Democracy Encountered:Rights Violation in Manipur

Manipur has been home to sustained conflict and an exceptionally high degree of violence and is today amongst the worst affected by the imposition of Armed Forces Special Power Act , 1958.
The political situation in this tiny conflict-affected sate has been all the more explosive ever since the market shootout im Imphal on July [...]

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Independent Citizens Fact Finding Mission to Manipur Imphal, 7th November, ‘09 PRESS RELEASE

Independent Citizens Fact Finding Mission to Manipur
Imphal,
7th November, ‘09
PRESS RELEASE
A team of concerned citizens comprising Dr. K.S. Subramanian, IPS (retd.), formerly of the Manipur-Tripura cadre and currently Visiting Professor, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi, Sumit Chakravartty, Editor, Mainstream, Kavita Srivastava, PUCL National Secretary, and Vasundhara Jairath of Delhi Solidarity Group is on a fact finding [...]

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PUBLIC STATEMENT BY THE SOLIDARITY CONVENTION FOR THE ANTI-MINING AND LAND RIGHTS STRUGGLES IN NIYAMGIRI New Delhi, 10 October 2009

Condemning the attempt of filing contempt case against Advocate Prashant Bhushan
We the undersigned state that it was shameful for Justice S H Kapadia – one of the three-judge Forest Bench that was hearing the Niyamgiri case – to pass an order in the Supreme Court holding that while Vedanta could not be given the license [...]

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Joint Resolution passed

Joint Resolution passed at the
Solidarity Convention for Anti-Mining and Land Rights Struggle in Niyamgiri

10 October 2009, New Delhi
Demanding immediate scrapping of mining permission and ensure protection of peoples’ rights to land, forests, culture, and livelihoods in Niyamgiri, Orissa, India
As recently as 5 October 2009, more than 3000 adivasis, dalits, and others, gathered [...]

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Videos from the protest side

Watch the videos from the protest side:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARmLRY1kZzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liH4-bKFxK8

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FISHWORKERS DELEGATION SCORES CMZ VICTORY

FISHWORKERS DELEGATION SCORES CMZ VICTORY;
Fishworkers to be consulted prior to any new legislation/notification,
Separate Fisheries Ministry under consideration
The Ministry of Environment has agreed to drop the proposal to replace the current “Coastal Regulation Zone” (CRZ) notification with a controversial “Coastal Management Zone” (CMZ) notification. Minister Jairam Ramesh conveyed this to a delegation of the National Fishworkers [...]

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Himalaya Niti Abhiyan interaction with political party representatives

Bilaspur, 11 April 2009 : After two days of intense discussions and deliberations on issues thrown up by the people’s movements resisting and struggling with impacts of the projects promoted under the current economic policies of the government – the Himalaya Niti Abhiyan evolved a detailed charter of demands for political parties and the [...]

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Appeal – Support Bhopal Survivors

Dear Friends,

Urgent Support required by Bhopal Survivors

Reasons: We writing to seek your support to Bhopalis who seem to have again been betrayed by UPA led Gov. Most of you were involved with the recent Bhopal Padyatra and a six month long protest in the capital which concluded in August after an announcement [...]

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National Consultation on the status of Implementation of Forest Right Act

Dear Friends,

Forest Rights Act (formulation of ground rules) has been in operation since 1st January 2008. It is more than one year since it was supposed to be in operation all over the country except J&K. The act was supposed to be an effective tool to empower crores of forest dwelling communities in getting [...]

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