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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...
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Joint Statement denouncing the controversial Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020
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...
Another breach at sasan UMPP; Will financiers be held accountable?
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...
Learning from 10 years of campaigning on financial intermediary lending at the International Finance Corporation
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...
Shutdown forces many institutions to switch to webinars
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...
State power and surveillance in times of lockdown by Shalmali Guttal
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...
What needs to be done to strengthen the public health system in India? by Dr. T. Sundararaman
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...
Breaking Nature’s boundaries: Novel Coronavirus and Climate Crisis by Soumya Dutta
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...
The working class amidst lockdown by Kiruba Munusamy
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...
Decentralised governance and responses to survive COVID-19 securing civil and political rights by Leo Saldanha
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...
Capitalism in times of Corona by Gautam Mody
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...
CEJI statement on COVID-19 and India’s response to the outbreak
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...
Making Sense of Economic Survey 2019-2020
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