The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, write Andrew Wasley & Madlen Davies. There are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening - even though the rapid growth in antibiotic resistant bacteria in India is spreading across the world, including to the UK and NHS hospitals.
… Dirty production of NHS antibiotics in India helping to create superbugs Andrew … 26th October 2016 News Health Corporations UK India 3-cut.jpg The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are …
Cattle crammed into trucks, calves hurled on their backs and other serious animal welfare abuses happen daily in India. Despite ambitious legislation, animal welfare is a concept the leather industry are yet to embrace. Peter Bengtsen reports
… Cruelty and animal suffering blight India’s booming leather industry Peter … serious animal welfare abuses happen daily in India. Despite ambitious legislation, animal … darkness engulfs Highway 181 in the humid Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Light from the …
The tiny Pacific state of the Marshall Islands has given oral evidence to the International Court of Justice against all nuclear armed states for failing to pursue disarmament. The UK, India and Pakistan were present to deny the charges, but the US, Russia, France, China, Israel and North Korea have denied the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction.
… Nuclear WMD Un Marshall Islands Pacific UK India Pakistan bikini-cut.jpg The tiny Pacific … for failing to pursue disarmament. The UK, India and Pakistan were present to deny the … respondent nations - the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan. Tony de Brum, Co-Agent of …
India’s tanning industry has started tackling environmental issues but its progress on worker safety is woeful. As Peter Bengtsen found out, illness and deaths linked to toxic tanning chemicals appear worryingly common
… used for leather production poisoning India’s tannery workers Pter Bengsten Danwatch … Slavery Natural World dsc_0123 resized.jpg India’s tanning industry has started tackling … hut in a tiny rural village in southern India. After his usual breakfast of rice and …
As London fashion week kicks off, the problem of unfair labour practices tarnishing UK high street brands isn't going away. Rosie Spinks reports
… struggle with 'bonded' girl labour in India Rosie Spinks | 15th September 2011 News … highlights the plight of female labourers in India who produce, according to the … any proposals for concrete action, SOMO and India Committee of the Netherlands welcomed …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
… prepared for the COP21 conference: China, India, Japan, Argentina, Turkey, Jordan and … of shut-downs increases. Growth elsewhere? India is the only other country where there is … in the nearish-future. But nuclear growth in India has been modest - six reactor start-ups …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
… Activism Development UK Law Politics beggar-india-cut.jpg A bill to quadruple the UK's aid … invest in, for example: Private healthcare in India Private education across Africa An … and wealthier developing countries such as India (which remains under the new strategy) …
With Fairtrade Fortnight in full swing, Ruth Styles caught up with People Tree founder, Safia Minney, and Swallows director, Santo Haque, to find out why hand weaving is set to be fashion's next big scandal
… radar. ‘There are 10 million hand weavers in India and Bangladesh; it's the second largest sector after agriculture in India. It’s huge. And these people are being … have this economic policy [in Bangladesh and India] that promotes urban development which …
Austria's pledge to strive for the elimination of nuclear WMD kindled fresh energy and hope at this month's Vienna Conference on Nuclear Weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson. Now we must maintain the momentum towards global nuclear disarmament at the May 2015 meeting of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
… 2014 Activism Nuclear WMD Austria USA UK India Pakistan Japan War tsar-bomba-cut.jpg … States and Britain - attended, as well as India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed nations … ranks of civil society experts. Pakistan and India - prepared to talk of nuclear peace …
As flagship nuclear projects run into long delays and huge cost overruns, solar and wind power are falling in price, writes David Elliott. Renewables already supply twice as much power as nuclear. It's just too bad the nuclear-fixated UK government hasn't noticed.
… to the future, there are scenarios for India, Japan, South Korea, the USA and the EU, … renewables are not as developed as in China, India has been pushing them quite hard, with … at 2.6 GW grid-linked so far, but Bridge to India is pushing for 100GW by 2020. Funding …
The global rebirth of nuclear power was meant to be well under way by now, writes Jim Green. But in fact, nuclear's share of world power generation is on a steady long term decline, and new reactors are getting ever harder to build, and finance. The only real growth area is decommissioning, but that too has a problem: where's the money to pay for it?
… nuclear renaissance - Russia, South Korea and India - growth is likely to be modest and … attack on Korea Hydro's computer network. India has 21 operating reactors, six under construction and 22 planned. But India's nuclear program is in a "deep freeze" …
The damage caused by fracking to people, communities and the wider environment will be put under the legal spotlight in public hearings in the US and the UK, write Damien Short & Tom Kerns. While the 'ruling' that emerges will be non-binding, it will provide an authoritative, expert dossier of fact and argument for real legal actions to follow.
… hazards such as occurred in Bhopal, India, where 15,000 local residents were … settlement with the Government of India. They also served as a source of …
People Tree’s Safia Minney has come through crises, both financial and natural, buoyed up by the belief that Fairtrade should top the fashion agenda
… language classes with ‘bonkers’ Italian and Indian missionaries who were working with the … In 1994, in collaboration with producers from India, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, Global Village … model, handmade clothes from rural Africa or India, which typically cost 30 per cent more …
The Scottish diet is famous for being the worst in Europe, write Pete Ritchie and Miriam Ross. Yet the country has rich land and sea resources, and exports large quantities of high quality food. By treating food as a common good instead of leaving the market to provide, Scots can start to transform their food future.
… and Friday in Glasgow, farmers from Scotland, India, Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago and … land - around the same area per person as in India, which produces almost all of its own …
Black Friday arrives immediately after the crushing disappointment of COP27.
… carbon emissions a year, roughly the same as India emitted in 2021 - a nation of 1.4 … from now. Yet in less wealthy nations, like India and Indonesia, the average carbon …
As London Fashion Week kicks off, Lida Hujic looks at the reasons behind the decline of British craftmanship and asks if we're in danger of losing it altogether
… both local and foreign workers (mainly from India). Every member of staff goes through … including Fazlur Rahman who arrived from India four years ago without qualifications … duo Pejoski/Bezovski), have their ateliers in India and Indonesia, respectively. Like …
Consumers around the world want their electricity to come from renewable sources, writes Paul Brown. Yet governments from the UK to Australia are defying the popular will as they push for fossil fuels and nuclear power. The good news? Renewable energy is surging ahead regardless.
… 2014 News Energy Renewables UK Australia India Germany Solar Wind westmill-cut.jpg … support - although solar power is popular. In India, where power cuts are a major headache … businesses, a recent poll showed that 50% of Indians want more renewable energy, and …
The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil Association - consistently Gung-ho! for the last 20 years, while refusing to engage with critics of the technology or even accept the existence of any problems. Its latest effort represents more of the same, while exposing this once August body to ridicule for its egregious scientific howlers.
… the unfolding tragedy of GM Bt cotton use in India, where there have been widespread crop … widespread moves away from GM cotton seeds in India, often with the support of State …
It began as a student project: environmentally-friendly underwear with a message. But Green Knickers has taken off - to the delight of its founders. Matilda Lee reports
… styles are made from organic cotton grown in India and made up there by small, fair trade … £25 versus the £12 styles manufactured in India. In September 2006, with their supply …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
… Protocol because it does not bind China and India, and the Chinese and Indian governments say they will not tolerate … an ‘Asia-Pacific’ partnership with China, India, Japan, Korea and Canada as a rival to …
From organic cotton to Fairtrade fabric recent years have seen the high street making an effort to go green. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Sella Oneko investigates
… UK is imported, mainly from countries such as India and China. According to DEFRA we buy … 80 per cent of organic cotton is grown in India and in order to fulfill the requirements …
It's barely mentioned in the election campaign or reported in the media. But a powerful faction of Tory ministers, ex-ministers and backbench MPs are bent on using Brexit to ignite a massive bonfire of 'spirit-crushing' laws on wildlife protection, air and water pollution, pesticides, renewable energy and public health, writes Brendan Montague. At risk are not just EU directives and regulations but even the UK's own Climate Change Act. May's Brexit may not just be hard, but very, very dirty.
… if we wanted, accept emissions standards from India, America, and Europe. There'd be no … that. We could say, if it's good enough in India, it's good enough for here. There's … if we wanted, accept emissions standards from India, America, and Europe. There'd be no …
Even the most conservative estimates of sea level rise caused by climate change will cause a redrawing of the physical map of the planet. Here Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, looks at the potential consequences.
… in to the territorial waters of neighbours India and Burma (Myanmar). Or even into … Many coastal nations, including China, India, and the U.S., are in the same position. … island states of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean sink completely, inhabitants may …
As part of a global week of action campaigners from Divest London have gathered to ‘Raise the Heat' on the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, writes Hal Rhoades - protesting its plan to invest in a ‘carbon bomb' coal project that endangers global climate and threatens to finish off the Great Barrier Reef.
… ensure it can export its coal to markets in India and China. To do this it hopes to … Stanley and Goldman Sachs. The State Bank of India is understood to be on the verge of …