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Sumedha Pal
Jharkhand: Adivasi Resistance Against Netarhat Firing Range Continues Even After 27 years
26 Mar 2021
The struggle against the range has been ongoing from the 1990s, when the Centre had earmarked about 1,471 sq km in Netarhat Hills in Gumla and Latehar for field firing practice by the army, which…
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‘Ecotourism Will Reduce Adivasis to Workers on Their Own Land’
22 Mar 2021
The Centre is likely to propose a new set of guidelines for ecotourism projects which are aimed at opening up remote wildlife areas to tourism projects and will allow for the creation of non-…
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Odisha: ‘Police Ensuring Movement of Coal, Arresting Tribals,’ Activists Allege
18 Mar 2021
The movement against the expansion of the Kulda coal mines has been ongoing since January. Several Adivasis have been taken into preventive custody and later released as the cycle of protests over…
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Jharkhand: As Pathalgadi Movement Resurfaces Families of Those Arrested Continue Fighting for Release
15 Mar 2021
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren had used the movement as a major poll plank and had announced that all cases related to the movement had been withdrawn. However, an RTI had said that 60% of the cases had…
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Tribal Women Facing State Violence Under Garb of Naxalism in Chhattisgarh: Soni Sori
27 Feb 2021
A young tribal woman was reportedly found dead in the police officer’s guest house in Karli on February 23 and was claimed to be a Maoist cadre by the police, but her family members and activists…
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MP: Protests Erupt After no FIR in Case of Attack on Tribal Women by Alleged RSS Members
18 Feb 2021
A tribal family was attacked in December last year on the pretext of religious conversion. Following the incident an Adivasi woman suffered a miscarriage. Despite repeated appeals by the community,…
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Odisha: Adivasi Activists Arrested for Kulda Mines Expansion Protests
16 Feb 2021
The adivasi villagers from Sundargarh district have been protesting against the clearance given to Kulda mines for expansion stating that coal mining activity is creating a path of destruction for…
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We Will Be Pushed to Brink of Poverty, Say Chhattisgarh Tribals as Opposition Against Bodhghat Project Mounts
10 Feb 2021
The adivasi residents from over 50 villages have been resisting the establishment of the Bodhghat dam project for years, however, Chief Minister Baghel says that the project will go on.
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Chhattisgarh: Tribal Protests Intensify in Hasdeo Aranya Forest over Allocation of Land for Mining
23 Jan 2021
On December 24, the Centre issued a notification for acquiring over 700 hectares of land in tribal-dominated Korba district of Chhattisgarh, leading to widespread anger on the ground.
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Chhattisgarh: Tribal Families Continue to Face Evictions Despite Land Claims
07 Jan 2021
In Udta village of Korba district, food crops of tribal farmers were destroyed during the lockdown with a fence put around it by the forest department in a bid to keep the community out of the area.