A SIGNIFICANT number of children in Pakistan participate in waste-picking for economic survival. Our legal framework, unfortunately, is inadequate in this respect and unable to protect and ...

AMMAN — Sixty per cent of children working in waste scavenging in Jordan have suffered injuries while on the job, and 77 per cent report extreme exhaustion, according to a new study released by Save ...

With society on the brink of the sixth industrial revolution, striking a balance between e-waste and sustainability is expected to become a herculean task, writes Natalie Scott. For climate change ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - Police in hazmat gear went back to a home filled with human waste and rodents in Colorado Springs where a child was rescued on Thursday. There were four officers and a ...

SYDNEY – Authorities in Australia are searching for a truck driver who dumped more than two tons of dangerous asbestos waste on a road near two child-care centers. Sydney's city council on Tuesday ...

Child rights activist and Grambangla Unnayan Committee (GUC) Executive Director AKM Maksud drew attention to the issue when reading out the paper at a media advocacy campaign titled “Health and ...

NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has taken cognisance of reports of the involvement of child labour at landfills where e-waste is “irresponsibly” dumped and ...

AHMEDABAD, India, May 29 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - An Indian company said on Monday it would dispose of hazardous waste left over from the world's worst industrial ...

A woman in her 50s has been sentenced to a prison term for abusing her stepdaughter over failing to dispose of food waste after washing dishes. Judge Noh Jong-chan of the Criminal Division 10 Single ...