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08.05.2008
Hundreds of members of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe held a protest in India yesterday against plans by a British company, Vedanta, to mine their sacred mountain.
more...Related topics/regions: [Indigenous rights] Image: UK company Vedanta Resources Plc plans to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills, India
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07.05.2008
Members of Indian anti-poverty network WNTA met the HRD minister in the capital to present a memorandum urging the government to table the Right to Education bill in the current parliament session. WNTA campaigns to hold the government accountable to its commitments to end poverty, social exclusion and discrimination.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] Image: The WNTA delegate with the minister
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02.05.2008
A security think tank updates readers on recent statements made by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama regarding Iraq, Iran, nuclear weapons and proliferation, India, and North Korea.
more...From: Council for a Livable World Related topics/regions: [Iran] [Iraq] [North Korea] Image: © Guardian Unlimited
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01.05.2008
Environmental activist Sunita Narain offers a glimpse of what the future holds for coastal towns and villages as sea waters rise at a high rate. Climate change, rising salinity in waters and intense winds are eroding and depressing land at the same time in the Sunderbans, leaving people with no ways to survival.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Oceans] [Climate change] [Environment] [Land] Image: Sunita Narain
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