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How Odisha Is Tackling Protests Against Mining: An Abduction, Arrests, Terror Cases Against Adivasi Protestors

In August, police filed criminal cases against Adivasi-Dalit anti-mining protestors, arrested 25 in southeastern Odisha, which holds more than half of India’s bauxite reserves, and allegedly abducted a global environmental prize winner. Acting on orders of the Biju Janata Dal government of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, ahead of state elections, the police filed charges that range from rioting to terrorism—for the first time in 20 years of these protests—under 16 sections of the law.

https://article-14.com/post/how-odisha-is-tackling-protests-against-mining-an-abduction-arrests-terror-cases-against-adivasi-protestors--6503c8884ba63

#odisha #adivasis #dalits #BauxiteMining #mining #ForestRights #TribalRights #UAPA #DraconianLaws #HumanRights #vedanta #NiyamgiriHills #BJD #NaveenPatnaik #environment #india

Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable

Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.

#odisha #NiyamgiriHills #DongriaKondh #FCA2023 #AdivasiRights #IndigenousPeople #adivasis #tribals #ForestRights #FCA #ForestConservation #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #law #SupremeCourt #UnionGovt #india

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/loopholes-in-the-definition-of-forest-land-open-it-up-for-destruction/article67135716.ece

Modi government’s new environmental laws a threat to India’s biodiversity and forests

They could open up precious forest resources to the exploitation of private companies.

#ForestConservationBill #BiologicalDiversityBill #ForestRights #TribalRights #EnvironmentalImpact #odisha #NiyamgiriHills #manipur #vedanta #BJP #mining #urbanisation #environment #india

https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/primed-for-plunder-modi-government-new-environmental-laws-biological-diversity-act-forest-conservation-act-a-threat-to-india-biodiversity-and-forests/article67158366.ece

Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable

Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.

#odisha #NiyamgiriHills #DongriaKondh #FCA2023 #AdivasiRights #IndigenousPeople #adivasis #tribals #ForestRights #FCA #ForestConservation #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #law #SupremeCourt #UnionGovt #india

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/loopholes-in-the-definition-of-forest-land-open-it-up-for-destruction/article67135716.ece

Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable

Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.

#odisha #NiyamgiriHills #DongriaKondh #FCA2023 #AdivasiRights #IndigenousPeople #adivasis #tribals #ForestRights #FCA #ForestConservation #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #law #SupremeCourt #UnionGovt #india

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/loopholes-in-the-definition-of-forest-land-open-it-up-for-destruction/article67135716.ece

Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable

Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.

#odisha #NiyamgiriHills #DongriaKondh #FCA2023 #AdivasiRights #IndigenousPeople #adivasis #tribals #ForestRights #FCA #ForestConservation #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #law #SupremeCourt #UnionGovt #india

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/loopholes-in-the-definition-of-forest-land-open-it-up-for-destruction/article67135716.ece

Facing the axe: new ‘forest’ definition makes large tracts vulnerable

Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 2006, may pose threat to Odisha’s densely treed Niyamgiri hill range that is fiercely protected by the Dongria Kondh tribe, say experts.

#odisha #NiyamgiriHills #DongriaKondh #FCA2023 #AdivasiRights #IndigenousPeople #adivasis #tribals #ForestRights #FCA #ForestConservation #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #law #SupremeCourt #UnionGovt #india

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/loopholes-in-the-definition-of-forest-land-open-it-up-for-destruction/article67135716.ece