Tag: aadivasi
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The Dalit Foundation: an Urgent Appeal for Solidarity
Five Human Rights Defenders ( including three women ) of Dalit Foundation ( India) arrested and remanded to judicial custody on false charges on India’s 64th Independence Day ( 15th August 2010 ) in Tirunelveli District of Tamilnadu. Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director of People’s Watch has also been identified as an ‘absconding accused’ by the…
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“The Government took away all our fields and land, now they ask us to leave our homes”
Report by Dayamani Barla (above), translated by Vidya Jonnalagadda The displaced people of Gurutoli and Paahantoli in Naamkom Block are eking out a living to put together a couple of modest meals a day by toiling as daily casual labor, and selling grass and country liquor. The financial constraints keep them from providing either decent…