Internet shutdowns: Are we likely to see more in 2024?
Digital rights groups fear a rise in global internet shutdowns in 2024 could threaten fundamental rights in a super-election year. NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Got milk?: Indian camel herders cash in with solar-powered coolers
MOUSHUMI BASU, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how instant milk chillers are boosting pastoralists’ earnings…
Indian child workers’ deaths spur anti-trafficking push
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation India’s Rajasthan state is mounting a major campaign to stop children being trafficked across its borders after three child victims who were rescued from factories died from malnutrition. Extra checkpoints are being set up to stop traffickers and authorities have told police to conduct monthly drives against child labour, according to […]
Australia to return historic Indian artefacts amid investigation
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia will return three culturally significant artefacts to India when Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the country early next year, the Australian Government said on Wednesday. The artefacts were bought in good faith by the National Gallery of Australia from a New York-based art dealer who is currently under investigation, the Prime Minister’s […]
As legal fight over forest rights drags, millions more risk eviction
Udaipur, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Millions of Indigenous people face eviction in India after states stopped processing new land claims under a law that is being challenged in the country’s highest court, land and human rights advocates warned on Friday. Earlier this year, India’s Supreme Court stayed its ruling that ordered the eviction of millions of […]
New hope for child rights after India gets tough on traffickers
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Campaigners hailed new hope for child rights on Thursday after a trafficker who tricked five Indian boys into menial work with the promise of better schooling was awarded a rare life sentence. “This is just the beginning,” Narendra Sikhwal, head of Jaipur’s child welfare committee, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “It […]
India’s tourist magnet starts to clean child labour “blot”
Jaipur, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation In a small windowless room in the heart of Indian tourist magnet Jaipur, Parveena shows a school uniform and tiny shoes to prove that the little boy sitting on the floor, sticking beads on a bangle goes to school and is not a child slave. Parveena, who would only give her […]
INDIA: “WITCHES” BEATEN, BURIED, BURNED FOR LAND IN RAJASTHAN
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the need for greater action to stop attacks on women branded witches in the Indian state of Rajasthan, often in a bid to gain property…