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Course helps Gadchiroli tribals know their forest rights — and win a diploma
Learning how to measure their land, mark boundaries, draw up lists of forest produce and plan secure livelihoods based on these.
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A warning note
A song that is an ultimatum to the authorities that the community will protect what is rightfully theirs
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We need to go beyond self-interest or we’re doomed: Jean Drèze
There is a natural complementarity between research and action which means using non-violent, democratic means to bring about change.
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Where blackbuck are dearer than sons
Some villagers think the animals increase productivity by grazing on their crops.
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What does rights of rivers mean?
This would require challenging government agencies, international “development” views and re-thinking the basic ethics of our societies.
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What We Can Learn From the Young Woman Who Has Rocked the Madhya Pradesh Police
Taking on the system at every level – administrative, social and cultural – this young survivor of sexual assault is a brilliant survivor.
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Listen, the revolution blooms in silence
A timely and evocative missive from a monthly workers’ newspaper distributed widely in the industrial belt around Delhi.
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Summary of Rivers And Human Rights: We Are The River, The River Is Us?
The significance of the Uttarakhand High Court's judgment declaring that the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are separate legal entities with specific rights
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Rivers and Human Rights: We are the River, the River is Us?
What does it mean for a river to have rights? What are the implications for the rivers, those living in/on/along them, and for the rest of nature?