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Migrating towards hungerNEW
Before they migrated to the city, the Gond adivasis had a plentiful supply of fruit and vegetables that grew wild. Now they make do with street food, packaged food like biscuits and gutka to dull the hunger pangs. The second in this series looks at how migration impacts the food and nutritional status of the urban poor More... Nipped in the budChild marriage still flourishes, as a recent public hearing revealed. How should the problem be dealt with? By making all marriages under the age of 18 for girls and 21 for boys invalid, instead of only those resulting from force or trafficking as at present? Or by public education the way 12 dalit women who bring out a monthly magazine in Andhra Pradesh called Navodayam do it? More... Pachyderm panic in AssamRampant habitat destruction has forced Assam’s elephants into close contact with humans. It is now all-out war between hungry elephants and angry tea estate workers. And still the forest department, the tea authorities and the district administration keep passing the buck More... ‘We must recognise a new type of crime: that which is committed against future generations’Bianca Jagger, former wife of rockstar Mick Jagger, is a campaigner for the rights of indigenous peoples, including the Dongria-Kondh in Orissa who are protesting Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mines in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. Jagger tells Infochange about the campaign that has led the Church of England and others to withdraw their investment on ethical grounds More... Waging a green warFormer Bodo militants have surrendered their guns but are still at war – against poachers and the timber mafia that are destroying the Subankhata Reserve Forest in Assam’s Baksha district More... The taming of the wildsThe first of a series on community forestry initiatives in Orissa, researched as part of the Infochange Media Fellowship 2009, discusses how India’s forests came to be controlled and owned by the state after 1855, placing the state in perpetual conflict with forest-dependent communities More... Children and women with HIV face destitution and violenceFifteen per cent of India’s 2.5 million HIV-positive are children. That’s 375,000 children, with 50,000 being born infected or becoming infected each year. The government has woken up to the tragedy of women and children infected or affected by AIDS and held a series of public hearings across the country recently More... Friend, guide and counsellorOrganised networks of HIV-positive people have penetrated to the districts where they are active in reaching out to each and every identified positive person to bring them their rights. Most prevention and care programmes by both national and international bodies closely liaise now with DLNs to ensure the success of their projects More... Urban poverty and malnutrition increase in MPMalnutrition in Madhya Pradesh is much higher than the national averages for India. And MP’s urban poor are worst-affected. This is the first in a series of articles, researched as part of the Infochange Media Fellowships 2009, that analyse the food security of the urban poor who reside in the slums of Bhopal More... ‘The world cannot wait for USA and China to announce emission-cuts’: Gro Harlem BrundtlandAn interview with Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and one of the earliest leaders to focus on global warming More... Famine-like conditions in Aila-affected areasIn its continuing coverage of the cyclone-affected Sunderbans, Infochange finds some 700 families in the K-plot island close to starvation. Nothing grows here any more, and rice is priced at Rs 22/kg. Villagers are desperate for work under NREGS More... The white tiger mysteryThe sighting of a white tiger in Madhya Pradesh created a buzz in conservation and media circles recently. Ashish Kothari is the only one who has got the inside story More... Do pro-people legislations actually work for the poor?After three years of fighting for his right to unemployment allowance under NREGA, and to find out under the RTIA why the allowance has been withheld and the erring authorities not been penalised, Kailash Nayak has got nothing. And to top it all, he has gone missing and the police claim they cannot trace him More... Medieval practices in a modern stateThree members of a family were hacked to death under the gaze of an entire village because their witchcraft was believed to be responsible for the death of a young girl. This is one of three such incidents in recent times in a village just 14 miles from Jharkhand's state capital, Ranchi, which itself has seen 240 murders of ‘witches’ in the past 10 years More... Deadly dustThough many migrant workers from south Madhya Pradesh have died of the incurable workplace disease called silicosis contracted from inhaling quartz dust in stone crushing factories in Gujarat, the public health system has carried out no comprehensive survey to identify the disease, which is often passed off as tuberculosis, many factories have not installed anti-pollution systems, and the NHRC has been sitting on the case since 2006 More... |
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