पूरे राज्य में मानव अधिकार एवं जन हित के विभिन्न मुद्दों पर कार्य कर रहे 30 से अधिक नागरिक समाज समूहों ने हमारे संविधानिक अधिकारों व मूल्यों की रक्षा के लिए चलाए जा रहे राष्ट्रव्यापी अभियान में भाग लिया है। इस आह्वान पर अमल करते हुए देश भर में 500 से अधिक पूरे देश में […]
On the 30th of April 2020, a large portion of a steep mountain in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh slipped down to village Pangi destroying apple orchards and killing one Nepali migrant worker. This area in the high Himalayas, falling in the Satluj Valley, which is known for its geological and ecological vulnerability, is also […]
Press Note 4 March 2020: Forest-Land-Rivers and Tribal Identity: A two-day dialogue: People’s organisations from Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur call for tribal unity About 25 representatives of people’s organisations from Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur concluded a two-day dialogue on ‘Forest-Land-Rivers and Tribal Identity’ in Palampur on 3rd March 2020. The meeting which focused on the issues of […]
हिंदी प्रेस नोट के लिए स्क्रॉल करें Press Note, 13 February 2020, Thunag: Demands for effective implementation of FRA on ground gains momentum in Saraj valley. The implementation of Forest Rights Act (FRA) has been laggard in the State of Himachal Pradesh owing to the bureaucratic lethargy and arrogance towards this law. A public meeting was […]
Written by Aditi Vajpeyi & Vaishnavi Rathore Published on Economic and Political Weekly The emergence of the Forest Rights Act reasserted the vitality of the role people play in conservation and management of natural resources and carving out legal channels for recognition of their forest rights. But, in Himachal Pradesh, the FRA suffers at the […]
People from Kinnaur staged a protest at Reckong Peo today seeking speedy implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in the tribal areas of the state and to draw the attention of the government towards the growing threat to the ecology. The protesting members of the Zila Van Adhikar Sangharsh Samiti Kinnaur were joined by […]
हिंदी के लिए नीचे स्क्रोल करें Press Note: 15th October 2019 Death of 52 year old Dama Devi due to bureaucratic apathy and intimidation: Public Representatives and Civil Society Groups submit Fact Finding Report to DC Mandi. On 26th July, a 52 year old healthy and active Dama Devi, resident of Village Daangel (Tehsil Chachyot) […]
In a travesty of the Forest Rights Act set up to protect indigenous communities, members of the Lippa tribal village in Himachal Pradesh are being denied individual forest rights. Text by Manshi Asher Photographs by Sumit Mahar Himachal Pradesh, a State where two-thirds of the landscape is categorised as forest and 90 per cent of […]
A Himalayan village’s struggle to assert its forest rights Manshi Asher 01 September 2019 Karam Sain led the way through the narrow paths of the temperate forest near the tribal village of Lippa, located in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. The cool May air was filled with the scent of dried chilgoza pine cones, […]
वन अधिकार कानून देश में लागू हुए एक दशक से ज्यादा हो गया पर आज भी इस कानून को सरकारें ढंग से लागू नहीं कर रहीं हैं. एक तरफ हिमाचल जैसे राज्य हैं जहां इसका क्रियान्वयन बहुत धीमी गति से चल रहा है तो कई ऐसे राज्य हैं जहां लाखों दावे भरे गए हैं परन्तु […]