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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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