Tag Tribal rights
Palberi adds another no to mining in Niyamgiri Author(s): Sayantan Bera [1] Issue Date: 2013-7-26 Attending Member of Parliament asks Odisha government to include 112 villages Lado Sikaka wants to know what the papers say of the village council… Continue Reading →
Debabrata Mohanty : Kunakadu, Thu Jul 25 2013,IE Rainclouds hung over Niyamgiri hills, but the cloud of uncertainty over Vedanta Alumina’s 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi, deepened further after the fourth pallisabha on… Continue Reading →
ET Bureau Jul 19, 2013, (The exemption is being given…) NEW DELHI: In a bid to speed up development in naxal-affected areas, the environment ministry has decided to exempt public infrastructure projects from seeking forest clearance in 35 additional districts. In May 2011… Continue Reading →
Cancellation of Two Steel Projects by POSCO and Arcelor Mittal has Lessons for Other Projects 5th In-principle Extension of SEZ Status to POSCO Odisha Plant in Seven Years is Illegal Stop Police Terror in Gobindpur Now … Continue Reading →
15 July 2013, Amnesty International Authorities in the Indian state of Odisha (previously Orissa) are excluding Adivasi (indigenous) communities from the process to decide the future of a proposed mining project that could have disastrous effects on their livelihood… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Madhu Ramnath [1] Issue Date: 2013-7-12 While the forest department has been busy working forests for timber, a single man in Bastar holds hope for the many villages that have lost their natural forests The real story, which we have… Continue Reading →
“Huge cheers to friends at Barduari Studios for creating these wonderful online action in which several, who for some reason, could not join offline actions were still able to express their solidarity and resolve to right the wrong.”
Dongria demonstrate at Lanjigarh, 6th Dec 2012 This report comes from Foil Vedanta’s friend in the court room as the Niyamgiri case continues… 19th February 2013, foilvedanta.com Last week, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) filed an affidavit… Continue Reading →
Support for the anti-POSCO resistance: * Korean Civil and Labour organisations condemn State violence on anti-POSCO villagers <http://miningzone.org/archives/1924> * Support Letter by French Civil Society to Anti-Posco Movement <http://http//miningzone.org/archives/1838> * An Open Letter from concerned citizens to the Chief… Continue Reading →
January 15, 2013, By Michael Edison Hayden, Wall street journal, India Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A man peeked through an opening of a door to a prison ward at the Tihar jail, New Delhi, April 26, 2012. This week, India… Continue Reading →