- SDG 14 is ‘Life Below Water :Plastic pollution. Increasing levels of debris in the world’s oceans are having a major environmental and economic impact. Marine debris impacts biodiversity through entanglement or ingestion
- SDG 14 is ‘Life Below Water :Coastal waters are deteriorating due to pollution and eutrophication. Without concerted efforts, coastal eutrophication is expected to increase in 20 percent of large marine ecosystems by 2050.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Ocean acidification has increased significantly in recent decades. Open Ocean sites show current levels of acidity have increased by 26 per cent since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Oceans absorb about 30 per cent of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Oceans provide key natural resources including food, medicines, biofuels and other products. They help with the breakdown and removal of waste and pollution, and their coastal ecosystems act as buf
International Human Rights Day
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International Human Rights Day
The moral principles and the norms that describe the standards of human beings are to be known as Human Rights. In an easy way to understand clearly human rights are the fundamental rights which are inherently entitled for all human beings. Every individual can enjoy their human rights everywhere and all the time. These human rights are same for everyone.
The first and the foremost sentence in the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is – “All human beings are born free and possesses equal status and equal rights in the society.”
The Substantive Rights are the basic human rights possessed by every individual includes Right to life, Right to freedom from torture, slavery, Right to Equality, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of thought, religion, and moral sense, Freedom of Movement, Right against Exploitation, Cultural and Educational Rights etc.
India is the world’s largest sovereign, secular, socialistic, democratic republic and also one of the largest populated countries in the world it is a complicated issue to secure the fundamental rights of its citizens because of lack of proper education, diverse culture and widespread poverty. Our country has an independent judiciary to look into the issues of human rights.
World Wide Activities
• Since 2003, nearly ten Human Rights Defenders Policy Forums are supporting the courageous works all over the world to strengthening the International Human Rights System.
• In the year 2015, online forum were started to promote the girls and women rights by featuring the success stories by hosting the video discussions and roundtable conferences.
This year according to the Human Rights report that India has serious human rights concerns and the government is undertaking certain actions against these issues and repeal laws and security forces from prosecution for abuses.
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Aamani