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UNICEF

Youth, children suggest means to protect Sunderbans

More than 700 students of schools, colleges and universities gathered to participate in a 'Youth Conclave on Climate Action' organised by UNICEF to sensitise young people who would face the worst effects of climate change.

The case for a ban ~I

A recent UNICEF report titled “Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children” revealed very disturbing facts.

Digital Blind Spot

India prohibits Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) under strong laws like the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, yet ignores the alarming issue of children accessing adult pornography and being exposed to it at a very young age ~ a serious legal and moral gap.

Will water become the new oil ?

Scarcity alone doesn't seem to be the reason. Poverty, inequalities in income and power contribute primarily for this fear

The Offsets Scam

In many cases, credits claimed due to deforestation were being made on the basis of preventing the felling of trees by arguing that this is enabling the protected trees to absorb extra carbon a very grey argument as most the deforestation activities on the basis of which the said credits were claimed were those related to trees that were under no threat at all. In many other cases, various other kinds of manipulations were being done in which the buyers of credit as well as credit agencies have been complicit