Rising temperatures and the resultant stress on India’s agricultural sector may have contributed to increase in suicides over the past 30 years, research shows.
Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, (...)
“There are reports in the media that clear instructions were issued to use maximum force against the agitating farmers”.
A nondescript district in the centre of this vast country has suddenly become a most sought after destination for politicians and media people. Lamentably, this transformation (...)
Depleting grazing lands, the disappearing role for indigenous cattle breeds in agriculture production as providers of milk, energy, manure and beef, coupled with a ban on cattle slaughter have led to plummeting cattle populations.
The recent killings of Mohammad Akhlaq, Noman and Zahid Ahmad (...)
India: NAPM Press Release - UP govt Continues Forcible Land Acquisition Arrests Protesting Activists and Project Affected 26 September
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS
• Uttar Pradesh Government Continues Forcible Land Acquisition in Name of Development
• Release Medha Patkar, Amarnath (...)
We are shocked by the tripartite wage agreement signed on 20.2.2015 in the presence of the State Government in West Bengal. The agreement has provided a raise of Rs.37.50 over three years to tea plantation workers in Terai and Doars and Rs.42.50 to workers in Darjeeling.
Workers will therefore (...)
Workers in all the tea gardens of Terai, Dooars and Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal observed a total strike on November 11th & 12th, 2014 bringing the industry to a halt. The strike was called by a joint forum of 23 trade unions demanding minimum wages of tea garden workers who still get (...)
Tea gardens in West Bengal continue to be sites of super-exploitation of workers. The death due to starvation of six persons from the Raipur Tea Estate in North Bengal has driven home this point once again. Yet the only response of the government of West Bengal has been to announce one more (...)
The United Tea Workers Front(UTWF) has been launched on 27th December 2013 at Siliguri, primarily to raise the issue of a living wages and related matters in the forthcoming wage negotiations in North Bengal.
The tea industry, one of the most profitable, export earning sectors in India, is (...)
The battlelines have been drawn like never before. While the Odisha state government and POSCO India Ltd have made categorical statements that they have acquired 2,700 acres for an eight million tonnes steel project, the agitations in Gobindpur and Dhinkia continue. Each day there are incidents (...)
The Gujarat “development” model depends on acquiring, often forcibly, huge tracts of land and making them available at below market prices to industries, destroying village economy and fraternity
SHAKTI SINGH, the sarpanch of Jaspara village in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, is an affluent (...)
Kisan Khet Mazdoor Mahapanchayat to defend land and agrarian livelihoods
18 March 2013, Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
A historic mobilization of more than 1 lakh [one hundred thousands] farmers, farm workers and agrarian masses belonging to a wide variety of social movements from across descended (...)
Shahabad (Kurukshetra), October 18: In a dramatic action, farmers of the BKU forced the Haryana State Agriculture University to fulfil their commitment to destroy Monsanto’s ongoing GM corn field trials in their public research station.
Last month, farmers and activists of the GM Free India (...)
Report prepared by Bhartiya Kisan Union : Police brutalities and Farm Land Grabbing for Moserbaer Power Plant in Jaithari Tehsil of Anuppur District in Madhya Pradesh
July, 6 2012
Dharmendra Malik of BKU along with other activists carried out a fact finding visit to the area affected by the (...)
Farmer loses life at BJP office during agitation
Farmer Kartar Singh, a senior citizen, from Bhora kalaan, Muzaffar Nagar, became a martyr during the agitation by farmers of Bhartiya Kisan Union today at BJP office. Police personnel were present in large numbers. Ironically water cannons were (...)
Farmer loses life at BJP office during agitation
Farmer Kartar Singh, a senior citizen, from Bhora kalaan, Muzaffar Nagar, became a martyr during the agitation by farmers of Bhartiya Kisan Union today at BJP office. Police personnel were present in large numbers. Ironically water cannons were (...)
Resolutions taken in the 4th NATIONAL CONFERENCE, 26-28, MAY 2012
NATIONAL FORUM OF FOREST PEOPLE AND FOREST WORKERS, (N.F.F.P.F.W.)
NOORALAM NAGAR
DEHRADUN, UTTARAKHAND
Resolutions
1. This conference resolves to undertake a comprehensive programme to rejuvenate forests through (...)
Supporting a citizen movement in India, we appeal to all those who reject the rule of the strongest.
The social movements cannot simply denounce – abstractly - the delocalisation of the economy. Not only does it ruin the job for us, but destroys the roots of the life of the poorest in the (...)
The below statement, signed by 92 journalists, academics, judges, activists and other concerned citizens, is being circulated on behalf of the signatories. Additional signatures / endorsements can be sent to mamata68 [a] gmail.com or shankargopal [a] myfastmail.com
CONDEMN THE REPRESSION ON (...)
MARCH TO DELHI
FOREST RESOURCES ARE OUR BIRTH RIGHT.
RIGHT TO PEOPLE’S control over NATURAL RESOURCES.
MARCH TO DELHI
IMPLEMENT FOREST RIGHTS ACT.
RECOGNIZE COMMUNITY RIGHTS OVER FOREST.
PEOPLE’S FOREST RIGHTS RALLY
DEMANDING COMMUNITY RIGHTs over natural resources
15th December 2011, (...)
Demanding Repeal of Land Acquisition Act and Enactment of National Development Planning Act Thousands to Attend Sangharsh Dharna from Aug 3-5 2011 in Delhi.
New Delhi, August 2, 2011: In the wake of the new draft of Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement slated for debate in the (...)
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