India

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2018

• Women and plantations: When violence becomes invisible

• Marching forward: Women, resistance and counter-power:

• India: stop evictions from tiger reserves!

2017

• What does rights of rivers mean?

• The Green Invasion: Promoting Plantations in India

• Southeast Asia: Strengthening resistance beyond boundaries

• India: Odisha government must not ignore forest rights claims on POSCO project site  

• India: BBC investigation reveals deadly toll of shoot-to-kill policy in tiger reserves

• Forest in India’s North East

• Biodiversity offsetting and biodiversity corridors in Asia: Nature destruction and protection acting in tandem

2016

• Update on POSCO’s harassments in Odisha India

• India: The Parliament violates forest people’s rights and promotes further plantations

• India: annulling rights to allow mining

2015

• Why are we in jail? A women’s fight against injustice and domination in India

• Stop privatizing India’s Forests!

• Movement update of resistance against POSCO in Odisha, India

• Learning from India’s Chipko movement: fighting for feminism and for the environment

• India: Slavery and child labour in granite quarries

• India: Appeal to the government and the UN on indigenous forest communities’ rights

• Deforestation funds more plantations: The new Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill in India

2014

• The Asian Development Bank’s infrastructure-led ‘growth’ in India and the Mekong region (1)

• Indian Forest Struggles: the quest for alternatives

• India: Struggles against POSCO’s steel plant in Odisha are determined to continue until company withdraws

• India: Forest struggles at the crossroads

• India: Appeal to the government of India and to the UN on Development, Rights & Biodiversity in Forest Communities to protect indigenous rights

• India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk

• Caravan for climate justice, gender and food sovereignty across Bangladesh, India and Nepal,

2013

• The Sentinelese – the world’s most isolated tribe?

• Indian organizations declared all the Tiger Reserves in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserves as illegal

• India: The Uttarakhand tragedy is not natural

• India: Steel-making POSCO strikes again

• BRICS, development and land grabbing

• Andaman Islands, India: Jarawa people turned into a “tourist attraction”

2012

• India: Michelin factory menaces forest of the “untouchables”

• Gathering support for Indian forest communities at the CDB

2011

• Mega-projects and the criminalization of struggles to defend people’s rights in India and Honduras

• India: Women take the lead in the fight for their rights over forest

• India: Tribal women of Kaimur plant native trees to protest JICA-funded government tree plantation drive

• India: Saving Niyamgiri from mining

• India: Ravaged Landscape, Devastated People – Tales of Hydro Power CDM projects in Himachal Pradesh

• India: POSCO project approved but the struggle continues

• India: Freedom after a century of struggle

• India: Forests and tree plantations under carbon offset schemes

• “Sustainable” mining: a contradiction in terms

2010

• Posco: Bad for India, bad for Uruguay and bad for the climate

• India: Pushing “REDD plus” at the expense of forests and forest dwellers

• India: POSCO mining project halted by people’s opposition but forest clearance still stands

• India: Forest protection is a matter of ecological justice

2009

• Posco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay

• India: Lepchas arrested for opposing mega hydro project T

• India: Jatropha plantations destroy the livelihoods of poor local communities

• India: Dehradun Declaration of forest people

• India: A human chain to defend Niyamgiri Hill from mining

2008

• India: the Police and the Forest Department attack women that fight for their lands

• India: Illegal aluminium refinery in Tribal lands in Orissa

• India: Forest dependent Vangujjars harassed by local government

• India: A Story of Non-Participatory Conservation in the Buxa Tiger Reserve

2007

• India: Implementation of Tribal Forest Rights Act 2006

2002

• India: The need for community control over natural resources

• India: Supreme Court orders closure of a road which threatened the Jarawa’s survival

• India: Road brings death for isolated tribe

• India: Indigenous Peoples and Joint Forest Management

2001

• India: Women more affected than men from deforestation

• India: The Dandeli dam project scandal

• India: Reports of Forest Department involvement in violence against the Adivasi people

• India: Mining ancestral lands for corporate profits

• India: Gender bias and disempowerment in World Bank-funded forestry projects

2000

• The plantation issue in the OED report

• India: Mining and plantations put National Park at risk

• India: Indigenous peoples victims of “conservation” at Rajive Gandhi National Park

• India: an outdated approach to national parks and people

• India: Alleviating poverty through participatory development

1999

• Violence against local fisherfolk in India

• India: people versus nature or World Bank and government versus people?

• India: have Indian foresters learned nothing?

• India: “Gachha bina. (Without trees) . . . jeevana nahi (no life)”

1997

• Mangroves under threat in India

• India: wildlife conservation and people’s rights

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  India: stop evictions from tiger reserves!

  Posted on April 29, 2018

  India: stop evictions from tiger reserves! Hundreds of Baiga people rallied on March 2018 to oppose the authorities’ attempts to evict them from the forests that they have lived in and managed since time immemorial. Joining forces from...

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  Mausam Magazine from India: voices for climate justice

  Posted on December 11, 2015

  The India Climate Justice Collective has released the fifth issue of the “Mausam” magazine. This time the focus is on India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, submitted to the UN Climate Convention in October, to which...

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  Appeal to India and UN on indigenous forest communities’ rights

  Posted on November 15, 2015

  To: – President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee – Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi – Minister of Tribal Affairs of India, Mr. Jual Oram – Minister of Environment,Forests& Climate Change, Mr. Prakash...

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  Stop police brutality, harassment and arrests of oustees of Kanhar Dam Project

  Posted on July 21, 2015

  Aklu Chero, a tribal leader protesting the construction of the dam, was shot at by the police on April 15. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photos) Since April 14, 2015, the oustees of Kanhar Dam Project in the Sonbhadra distrct of the northern Indian...

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  New issue of the Mausam newsletter from India: talking climate in public space

  Posted on May 6, 2015

  The India Climate Justice collective has published the third issue of the Mausam magazine aiming to facilitate constructive and creative debates on climate issues. It attempts to connect these issues to local struggles over natural...

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  First-hand testimony of Andaman tribe reveals sexual exploitation

  Posted on April 5, 2014

  First-hand testimony of Andaman tribe reveals sexual exploitation – In an audio recording obtained by Survival International, a young Jarawa man reports that poachers regularly enter his tribe’s protected reserve and lure young...

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  REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation

  Posted on November 13, 2013

  The Global Forest Coalition launched a new report on ‘REDD+ and the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and forest Degradation’ based on five case studies in Brazil, Colombia, India, Uganda and Tanzania elaborated by national...

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  India – WRM information sheet on GE tree research

  Posted on November 25, 2009

   WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 25 November 2009 Last update: August 2014 Forest tree species being manipulated: Rubber tree Aim of genetic manipulation More rapid growth rate to increase yield Those...

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  Civil Society Organisations Reject World Bank Country Assistance Strategy: Severely Condemn Bank’s Propriety in Influencing Government of India’s Policy

  Posted on August 10, 2004

  PRESS RELEASE –  In a National Consultation held in Delhi on August 7, 2004, several civil society organisations in India including major national alliances on mining, forestry and dams and hydro power, rejected the World Bank’s...

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  Status of Implementation of Forest-Related Clauses in the CBD: An Independent Review & Recommendations for Action

  Posted on March 18, 2002

  Commissioned by the Global Forest Coalition This report is based on 21 country case studies, including Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech republic, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya,Malaysia, the Netherlands, New...

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  India: Plantations uproot women from their customary forests

  Posted on March 7, 2018

  India’s programme to compensate for the destruction of forests for development projects is routinely setting up monoculture tree plantations on community commons. Women, who are mostly affected, are at the centre of its resistance.

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