This is not corporate social responsibility

Corporate social responsibility has generated a lot of buzz in the last half-a-decade, but not as much understanding. These five papers try to …

Mining push continues despite water crisis in Neskantaga First Nation and Ontario’s Ring of Fire

It is exactly the foundation that Canada is built on. It is one of the ways that colonialism not only survives, but thrives

Bihar Elections 2020: A mandate against status quo?

The verdict indicated a tipping point in people’s tolerance for rhetoric; it also exhibited a rare consolidation of the youth 

Mahatma Gandhi, public policy and COVID-19

The Gandhian talisman is important more than ever now in the times of pandemic to steer public policy for those who need it the most  

COVID-19: PM Modi announces 21-day complete lockdown

Union government initiates procurement of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers, bans export

No end to discrimination against Punjab’s Dalit women labourers, says study

A recent study examined 927 Dalit women labour households across four districts. A lot of them reeled under debt, faced sexual harassment 

Tribal women in Odisha attempt mass suicide over rail track construction

The women alleged the track was being constructed without compensating tribals in the area for their land

Yes, I buried my mother in front of my house

A social activist travels to eastern Uttar Pradesh to meet a marginalised community who bury their dead in their front yards because of caste stigma

BJP lost Jharkhand due to tribal anger: Experts

The Raghubar Das government's efforts to grab tribal land to give to industry alienated the community, they said

LPG connections not only success metric: CAG on Ujjwala

Scheme can't be a success without transition to clean fuel through sustained LPG use, auditor says

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 8, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 7, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

ODF India: Is a critical government survey on toilet access, use being withheld?

According to high-level government sources, the survey results contradict the government’s open-defecation free status claim

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 13, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Is child protection a priority in the public budget?

Well-designed interventions for prevention, protection, response & rehabilitation can help India reach the ideal of a comprehensive …

Is America redeeming itself vis-à-vis its First Nations?

The country appointed its first Native American poet laureate and apologised for the genocide of aborigines in its largest and richest state on …

Reforming global governance institutions the Indian way

Multilateralism has not failed; it is the governments of nation states that have miserably failed to carry out the ethos of multilateralism.

New Caledonia riot result of ‘stunted decolonisation’, lack of sovereignty for Pacific’s indigenous peoples: Shubhamitra Das

As New Caledonia in the Pacific burns, DTE speaks with Jawaharlal Nehru University academic to inquire more about what has actually led to the rioting

Femicide: many countries around the world are making the killing of women a specific crime — here’s why it’s needed

UN data shows that, on average, five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family

Environment in elections: Drought not on poll agenda even as north Karnataka records 3rd-lowest rainfall in over 100 years

Region’s people feel things can’t remain same even as other parts of Karnataka have no water problems

Great Nicobar Project clearances violate constitutional mandate, views of tribals ignored: Experts write to NCST

Calculation by project developer of the area that will remain protected as tribal reserve 'flawed', they write

DTE Coverage: Voting without voters

Down To Earth reports from four states on migrant voters and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections

People from which Indian states migrate the most? Answers will surprise you

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh have the highest overall migration rate according to a recent ILO report

Simply Put: Wild humans

Humanitarian crisis in Haiti as the Caribbean’s most populous country may have fallen to armed gangs

Capital Port-au-Prince a ‘city under siege’ as US Marines reportedly evacuate embassy staff