Human Rights Day: How District Mineral Foundation aims to ensure that communities benefit from mining wealth
On this Human Rights Day, we want to emphasise that the right to minerals lies with the local people, and so they must benefit
On this Human Rights Day, we want to emphasise that the right to minerals lies with the local people, and so they must benefit
The Government of Kerala has directed the Kerala State Council for Science Technology andEnvironment (KSCSTE) for monitoring endosulfan persistence in soil, water and bloodsamples in the selected areas of Kasaragod District and its impacts on human health andenvironment vide G.O. (MS) No. 1550/20/10/HFW, dated: 09.04.2010 (Annexure I).
It was in February 2001 that Down To Earth broke the story.
A link was established between the unusually high incidence of deformities and diseases in Padre, a village in Kerala's Kasaragod district and endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide.