TWO-DAY WEBINAR ON MIGRANT WORKERS AND URBAN GOVERNANCE: RESPONSIBILITIES OF URBAN LOCAL BODIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS Recent spread of a deadly pandemic like COVID-19 has exposed the foundational lacunas in the system which led to mass exodus of the migrant workers rushing back to their hometowns. Desperate to leave the urban areas and to reach
Sharon Mathew, Associate Litigator Legal Initiative for Forests and Environment (LIFE) The 3,860km arc like land mass lying to the immediate south of the Sahara desert and stretching east-west across the breadth of the African continent, popularly known as the ‘Sahel’ region of Africa, has become our window into the future of how and to