The Cost of Silence
22.10.2024
The recent comments by the Indian Government reaffirming the marital exemptions carved out within the provisions on rape in Indian criminal law is a distressing reminder of the appalling condition...
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A Beacon of Hope or a Dead End
12.03.2024
Introduction: In the past few months, India’s labour unions have been in a state of turmoil due to the Framework Agreement for Temporary Employment of Indian Workers in Specific Labour...
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- Women in International Law Vol. 3
Indian Women v. Indian Armed Forces
06.03.2024
Sexual violence and crimes against women are commonplace in India. With judicial remedy running at a painfully slow pace, high-profile politicians condemning rapes is nothing but lip service to women...
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The Internationalisation of Caste
15.06.2023
A bottomless social stratification of inequality exists in the form of caste in Indian society. Caste transposes economic, cultural, political, and educational marginalisation. The egregious forms of discrimination that the...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
India Trains Its Sights on Dissent in Chhattisgarh
28.10.2022
Development in the form of profit-driven resource exploitation ventures in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh, led by corporations and facilitated by the state, have wreaked havoc on the lives and...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
The State vs. Adivasis
27.10.2022
The Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh has been the site of an ongoing armed conflict over the last decades. The armed struggle in the region arose due to the lack...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
Punished for Seeking Justice
26.10.2022
In 2009, Himanshu Kumar, a social activist, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India against the state of Chhattisgarh. The case concerned the massacre of 16 indigenous people...
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- Symposium
- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
Tigers over Tribal Rights
25.10.2022
Indigenous communities around the world who have relied on and considered themselves custodians of the land have long confronted existential challenges in the face of privatization, extraction, and development. Often...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
Economic Growth or Adivasi Rights?
24.10.2022
“We exist because the forest does, and the forest exists because we do.” - Member of the Gond Adivasi people in Hasdeo Aranya That the world is facing an...
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- Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh
Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space
24.10.2022
Alev Erhan
Allison West
Sissy Katsoni
Meike Krakau
India is often referred to as the “world’s largest democracy,” yet minority protection has always been a field of fierce contestation in post-independence India. Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India)...
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How India’s Legislation Risks Impunity for Genocidal Speech
22.07.2022
Historically, genocides have been preceded by the gradual yet wide dissemination of speech targeting and demonizing particular communities, such as in the Rwandan genocide. The enormity of such speech is...
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Informed dissent or misinformed rebellion? Making sense of India’s farmer protests
04.02.2021
“We are food: we eat food, we are made of food, and our first identity, our first wealth, our first health, comes from the making, creating, giving of good food.”...
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