. A group of US billionaires is planning a daring space mission to extract fuel and precious metals from asteroids as they whiz past Earth at millions… Read More

Reaping harvest of happiness

G Krishna Prasad is the founder director of Sahaja Samrudha, a grassroots-level organisation involving organic farmers and seed savers. In this article, he tells how farmers in Karnataka are showing the way to… Read More

एक फिल्मकार की राष्ट्रपति से अपील

To read/download the letter in English, click here. सेवा में, महामहिम श्रीमति प्रतिभा देवीसिंह पाटिल, राष्ट्रपति, भारत गणराज्य, राष्ट्रपति भवन, नई दिल्ली. विषय: 59 वें राष्ट्रीय फिल्म पुरस्कार समारोह में पुरस्कृत फिल्म ‘बोम’… Read More

Letter to President of Pakistan & Prime Minister of India on Siachen

An Open Letter to President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of India on Siachen Glacier, urging them to convert ‘world’s highest battlefield’ into a Nature and Peace Park   Hon’ble President Government of Pakistan… Read More

What’s the Difference Between Fox News and Oxford University Press?

Frances Moore Lappé just released EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want (Nation Books) on the fortieth anniversary of her Diet for a Small Planet. Eighteen months ago… Read More

Dumping of dead & hazardous US Ship, former Exxon Valdez in Indian waters

To Shri G K Vasan Union Minister of Shipping Government of India New Delhi Subject- Dumping of dead & hazardous US Ship, former Exxon Valdez in Indian waters Sir, This is with reference… Read More

Open letter by Korean Organisations on POSCO Steel Plant in India

Open Letter by Korean Organisations to Naveen Pattnaik, the Chief Minister of Odisha State, India The Chief Minister of Odisha State, Naveen Pattnaik Bhubaneswar 751001. Odisha, India March 23, 2012 We human rights,… Read More