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Newsclick Team
India, COVID and the Right to Food
15 Jul 2020
Professor Dipa Sinha, from Ambedkar University -Delhi (AUD) and the Right to Food Campaign-India, speaks on the impacts of the COVID lockdown in India on the food and nutrition status of the working…
Newsclick Team
Walden Bello| Is COVID an Opportunity for Food Sovereignty?
15 Jul 2020
Walden Bello, from Focus on the Global South, shows how the COVID-19 crisis exposed the fragility of the present corporate and free trade driven food supply system.
Newsclick Team
Cash Transfers Won’t Work: Dipa Sinha
30 Jun 2020
Economist Dipa Sinha, who is a professor with the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, in Delhi, told NewsClick that this is the right opportunity for the government to strengthen the…
Newsclick Report
MP: Children, Pregnant Women Badly Affected in Lockdown, Reveals Survey
08 Jun 2020
The survey was conducted by Bhopal-based NGO in 122 villages of six districts of Madhya Pradesh between March 25 to May 10.
Newsclick Report
Don’t Extend Lockdown Beyond May 3, Activists Urge Govt, Citing Acute Economic Distress
25 Apr 2020
Reportedly, 270 people have died due to hunger, exhaustion, state violence, suicides and inability to access healthcare due to the lockdown.
Rosamma Thomas
Rajasthan HC Ruling puts Question Mark over ID Proof for Access to Services
23 Apr 2020
Even though Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act last year, there are no rules for its implementation as yet.
Newsclick Team
Not Only Food, Poor Have Right to Dignified Life: Jean Dreze
11 Apr 2020
Large numbers of poor people, including migrant workers and senior citizens, are not receiving relief at present
Ravi Kaushal
COVID-19: Ten Pooris for Six People; How an Unplanned Lockdown Failed Migrant Workers
10 Apr 2020
‘When we heard that the Bihar government was serving food in the locality, we decided to go there but when we went out, the police started beating us. We do not have many utensils. So, now one person…
Jyotsna Singh
No Food on Plate for TB Patients Due to Non-implementation of Govt Aid
24 Mar 2020
Even after 11 months, Sayera Bano, suffering from TB of spine, has not received a single instalment of the government nutrition programme despite having a registered number from NTEP’s Ghaziabad…
Sumedha Pal
COVID-19: ‘Stop Evictions, Distribute food,’ Say Unions, Workers Worst Affected
21 Mar 2020
Workers right’s networks and unions across India are urging the central government to take immediate steps to ensure minimum damage to informal workers.