Topic: DNT Communities
Indigenous leaders, activists demand NTCA revoke order expediting evictions in the name of tiger conservation
Indigenous community leaders, solidarity activists, journalists, and academics, in a joint statement, call on everyone concerned about the rights of Indigenous and forest-dwelling communities and the future of conservation to pay urgent attention to the recent “despotic move” of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to evict people in the name of tiger conservation.
Custodial torture of two couples from Denotified Tribe; Gujarat HC orders probe
The Gujarat high court has ordered a probe into the custodial torture of two couples belonging to a Denotified Tribe.
Violations and violence: Everyday reality of denotified communities in India
After almost 150 years of the Criminal Tribes Act and almost 70 years after the Habitual Offenders’ Act, the collective callousness of the police department has been the same and that has been hampering the lives of de-notified communities in significant, unimaginable ways.
