Campaigning Against “Ship breaking” in India
Greengrants’ India Coordinator Madhumita Dutta’s work on the social and environmental costs of “ship breaking” in India was profiled in the December 1, 2006 issue of Lloyd’s List.
Skoll Foundation Recognizes Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm is profiled in latest Skoll Foundation update.
India: COPDANET Helps to Restore Tsunami-Damaged Mangroves in the Andaman Islands
by Michael Kramer-Duffield The tsunami of December 2004 devastated many coastal areas of South and Southeast Asia. Some of the hardest-hit areas were those in which coastal mangroves had been severely depleted due to overdevelopment and poor resource management, among other reasons. In these mangrove-depleted areas there was little or nothing to buffer the impact […]
India: Pesticide Deaths Prompt New Efforts to Regulate Their Use in India
On September 20, 2001, Enakunthala Ravi died at MGM Hospital in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh, India. He did not die from cancer, old age, or any prolonged sickness. Ravi was a migrant cotton farm worker in the village of Akkampeta, and he died a day after spraying the toxic pesticide methyl parathion, also known as Metacid, for just one hour.