Farm and Forest

As mining lobby “hijacks” Ajmer public hearing, “tokenism” on Aravallis condemned

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan has raised serious questions on the tokenisms behind the recent public hearings on the Aravallis, and condemned the “hijacking” of the process by the “mining lobby”

India ratifies, but doesn’t adopt UN Resolution on farmers’ rights?

India was made a member of the UN Human Rights Council soon after the adoption of this Resolution, in October 2018. However, India has not adopted it.

Nation continues agitation against anti-people laws

As the National Protest Day draws closer, workers, farmers, marginalised intensify their agitation against the undemocratic Central Bills.

MSP for farmers: Exposing the lies of the Modi government

Fact checking claims and figures floated by the regime to obfuscate how its latest policies and bills threaten the wellbeing of Indian farmers

Voices of dissent course through the country

Thousands of people came together to decry anti-labour, anti-farmer and anti-people laws passed by the Centre in recent days.

False narratives cannot fill a farmer’s empty stomach

Representatives of farmers talk about the importance of MSPs, the manipulation of MSP data at the government-level and the injustice of the three agriculture Bills.

EXCLUSIVE! Protecting  the rights of small farmers, the Right to Food of all citizens

Creating a Food Sovereign, Food Self Reliant India (Atma nirbhar Bharat)

No Hitler-shahi in India: Rights organisations protest in Delhi

Various sections of society came together in Delhi to assert Constitutional rights and stand in solidarity with the farmers of India.

Freedom Park: Where the marginalised unite

1,500 to 2,000 farmers protested on the streets of Bengaluru against the three agriculture Bills introduced by the government.

The end of Parliament Democracy: Farmers’ Unions decry passage of Agri Bills in RS

As protests continue against the anti-farmer Bills, the impunity with which the Upper House of the Parliament passed three key bills dubbed 'anti-farmer', is truly shocking.

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The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship

Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech

Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12

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Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll

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Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team

The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted