How to evade a tricky patent call

Five government departments tossed the ball to each other to avoid a decision on revoking a Novartis patent

Limiting HFCs should not be a burden on the developing world

Developing countries should guard against a weak phase-down of the super-warming hydrofluorocarbons in the ongoing Montreal Protocol

Trade-off- human rights and the market

The clarion call of open markets could override the North's 'insistence' on linking trade with human rights and environmental issues

The politics of interventionism

We all recognise that if an international force on the scale proposed is committed to Somalia, against the opposition of the loco] warlords, …

2004 diary: Kriti

Wars, communal carnages, human rights violations galore, the untrammeled march of global capitalism: 2003 was a bleak year for all yearning for a …

"We have won against the army"

Muhammad Ali Shah has been crusading for the rights of fisherfolk for the past three decades. Presently he heads the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (…

Bamboo now a minor forest produce

Grassroots victory

FRA emboldens tribals in Dudhwa to demand control over grass

Forest rights

SC takes stock of Forest Rights Act

Touch that heals trees

Court allows forest pattas in Andhra

Centre stops work at POSCO site

Committee reports violation of tribal and forest rights

Tribals challenge forest department

For mining Tadoba tiger reserve

Critical Wildlife Habitat guidelines issued; NTCA order superseded  

Forest rights activists criticise Ministry of Tribal Affairs' decision to accept the guidelines without making any revisions or inviting comments …

'Village forests have been pitted against community rights'

The proposed amendment of IFA is an attempt to keep power in the hands of the forest bureaucracy by playing up village forests against community …

'Sir… if we define forests, it could create many loopholes'

Union forest ministry’s reply to parliamentary committee’s query on absence of a clear definition of forests  

IFR review: Here are some possible repercussions of rejecting reviewed forest right claims

Some 1.688 million people, whose claims have been re-rejected, face threat of eviction and food security

Death in the devil’s paradise

British colonial history is tainted by its involvement in rubber collection from the Peruvian Amazon, writes Survivor International

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

Split approach

Like neighbours

Maharashtra muddies bamboo rights

Activists say forest department trying to dilute Forest Rights Act

Classification under SC, ST categories: Recognition needs to go beyond govern-analytics

Bill extending ST status to several communities raises questions regarding the category and its applicability in contemporary times

Bamboo still a distant dream

No village in Maharashtra other than Mendha Lekha has been able to access bamboo