Indigenous Peoples' Struggles

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Bulletin articles 25 October 2023

Oil palm plantations through contract farming and a new Forest Amendment Law threaten India’s North-East forests

Land related struggles in India’s Northeast states might worsen with the push to expand oil palm plantations on small-farmers and Indigenous land, threatening their food sovereignty and the ancestral practice of Jhum (shifting cultivation). On top of this, a new Forest Amendment Law will facilitate this expansion, jeopardizing further the region’s forests and Indigenous Peoples.
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Bulletin articles 17 September 2007

Indigenous Peoples on the road to justice

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Bulletin articles 24 March 2007

India: Indigenous movement in Jharkhand challenge plans for industrial development that threatens to destroy Adivasi forests, farmlands and way of life

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Bulletin articles 26 February 2007

India: The Forest Rights Act, a weapon of struggle

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Bulletin articles 5 June 2006

India: Joint Parliamentary Committee Report - A Victory for the Struggling Forest People

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Bulletin articles 6 May 2006

India: End of Forest Evictions? New Forest Bill

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Bulletin articles 7 April 2006

Creating ‘manageable’ forests: Plantations and Plantation Workers in India

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Bulletin articles 8 January 2006

India: Adivasis shot dead defending their land against takeover to Tata Steel

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Bulletin articles 12 October 2005

India: Adivasis and forest management

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Bulletin articles 20 May 2005

India: A controversial draft bill deciding on forest-dwellers’ fate

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Bulletin articles 27 October 2004

India: Wave of poaching and exploitation hits isolated tribes

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Bulletin articles 29 July 2004

India: Welcome to Mowgli's Land