The Government of India must end human rights abuses tied to its project with South Korean steel giant POSCO, and must immediately cease illegal seizures of land which threaten to forcibly displace as many as 22,000 people in India’s eastern state of Odisha, said rights groups in a new report released today.
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India: Rights Groups Call for Suspension of POSCO Steel Project and a halt to human rights abuses
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Samir Jeraj : The far right in Burma, India and Sri Lanka
27 June 2013Far right religious nationalism is growing in South Asia.
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Video: Left wing extremism in Chhattisgarh - A TV Discussion with Himanshu Kumar
27 June 2013Recording from Indian television programme one on one.
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India: NAPM Condemns attack on Prafulla Samantara and Lingraz Azad in Bolangir, Orissa
27 June 2013On the night of 26th June, Prafulla Samantara, senior activist and National Convener, NAPM and Lingraj Azad, Samajwadi Jan Parishad was attacked at Bolangir station, while returning from a Padyatra organised by the people opposing Lower Suktel Project in the region.
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India: Even Uttarakhand tragedy will not stop reckless development
by , 27 June 2013News reports about the recent visit of the minister of environment to Mumbai fill one with despair. Even as the devastation in Uttarakhand was making headlines, our chief minister was asking Jayanthi Natarajan to relax environmental rules for projects which are either unnecessary, or designed to wreak havoc on their surroundings. Did he forget that Uttarakhand’s destruction is a direct outcome of the relaxation of environmental rules in that ecologically sensitive state?
Uttarakhand is far away. Our rulers refuse to learn the lessons of Mumbai.
