‘We don’t want to die landless’: Kerala’s Adivasis are again agitating for land promised in 2001

Nearly 200 landless Adivasis have been protesting for over a week after they were forcibly evicted from the Thovarimala forest in Wayanad.

TA Ameerudheen

· May 06, 2019 · 09:00 am

Despite nature’s protests, encroachment and illegal construction are rampant in Kerala’s Munnar

The hilly region was severely affected by the August 2018 and 1924 floods and illegal constructions could become an election issue this year.

KA Shaji

· Mar 04, 2019 · 01:30 pm

In Jammu and Kashmir, Gujjars and Bakerwals grow anxious after the repeal of Roshni Act

The poor tribal communities anyway have few land rights. Now, they fear eviction from lands they have lived and grazed their livestock on for generations.

Safwat Zargar

· Dec 13, 2018 · 09:00 am

Despite court order, Tamil Nadu government is flouting land acquisition law for highway project

It has started work on a resettlement and rehabilitation plan without a social impact assessment in consultation with local people.

S Senthalir

· Oct 04, 2018 · 09:00 am

For Tamil Nadu highway project, government is using police to acquire farmland

The frequent arrests and detentions of farmers opposing the project has created fear in five districts.

S Senthalir

· Oct 02, 2018 · 09:00 am

In battles over land rights, activists are being branded as criminals, says UN report

Last year, more than 200 activists were killed, the highest since 2002.

Karla Mendes, Thomson Reuters Foundation News

· Aug 29, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Marginalised for years, Taiwan’s indigenous people are demanding their rights to ancestral land

Taiwan’s indigenous people make up about 2% of its 23.5 million people and are poorer, less educated and more jobless than their Chinese counterparts.

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jun 14, 2018 · 09:30 pm

‘We will save our village’: In Kerala, a road project pits the CPI(M) against its supporters

The fight is between protection of the environment and livelihoods and development.

TA Ameerudheen

· Mar 18, 2018 · 07:30 am

In Gujarat, it took a tragedy for two Dalits to get their land titles. Many more are still waiting

Dalit anger is rising over the long wait for government land allotments, which resulted in an activist setting himself ablaze last week.

Aarefa Johari

· Feb 26, 2018 · 09:00 am

In Bihar, a land programme for Dalits improved many lives – until Nitish Kumar allied with the BJP

His government has eased off on Dakhal Dehani, which seeks to help Dalits reclaim their occupied land, allegedly to please his ally’s upper caste support base.

Raksha Kumar

· Feb 22, 2018 · 09:00 am

In Kerala, Adivasis continue to fight for land rights 15 years after violent agitation

Monday marks the anniversary of the clash in the Muthanga forest in 2003 that is considered the worst police action against the community in the state.

TA Ameerudheen

· Feb 19, 2018 · 07:15 pm

Adivasi rights groups petition Parliament against Compensatory Afforestation Fund law

They demand the law should be repealed or should be aligned with the Forest Rights Act.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Dec 21, 2017 · 12:30 pm