Farm and Forest

20 years of FRA 2006, J and K appoints Tribal Ministry as Nodal agency

Despite the Union government’s tardy approach since the passage of the historic Forest Rights Act in 2006, states such as Jammu and Kashmir are now taking the lead in securing indigenous land rights. Groups including the Wullar Bachav Front and the All India Union of Forest Working Peoples (AIUWFP) have been engaging with the state administration on the issue

The Right to Life & Livelihood – over 30,000 Adivasis/Forest Dwellers take to the Streets

Several thousand forest dwellers participate in nation-wide protests against...

Every 10th Adivasi of Jharkhand’s Pathalgadi area have been charged with sedition !!

Representatives of several people’s organisations from across Jharkhand gathered...

Protest Mount on Unfair Evictions of Adivasis & Forest Dwellers

Hundreds of members of the All India Union of...

Language Games of Assam: The Mainstream vs the Margins

Recently, in a piece written in an Assam local...

Call to CMs against Evictions of Forest Dwellers

After the February 13 order, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...

A Mountain That Will Not Bow Down To Corporate Loot

On May 15, 2019 Dadi Kadraka, an activist with...

First Fired Upon, Now Criminal Cases Registered Against Tribals in Madhya Pradesh

The Adivasis of Burhanpur have launched an agitation against...

Songs as Her tool, Sonbhadra Forest Rights leader marches on

This is the story of Rajkumari Bhuiya, the woman...

Twelve villages celebrate Shahadat of Sokalo’s son, Admin on its toes

Sokalo, a human rights defender,  resolves to carry forward...

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