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

Under the Modi Regime, India’s Environment is Under Assault

All democratic forces, all those concerned about environmentally sound...

Police Brutally Assault Adivasi Forest Workers: Sonbhadra, UP

Acute repression against women and children Adivasi women has...

Adivasis Are Not Begging For Charity, But Their Constitutional Rights

Government or the bureaucracy doesn’t consider Adivasis as a...

NHRC finds Untouchability and Caste Based Atrocities still rampant in Gujarat

A bench of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), that was...

The Repellent “New” Idea of India at Work

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Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims Die Earlier Than Other Communities

Mumbai: At 43 years, the mean age of death...

Meagre Funds, No Salary: How Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders Still Succeed

Nachangulam Panchayat, Sivagangai district (Tamil Nadu): What is it...

Why Adivasis seek to re-assert their traditional identity

‘Adivasi history is an unbroken chain of broken promises’:...

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