Mar 12, 2013 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) at its meeting held during February 20-21 gave permission to the public sector SAIL to divert 210.526 ha of forest land in Jhillingburu of Saranda (Jharkhand) for iron ore mining. This was the second such project cleared by the FAC...
Feb 11, 2013 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Dandapani Mohanty, a social rights activist in Odisha was illegally abducted by plainclothes policemen and has been detained under cases related to incidents that occurred in 2009 and 2010. Additionally, non bailable sections of the draconian UAPA have been foisted on...
Jan 30, 2013 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
It has been over a decade since Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar into a separate state. In this period the state has witnessed a new face of people’s movements against displacement and armed repression by the state. News of the multitude of growing people’s movements...
Jan 15, 2013 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
In light of the growing protests against the mega dams coming up in the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys, CDRO decided to send an all-India fact-finding team to these areas. An eight-member team visited the three states of the northeast, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and...
Jan 15, 2013 | Adivasis, Custodial Death, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
PUDR deplores the bestial deeds of the two warring sides in Latehar district of Jharkhand, during the early hours of Tuesday, 8th January 2013.Mutilating the body of a dead is unacceptable under any circumstance. To do so in war on the body of a dead combatant is...
Dec 19, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
Following an outcry against the alleged killing of five tribals/Maoists in an ‘encounter’, near Bhaliaguda village of Gajapati district of Odisha, a six-member team of individuals representing CDRO and Women against Sexual Violence and State Violence (WSS) visited...
