Rights ensured under FRA are not just ‘enjoyment rights’

The misreading of the forest title deed, has become a stumbling block to the entitlements of title holders

Adivasis at bottom rung of India’s development pyramid, finds Tribal Development Report 2022

India’s tribal communities have been pushed away from alluvial plains and fertile river basins, into the harshest ecological regions, the …

Do tribal lives matter? Life expectancy, health indicators stay poor in Madhya Pradesh

Malnutrition in the tribal population is 1.5 times higher than the national average

Subaltern, forgotten: How mainstream narratives neglected the Bhumij, among the first to revolt against the British

The Prime Minister released ‘Dictionary of Martyrs‘ of India’s Freedom Struggle, selecting 1857 as the watershed year, …

Polycrisis at a Kanker village: ‘With every tree chopped, I became poorer’

Villages in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region enter economic recession as a new railway line brings the world closer to them

Rantal: A settlement’s journey from invisibility to identity

Displaced from Bihar in 1980, a group of 42 Munda families have collectively established the organic village in Odisha

Bengal forest department calls Gram Sabha ‘illegal’; files FIR against 11

Villagers from the Gram Sabha gathered near Bamini falls on the eve of Birsa Munda’s birthday 

COVID-19: Chhattisgarh’s marginalised nomadic communities starved, begged to stay alive

Nomadic communities already on the brink in Chhattisgarh faced harrowing times during COVID-19 lockdown

‘Review 150,000 forest rights claims rejected without reason’

Procedures violated; Rights body demands findings reports for Scheduled Tribe, Other Traditional Forest Dwellers claims

Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2022: What role will caste play in the hills

Why are Dalits not as assertive in Uttarakhand as in Uttar Pradesh despite forming 19% of the population

In Odisha’s Nayagarh, 24 villages receive community & forest resource rights

Traditional forest management systems have been recognised for title distribution for the first time in India

MoEFCC refuses to put new forest conservation rules on hold, says do not dilute forest rights act

New rules do away with Gram Sabha consent, National Commission on Scheduled Tribes had flagged last year in letter to ministry

IFR review: Here are some possible repercussions of rejecting reviewed forest right claims

Some 1.688 million people, whose claims have been re-rejected, face threat of eviction and food security

West Bengal: Illegal acquisition of forest land for Turga and Bandu Pump Storage Projects, claim tribal residents

Gram Sabha consent not taken for transferring the land, says forum for tribal communities

We need conservation frameworks that empower, incorporate forest dwelling communities

The history of Project Tiger, which completed 50 years this year, reveals systemic exclusion of oppressed caste forest-dwelling communities

Classification under SC, ST categories: Recognition needs to go beyond govern-analytics

Bill extending ST status to several communities raises questions regarding the category and its applicability in contemporary times