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Bhilangana Dam Protesters Released after Torture

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the arrest and atrocities perpetuated by the local police in league with the district administration on villagers protesting against the construction of a dam under the Bhilangana Hydel River Project in Tehri…

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DH: Will the Van Gujjars survive?

Radhakrishna Rao finds the Van Gujjar community in danger of losing its identity to the cause of conservation. Deccan Herald, Sunday, July 24, 2005 The culturally vibrant and socially dynamic community of Van Gujjars, a nomadic, pastoral Muslim tribal group inhabiting the rapidly balding stretches…

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IE: State overrules centre: moves to evict Gujjars from Rajaji

Indian Express, February 14, 2005 S.M.A. KAZMI DEHRA DUN, FEBRUARY 13: Despite clear cut orders from the Centre to halt eviction of forest-dwellers temporarily, in view of the proposed law to give propriety rights to them, Uttaranchal government has hastened the process to evict Gujjars…

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PTI: Interim order brings hope for Gujjars on Eid

[India News]: Dehra Dun, Jan 21 : The festival of Eid-ul-Zuha brought a ray of hope for the Gujjar community as an interim order cancelling their eviction from the Rajaji Park was issued by the Central government. “Eid has brought a new ray of hope…

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Dalit leaders demand transfer of top govt officials

Gopeshwar (Uttaranchal), Nov 8 : Cutting across party lines, Dalit leaders have jointly demanded the immediate transfer of two top officials in the Uttaranchal Secretariat for their alleged anti-Dalit policies. [more]

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Update on Udham Singh Nagar Land Usurpations

Rajiv Rawat, September 2004 I have recently received news about an old issue that was covered on the uttarakhand web site over 4 years ago. VB Rawat, an old colleague and human rights activist, just informed me that a supreme court judgement has ordered the…

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USSM: Plea for impeachment of judges

PUCL Bulletin, January 2004 This meeting of the Uttarakhand Samyukta Sangharsh Morcha, held on October 2, 2003 resolves as follows: The meeting expresses its anguish over the unprecedented situation obtaining in Uttaranchal. It is about something, which was never seen to have happened anywhere else…

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Hindu: Lessons from the mountains: The Story of Gaura Devi

C.S. LAKSHMI The Hindu – May 21, 2000 A WISE person once said that forestry is not about trees. It is about people. No one has realised this more than the women of the Uttarakhand region. Everyone by now knows about the Chipko Movement. But…

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The Sahayog affair

By Rajeev Dhavan The Hindu, May 19, 2000 SAHAYOG IS an organisation working on `AIDS’ education in the Kumaon Hills of Uttar Pradesh. In September 1999, it published a pamphlet called `AIDS aur Hum’ (AIDS and us) which described sexual acts explicitly. It also portrayed,…

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