Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jul 6 2007 (IPS) – The global anti-tobacco movement has just armed itself with tough new language capable of clearing the air at workplaces, restaurants and bars of tobacco smoke.
The breakthrough, secured at a week-long conference here, was endorsed by 146 developed and developing countries. They backed a call for strong guidelines to snuff out second-hand smoke in public areas.
The guidelines will offer national and local governments a road map to establish smoke-free environments in a bid to protect the health of non-smokers and wean smokers away from their habit.
Sound science proves there is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke, Dr. Douglas Bettcher, head of the World Health Organisation s (WHO) Tobacco Free Initia…
Prerna Sodhi is an Indian journalist working with the New Delhi-based Development Alternatives, a sustainable development NGO which aims to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound and economically scalable development outcomes.
CLEAN-India is an environmental assessment, awareness, action, and advocacy programme that promotes behavioural change among young city dwellers in India. As part of the programme, a group of female students learns about the importance of clean water. Credit: Development Alternatives
NEW DELHI, May 16 2015 (IPS) – “Swachh Bharat”, or Clean India, is a slogan that most Indians today associate with the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Mo…
Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.
While most health care workers in the wealthy world were vaccinated early in 2021, only a quarter of Africa’s health workers had received their Covid-19 jabs at the end of last year. Credit: UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye
NEW YORK, Feb 16 2022 (IPS) – Efforts to combat the vast global in access to Covid-19 vaccines just got a boost.…