New Delhi, India – More than 2,500 indigenous people and forest dwellers held a demonstration in the Indian capital on Thursday, days before the Supreme Court is due to begin a final hearing of ...

Forest dwellers in Kashmir are pinning their hopes on the implementation of a 14-year-old law to save their land and homes, ... Despite coming into force in other Indian states, ...

These and other Indian movements resulted in the passage of progressive laws promoting ... (FRA) of 2006, a product of legal and political struggle by forest dwellers across the country ...

The evictions heightened tensions in a region already bristling with anger at Indian rule. In remote Kanidajan in central Kashmir, 45-year-old Biya Bano said forest guards warned her husband and eight ...

COIMBATORE: A Kotagiri-based activist, Yukesh Saravanan, who is also the convenor of the UN Convention to Combat ...

Is the Forest Rights Act less important for forest dwellers? On the whole, the Indian government has been indifferent to enforcing the law. So, NGOs have shouldered the task of helping forest ...

In the Sundarbans, whose 3,700-square-mile mangrove forest is the world's largest, families scrape by as stubborn rice farmers, overmatched fishermen and barefoot honey collectors.

Nomad forest dwellers in Indian-administered Kashmir are pinning their hopes on the implementation of a 14-year-old law to save their land and homes, ...

Last month, the forest department of the Indian-administered territory published a list of about 63,000 people it says are living and farming illegally on a total of 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres ...

Forest dwellers rearing livestock in the village of Budgam in Kashmir, India, December 4, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Athar Parvaiz. ... Despite coming into force in other Indian states, ...