Eye opener

Book>> Land Acquisition, Displacement and Resettlement in Gujarat, 1947-2004 by Lancy Lobo and Shashikant Kumar Sage, 2009 Rs 895

When the land shouts

Van Gujjars in the Shivalik foothills vociferously claim managing authority of the Rajaji National Park

Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

Simply put: Development, non-development & displacement

Simply Put: Land mines

Bangladesh ravaged by floods

Even as annual monsoon floods devastate Bangladesh, a plan formulated by the World Bank to prevent flooding is bogged down in controversy

Twice ousted

Burnt fingers

It is a great shame when the World Bank tells us how to rehabilitate our people

MP project opposed

PEOPLE FIRST

Forced migration

A disaster the world prefers to forget

Faulted for raising a banner

At the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul, Payal Parekh and her colleague Ann-Kathrin Schneider were deported. She spoke with Bharat Lal Seth

POSCO enhances compensation package

Activists want steel plant to shift site

It's a damp squib

Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic-Christian thought dominate the report

A monumental failure

The report on the Sardar Sarovar does not address crucial issues like water-saving technologies, lowering the dam height and reducing the size of …

Land of sufferance

People of a village in Orissa wage a battle against mining companies to protect their lands

Displacing a livelihood

How do we rehabilitate development project oustees?

Caught in a crossfire

A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists' ire

Sea change

Dam construction facilitates

Taken at the flood

Averse engineering

Trapped! Between the Devil and Deep Waters The Story of Bihar's Kosi River by Dinesh Kumar Mishra People's Science Institute, Dehradun and South …

Statehood first, ecology later

Jharkhand's leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not …

Forced resettlement violates people's rights

The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts a resolution that will have direct bearing on the controversial Narmada clam in Gujarat.

Submerged by dams

A question of rights

A NGO asks the NHRC to prevent the dislocation of Van Gujjars of the Rajaji National Park by the Uttar Pradesh government