Habitat rights of Odisha’s tribal group denied; their livelihood also at stake

The bone of contention is the core area of the Similipal Tiger Reserve where the Mankidia tribe eke out a living by collecting Siali fibre

Cannot evict tribals from tiger reserves without their consent: NCST

Earlier, NTCA rejected forest rights under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in tiger reserves

Rightful or rightless: Forest villagers in Saranda struggle to shed ‘illegal’ tag

Jharkhand forest department refuses to recognise rights of occupants of forest villages like Marchi gada in West Singhbhum

IFR review: States do dubious paperwork, cite baseless reasons for refusing forest rights to tribals, DTE finds

IFR claimants are being used as bait to prove that tribal communities clear forest land for cultivation, experts feel

Forest Rights Act: A litmus test for govt to protect forest dwellers

It is now the turn of the BJP-led central government, which won 38 out of 48 reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes across the country, to stand by …

100 gram sabhas in Odisha’s Kalahandi district to assert rights on bamboo, kendu

In Odisha, both these commodities are nationalised, thereby curtailing the rights of the people on them

Himachal Pradesh launches eviction drive, ignores forest rights of tribal farmers

More than 10,000 plots across the state’s forest areas have been identified for eviction

Baiga Tribes Get Habitat Rights for the first time in Independent India

Ramesh Sharma, Convener, Ekta Parishad gives an insight about the indigenous primitive tribes of India. Out of 76 primitive tribes Baigas …

‘Review 150,000 forest rights claims rejected without reason’

Procedures violated; Rights body demands findings reports for Scheduled Tribe, Other Traditional Forest Dwellers claims

Human Rights Day: How children use their agency to build a safer, greener environment

Young crusaders in the Sundarbans are making efforts to convince community members to plant trees and nurture them so that their future is safeguarded

A decade on, only 40% of FRA claims approved

The latest status report of the FRA says most claims were rejected by either gram sabhas or district committees

New boundaries: How village limits are demarcated for community forest rights

Forest Rights Act recognises community forest resource rights over an area that is traditionally used by the local communities. This is …

88% land conflicts in South Asia remain unsolved; 47% result in violence

Environmental damage was also a common problem, accounting for 29 per cent of cases

Ten asks for the First 100 Days of New Government

Growth needs to inclusive and it needs to happen in a way that rights of communities and rights of future generations are not lost

Web-GIS platform created in Chhattisgarh to resolve conflict while filing CFR claims

Creators admit shortcomings in the platform but say they are not final authority on land rights and boundaries

Ten years of FRA: only 3 per cent of forest dwellers’ rights recognised

Collective rights to undo historic injustice meted out to indigenous people remain completely ignored by the states, says Citizens’ report

Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics

Roughly 15 per cent of the world’s land surface is under official state protection

Custodian violates forest rights

MoEF clears projects in forests without settling land rights of people  

Safer Internet Day 2023: How long will our children surf in murky waters?

Findings of a study conducted by CRY and CNLU published days ahead of the Safer Internet Day found that the online perpetrators made the most of …

Baiga tribals become India’s first community to get habitat rights

The administration used a gazette notification passed by the colonial British government, which recognised these areas as home of the Baigas, to …

Excising mutilation

Inside ad hoc forests

Government failure, both at the Centre and the states, is hurting communities and forests alike

Red tape binds law

Maharashtra villagers don’t even get forms to file forest claims  

Access to justice curbed

Historic win for farmer seed rights: PepsiCo’s IPR on potato variety revoked

Judgement against Pepsico potato variety sets precedent for all seed and food and beverages corporations not to transgress farmers’ seed …