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Durban: Negotiating to Nowhere |
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| The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) met in Durban in December 2011 to negotiate ways to drastically reduce emissions to keep the world safe from a catastrophic collapse. What they achieved at the end of several days of protracted negotiations was to push the world to yet another round of torturous and messy negotiations for a new treaty, protocol or legal instrument .... [Download ] | |
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Critical Concerns: Readings on Critical Issues & Concerns for NGOs, Activists and others concerned with Justice & Social Change
A Sharing Session on Urban Agriculture
"Climate Changes Cities - recycle waste, grow food, save water"
Program held on Friday, 8th August 2008
India and climate change: A DPH Fiche
A set of 16 educutional articles written by CED and published in August 2010, in
www.d-p-h.info - an international solidarity website for "dialogues, propositions, histoires pour une citoyenneté mondiale".
The topics were
Climate Change and Agriculture in India: Avenues for Mitigation
Coastal communities in India bear the brunt of climate change
To begin with, CED prepared a fourteen page, notes and
readings for activist, and social workers, one version of which was printed and
circulated at the pilot workshop.The notes summarise the impacts, adaptation and
vulnerability of coastal areas, while also outlining various issues and concepts
relating to vulnerability, and takes up certain concrete issues that have comes up
in the recent past which have a bearing on climate change and vulnerabilities of the coastal populations like development pressures
around mumbai which impact climate change, changing fishing habitat and livelihood, and poor in the cities.
Perspectives on Social Transformation
Globalisation: Is there an alternative ?
Globalisation - as it is unfolding across the globe - is basically a process of increasing degree of integration of national economies into a global world economy.
Globalisation is not an inevitable process, it is being resisted and there are alternative ways of managing the world's affairs in a just and democratic manner.
Gujarat: Looking Back Looking Forward
ELECTORAL REFORMS IN INDIA
... The growth of a fair democracy depends on fair electoral process. Though we have had elections and elected representatives regularly there is no doubt that there has always been a flawed electoral process, which is increasingly alienated public-spirited citizens from the whole political and electoral process. There are issues to be be addressed like preventing money power, muscle power, organised rigging, eliminating bogus votes and errors in electoral rolls. etc There are also issues which relate to the internal democracy in political parties, measures to limit campaign expenditure, issue of voters identity cards and integration of the electronic revolution in the electoral process ...
THE LONG HAUL
On 18th January 1982 the two and a half lakh workers of Bombay's 60 textile mills went on strike. For the next 18 months they defied all predictions of early defeat. Disregarding conventional wisdom they refused to retreat. This effort resulted in the biggest and longest strike in the history of India.
Yet, a struggle of such magnitude rapidly faded from popular memory. Those who remembered dismissed it as a failure. But was it a failure?
This is the story of thousands who once stood on the threshold of a new tomorrow and dreamt about changing destiny. It is an account of why the struggle was waged and how the dream faded but survived.
WOMEN WORKERS
* Introduction
* Constitution of India
* National Guidelines in India - Government
* Relevant International Instruments Ratified or Acceded to by India
* A Brief Note On Labour Legislation In India
* Women Workers & Law
* Policy and Law Relating to Women's rights at the Workplace
* Critical areas of concern and recommendations for Legal Interventions
* Rights of women at workplace: The legal regime in India at a glance-Table
* Legislation relating to creches
* Types of Women Workers
* Women Workers - Worked related health problems
* Schemes for Women-Workers
* Self Help Groups (SHG)
* Other articles related to women workers
* CED Catalogue Search/Other articles related to Women Workers
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LABOUR LAWS IN INDIA
RAPE
Rape is not just a crime- it is a sacrilege to the dignity of womanhood. The Indian Law on rape is essentially a law which looks at the issue of rape from the male viewpoint. In other words, it is lacking in sensitivity to the cry of women for justice and compassion and understanding. Rarely does a woman who is raped, report to the police. One has only to read the law on rape, and to witness the treatment meted out by the police officials, to understand why this is so.
What constitutes the crime of Rape?
According to Section 375of the IPC, when a man has sexual intercourse with a woman.........
* against her will ;
* with her consent, when her consent has been obtained by putting her/any person in whom she is interested, in fear of death or hurt;
* with her consent, when he by deception, makes her believe that he is her lawful husband;
* with her consent, given on account of her unsoundness of mind, or intoxication, which she is incapable of understanding the consequences of her consent; or
* with or without her consent, when she is under sixteen years of age;....he is said to have committed rape. ..
POLITCS of COTTON & GANDHIAN ECONOMICS
... 1998 was marked by suicides of over 300 cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh. This raises a lot questions about the sustainability of cotton farming. Causes of these disastrous deaths have been analysed in terms of failure of extension mechanisms, unavailability of credit, and specific conditions of Andhra Pradesh ...
This Digest is the Politics of Cotton in relation to the Gandhian views on Science and Technology
- Notes on the outcomes
- interviews & Events
- Notes during COP17
- Watch footage at http://www.justin.tv/oneclimate2
Urban Communities and Climate Change Pilot Study
CED has taken up this short-term study that focuses on the vulnerability of urban marginalised communities to Climate Change.
Resources for NGOs
