May 15, 2020Inaugural Session:TM Thomas Issac: Minister of Finance, Kerala StateAruna Roy: Social Activist, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)Prabhat Patnaik: Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityVandana Shiva: NavdanyaModerator: Leo Saldanha, Environment Support Group WATCH VIDEO...
Date Topic Speakers/Moderator May 15, 20202-4 pm Inaugural TM Thomas Issac: Minister of Finance, Kerala StateAruna Roy: Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan Prabhat Patnaik: Professor Emeritus, JNUVandana Shiva: Navdanya Moderator: Leo Saldanha May 19, 202011-1...
Press Release| Bangalore| Dated: 13th May 2020 As the nation and the world struggles with the unplanned lockdown imposed to fight COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet Ministers have been promoting a...
Local group Srijan Lokhit Samiti along with other CSO’s write to the US Exim Bank demanding accountability for financing the disastrous Project On April 10, 2020, the fly ash dam for the Sasan coal...
Civil society organizations from around the world have been campaigning and advocating for a more responsible, human rights-oriented, and sustainable development finance model.Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) lend money to governments and private actors in...
Organisations say this method of communication is likely to continue even after lockdown ends. Cultural organisations and NGOs are increasingly turning to webinars or online seminars to get their message across and the response...
About the speaker:Shalmali Guttal is the Executive Director of Focus on Global South. She is with Focus from 1997 and has worked in India, the United States, and mainland Southeast Asia. Since 1991, she...
About the speaker:Dr.T Sundararaman is a public health expert, he is former executive director of the National Health Systems Resource Centre, and former dean of School of Health System Studies at the Tata Institute...
About the speaker:Soumya Dutta is Co convenor of South Asian Peoples Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC) and member of advisory board of the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network. He is a people science...
About the speaker:Kiruba Munusamy is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She is a social, political and judicial activist striving for social justice by eliminating all forms of discriminations, oppressions and...
About the speaker:Leo F. Saldanha is full-time Coordinator and also Trustee of ESG. He has gained wide-ranging experience in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralisation, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights...
About the speaker:Gautam Mody is the General Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI) of India. He was with Kamani Employees union in Mumbai. NTUI was formed when several independent trade unions in the...
In a statement issued on Tuesday (March 24) the Coalition for Environmental Justice in India (CEJI) said that the COVID-19 outbreak demands an immediate and comprehensive response if we are to limit and arrest...
