India drops plan to let forest officials use force after protests
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation India has dropped plans to give forest officials the right to use force against Indigenous people and open up more land for commercial plantations after nationwide protests. Proposed amendments to a century-old Indian Forest Act aimed to give officials the power to arrest and shoot at encroachers and earmark more land […]
INDIA: ENSLAVED FOR DECADES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FREED BY LAND TITLES
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
India’s top court orders eviction of more than one million forest dwellers
Thomson Reuters Foundation India’s Supreme Court has ordered the eviction of more than one million Indigenous people and others who live in forests, after the Federal Government failed to defend a law aimed at protecting their rights. The top court’s order, dated 13th February and delivered in written form on Wednesday, was in response to […]