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The Hindu
April 13, 2018
When we called on Divisional Engineer Srinivas, he was rude to us and said he did not need anyone's permission to cut down the trees,” said P. Veerabhadra Rao, an advocate and RTI activist. Mr. Rao said they would approach the Green Tribunal with regard to the issue. “The State government has beenÃâà...
Economic Times
April 13, 2018
Activists in Tamil Nadu have been demanding the setting up of a Cauvery Management Board (CMB) to oversee implementation of water release in the ... The Supreme Court, which heard review petitions against the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's final verdict on water distribution between Karnataka,Ãâà...
HamiltonNews
April 13, 2018
The cornerstone philosophy of the tribunal is the municipality will be responsible for defending and upholding its own planning principles. ... improvements without dealing with the core problems of the agency could leave a bitter taste for those activists who demanded the province reshape how councillors and developersÃâà...
Economic and Political Weekly
April 13, 2018
Activists claim the law to be a failure, stating that the small number of cases booked and tried are only the tip of the iceberg. A People's Tribunal. Against this backdrop, political parties and human rights organisations in the state together established the Collective for Abolition of Usury. On 10 DecemberÃâà...
New Zealand Herald
April 11, 2018
Activist Martyn Bradbury has a case before the Human Rights Review Tribunal but faces a long wait to get a verdict. .... A briefing from the Ministry of Justice to Little and Associate Justice Minister Aupito William Sio - who is responsible for tribunals - said it would take two chairs four years to clear theÃâà...
The New Indian Express
April 10, 2018
CHENNAI : With the constitution of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) getting delayed due to legal wranglings, activists are demanding that the Supreme Court ensure release of water to Tamil Nadu from the Cauvery as per the monthly schedule prescribed by the Cauvery Water Disputes TribunalÃâà...
CBC.ca
April 3, 2018
... the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT). Meantime, older cases that predate the change will still be heard by the OMB. Andy Gort, the president of The South Eglinton Ratepayers' and Residents' Association (SERRA), says it's about time the OMB disappeared, largely because the board had the powerÃâà...
Business Standard
March 27, 2018
Hundreds of Bharitya Kisan Union (BKU) activists today gheraoed the district magistrate office here to protest against the ban on old diesel vehicles. The protest was against the National Green tribunal's order which bans diesel vehicle over 10 years old to ply in the national capital region. The activists ledÃâà...
Deccan Herald
March 27, 2018
The activists say the clearance was "illegal" since the ministry has called it a Category 'B' project, for which Environmental Impact Assessment is not necessary, despite the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal cancelling the previous nod and asking the INO to apply for fresh clearance under.
Lexology
March 26, 2018
Australian companies are on the eve of a new age of corporate activism. New protections for whistleblowers who go public about serious corporate misconduct are among the key provisions proposed by the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Bill 2017. Here are the fiveÃâà...
Amnesty International
March 26, 2018
Malagasy authorities should quash the two-year suspended jail sentence handed in 2017 to an environmental activist who was targeted for questioning the ... Environmental activists are often jailed in Madagascar for raising concerns about questionable business practices and their environmental impacts,Ãâà...
Scroll.in
March 23, 2018
But opinions are divided among activists. Farmer and social activist Oyar Gao, general secretary of the Siang People's Forum, an indigenous farmers' group from the state, denounced the amendment, saying it would lead to more tribal people being dispossessed. “Not everyone will be able to pay for theÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 20, 2018
“As Moroccan citizens and activists, we aim to preserve women's rights through these symbolic hearings,” Cherkaoui added. Cherkaoui further maintains that Moroccan women have yet to attain all their economic rights, as they face more constraints in the labor market than men. In another interventionÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 20, 2018
Another 14 have seen tribunals cancel their pro-BDS resolutions and another two had those resolutions suspended by an injunction pending a final court ruling. “Having suffered crippling losses in court, the BDS movement in Spain is switching methods,” Mas said. “They are targeting individuals in a smearÃâà...
Amsterdam News
March 15, 2018
Saturday, March 3, the December 12th Movement International Secretariat held a historic, citywide tribunal/hearing on “We Ain't Going Nowhere! The Ethnic Cleansing of the Black Community.” The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. community room was filled to capacity with organizers, activists andÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 12, 2018
But the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal would only allow his release if Iran promised to keep him in a secure mental health facility - a condition Iran has ... “They've thrown the key away, put me out of sight, out of mind,” he told the Herald in a telephone interviewed arranged by prisoner rights activists.
Economic Times
March 12, 2018
Lake activists are agitated over the construction and have moved the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the state government. The Whitefield Rising, a citizen group, and sections of residents near Varthur lake have, in their petition, said the MI Department is constructing a roadlike structure on the lakeÃâà...
Infosurhoy
March 8, 2018
The lifting of the X-rating imposed on Inxeba earlier this month by the Film and Publication Board's Appeal Tribunal is only temporarily, pending the outcome of review proceedings before the court, which will be heard on March 28. The various parties opposing the screening of the film at mainstreamÃâà...
PaZimbabwe
March 8, 2018
The tribunal was disbanded in 2012 just after the South Africa civil rights group AfriForum successfully assisted four Zimbabwean farmers, Luke ... “When individual citizens, civil society groups and activists are denied justice in their own countries, they must be able to challenge decisions that may have anÃâà...
The Hindu
March 8, 2018
The Assam government on Wednesday informed the National Green Tribunal that the State government had sanctioned a sum of Rs. 11 crore for the installation ... The directions came while the tribunal was hearing a plea filed by wildlife activist Rohit Choudhary, who opposed the widening of NH-37 whichÃâà...
NewsClick
March 7, 2018
... violence; protection of domestic workers from abuse and exploitation; domestic workers to have access to courts, tribunals, etc.; establishment of a mechanism for regulation of concerned placement agencies. However, activists have been demanding that the government put in place a legislation, insteadÃâà...
Scroll.in
March 7, 2018
... before calling for public consultation, the documents are in contempt of two orders of the National Green Tribunal, said activists in Tamil Nadu. “We are demanding that the plan be withdrawn immediately failing which citizens and fisherfolk will take to the streets,” said social activist Nityanand Jayaraman.
The Telegraph
March 6, 2018
Ranchi: A six-member team headed by Rita Saha, a senior scientist of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)'s regional directorate in Bengal, began touring Hazaribagh and Koderma on Monday following a directive by the National Green Tribunal on an ongoing case filed by activist-cum-advocate SatyaÃâà...
News24
February 28, 2018
The Pretoria High Court is to rule on the jurisdiction of the Southern African Development Community Tribunal in South Africa. .... This question has enormous implications for civil society groups, activists and citizens in SADC countries and their ability to challenge decisions which may have an impact onÃâà...
The Hindu
February 28, 2018
Health activist Dr. Abhijit More of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan said technically, the tribunal was correct. “The MCI code may not govern pharma companies. But there are ethical problems as it directly affects patients”, he said. “The companies should also have a code of ethics”, said Dr. More. Freebies and favoursÃâà...
CTV News
February 21, 2018
MONTREAL -- Social activists are denouncing a Quebec government practice that cuts off welfare payments if recipients leave the province for a week or more. ... She was among several people who demonstrated Wednesday in front of a Montreal building that houses the province's administrative tribunal,Ãâà...
Seattle Globalist
February 21, 2018
One activist performs a blessing ritual on another person about to visit detainees at the Northwest Detention Center on Sunday. (Photo by Gavin Amos-Lopez.) ... At the Northwest Detention Center, five local community activists sat in judgement for the tribunal on ICE. Before the tribunal, the judges visitedÃâà...
The Fifth Estate
February 19, 2018
A decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal that allowed a developer in High Street, Preston in the Melbourne's north to override a local council decision and push forward with higher and denser development has infuriated some people. An article by local resident Justin Passaportis in ourÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
December 31, 1999
The activist has just stormed out of a National Environment Tribunal sitting, after the panel opted to enforce a ruling that will allow the China Road and Bridge Company to complete sections of the ... Despite enduring severe health issues, the activist has managed to make a mark through court cases.
Moneycontrol.com
December 31, 1999
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi has advocated setting up a national children's tribunal, on the lines of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), to deal with cases of crime against children in a time-bound and expeditious manner. Citing recent incidents of sexual abuse of minor girls, the child rights activist saidÃâà...
Livemint
December 31, 1999
After the challenge, the matter is scheduled to be heard on Monday at the Kolkata bench of the National Company Law tribunal (NCLT), says the report. ... Hedge fund giant Paul Singer-led Elliot, which has caused several top management exits and selloffs through activist boardroom interventions,Ãâà...
NewsClick
December 31, 1999
“Marielle Franco Presente”: Global Protest Movements Denounce the Assassination of Brazilian Activist ... stated that there will be more young black boys assassinated, and that the abuses by the Armed Forces will be judged by Military Justice, whose tribunals will be made up of other military members.
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
“In 2015, the whole nation was in a shock after the school massacre and politicians felt compelled to pass the amendment to allow military tribunals to work,” Shama Junejo, a rights activist, told VOA. “The nation needs to be taken into confidence [about] what's happening there. Who are the people that areÃâà...
Independent Online
December 31, 1999
The lifting of the X-rating imposed on Inxeba earlier this month by the Film and Publication Board's Appeal Tribunal is only temporarily, pending the outcome of review proceedings before the court, which will be heard on March 28. The various parties opposing the screening of the film at mainstreamÃâà...
VOA Khmer
December 31, 1999
Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge commander, has sought to have the court dissolved and urged the tribunal not to prosecute more ... Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American human rights activist and lawyer who lost both parents to the Khmer Rouge, said such a decision would be aÃâà...
