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Mahua (left) and a variety of medicinal rice. Credit (both): Pankaj Oudhia/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

India Has Recognised Forest Rights but Intervention Is Still Necessary

Geetanjoy Sahu and Asavari Raj Sharma 01/05/2018

There is an opportunity to shape the Forest Rights...

Santhal women carrying firewood in the buffer area of Simlipal Tiger Reserve, Odisha. Credit: Eleonora Fanari

To Respect Human Rights, the Government Should Strategise to Coexist First, Not to Evict

Neema Pathak-Broome and Eleonora Fanari 12/03/2018

Helping gram sabhas recognise their rights and discharge their...

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Revisiting Muthamma in Her Little Hamlet Near Coimbatore

Subhashini Ali 25/01/2018

A closer look shows how the lives of poor...

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Mining is in the Way of Adivasi Forest Rights, Not the Other Way Round

Kanchi Kohli 07/06/2016

File notings released by the tribal affairs ministry make...