Let's start the talking with an old report of 'Indian Express'. According to this report of December 2014 : In 65 months between January 2009 and May 2014, only 139…
In yet another mockery of democracy, the RSS-led BJP central government, using the National Investigation Agency (NIA), has arrested Raghu Midiyami, an Adivasi rights activist from the mineral-rich region of…
On February 1, 2025, the Brahmanical Hindutva Fascist BJP-RSS led Chhattisgarh Government claimed the killing of eight Maoists in the Tolimeta (Toli Hills) area between the villages of Korcholi and…
We have been witnessing that immediately after the new state government under current Chief Minister Bishnu Deo Sai in Chhattisgarh installed on 13 December 2023, mass killing of Tribal people…
The Democratic Front against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab, organised a ‘Provincial Convention against Repression’ at Tarksheel Bhawan in Barnala on January 19th. The convention, convened by Buta Sing,Parminder Singh and…
From the early morning of January 16, 2025, approximately 4000 paramilitary forces from Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), Greyhounds and District Reserve Gaurds (DRGs-…
Urgent Letter to CM, Chhattisgarh and Chairperson, State Human Rights Commission, to ensure justice for adivasi villagers and accountability of authorities in Bastar, Chhattisgarh To,The Chief Minister,Government of Chhattisgarh,Civil Lines, Raipur…
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, the BJP led Chhattisgarh Government and the Bastar IG Sunderraj P claimed that a contingent of 1000 personnel belonging to District Reserve Guards, Special Task…
The BJP government in Chhattisgarh has imposed a ban on the indigenous organization "Moolvasi Bachao Manch" this month. The government has stated in its official order that this organization opposes…
The Bastar-based Moolvasi Bachao Manch (MBM), an umbrella organization of Adivasis representing 30 mass movements opposing the corporatization and militarization of the Bastar region in Chhattisgarh, has been banned by…
It has come to our attention that the Home Ministry of Chhattisgarh Government, via a circular dated 30 October 2024 has banned Moolwasi Bachao Manch, Bastar, stating it to be…
At the time I am typing this message on my phone 15th November, 2024, soldiers from India’s government security forces are attacking an indigenous village in Bijapur district, Bastar region,…
According to the Home Minister, Amit Shah, 250 security camps have been established in Bastar after 2019. There are camps roughly at a distance of every 2 or 5 km,…
Forum Against Corporatisation and Militarisation, along with Foundation The London Story, Netherlands, International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India, India Justice Project, Germany and London Mining Network, UK, has submitted…
New Delhi, June 29, 2024: People’s Union of Civil Liberties would like to bring to your notice the alarming fact of the brazen killings by security forces of more than…
On the Intimidation and Turning Back of Democratic Rights Activists Who Seek to Investigate the Ground Situation in Bastar. The Indian state continues to ensure an information blackout regarding the…
On 7th April 2024, the Indian state conducted yet another aerial bombing in Bastar region, an act which has occurred for the fifth time in the area since 2021. In…
● 5th Aerial Bombing in Bastar on 13 January 2024. ● Killing of Ramesh Poyam in Bijapur district on 30th January. ● Drone strikes on Indo-Myanmar border and Changlang District…
In a stirring speech to his fellow lawyers on the occasion of Independence Day, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, underscored the importance of eliminating the barriers to accessing justice…
Indigenous (Adivasi) people in Bijapur district of Bastar, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, have been traumatised by yet another aerial bomb attack from the security forces which have been using drones…
Are you aware that the Indian government has once again bombed its citizens? On 7th April 2023, the Indian government dropped bombs aerially with the help of drones on the…
Fourth drone attack in three years, mockery of democracy in Bastar The adivasi villagers of Bastar have once again made themselves heard against the aerial bombings or drone attacks…
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), Chhattisgarh and Chhattisgarh Right to Food Campaign (RTFC) Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and Right to Food Campaign (RTFC), Chhattisgarh are writing to the Chhattisgarh government…
In 2013, the villagers of Village Kondasawali, Police Station Jagargunda, district Sukma, Bastar Divison, Chhattisgarh had lodged a complaint with the Collector regarding the fact that a few years before…
River Shabari flows through the Dandak forests. Along its banks live people from many tribes, the Adivasis – Gond, Kondh, Koya, Koitur, Shabar, Soro… so many names have history given…
Chhattisgarh state has been a battleground for two conflicting world-views and two models of development that are at loggerheads with each other. Successive governments, representing the interests of global and…
Mumbai Press Club, March 10 2017: Bastar Solidarity Network, Mumbai organised the book release of “ Bearing Witness : Sexual Violence in South Chhatisgarh” on 10th Mach 2017. The book…
IGP Kalluri, the man alleged to have committed untold atrocities on clueless tribal people in Bastar, and the scores of human rights activists who have tried to intervene time and…
WSS welcomes the actions taken by the Government of Chhattisgarh to restore its credibility and regain the confidence of the citizens of Bastar. In a series of decisive administrative actions…
This is an appeal for restoration of the rule of law in Bastar (Chhattisgarh), assured access without interference to any persons concerned with human rights abuses in the area, and…
We, the concerned students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai condemn the continuing state repression of adivasis and recent attack on human rights activist Bela Bhatia in Bastar,…
The National Alliance of People’s Movements strongly condemns the multiple, brazen acts of intimidation directed at well-known academic and activist Bela Bhatia in Bastar including the most recent attack a…
On 24th January, 2017 a demonstration and Hall meeting was organized by the INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE’S LAWYERS (IAPL) in Mumbai to mark the “International Day of the Endangered Lawyer”.…
Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression condemns the recent attack against Bela Bhatia, a researcher and activist, based in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. On the 23rd of January, 2017, a group…
Just a couple of days after she helped a team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to investigate complaints of rapes by the security forces near Bijapur (South Chhattisgarh),…
WSS welcomes the decisive intervention of the National Human Rights Commission in cases of sexual violence against Adivasi women by police and security forces engaged in anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh.…
Clearly rattled by the mounting body of evidence of blatant violations of the rule of law and Constitutional rights under the cover of anti-Maoist operations, the Bastar police has launched…
The People’s Union of Civil Liberties strongly condemns the action of the Chhattisgarh police in registering an FIR (Cr. No. 27/2016 PS Tongpal dated 5.11.2016) against DU Professor Nandini Sundar,…
Press release by Campaign for Peace and Justice in Chhattisgarh (CPJC) and Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) Giving a whole new turn to the on-going attacks on…
We the Undersigned, strongly condemn the absurd charges of‘criminal conspiracy and murder’ against highly respected academics and social activists by the Chhattisgarh police in the case of murder of Shamnath…
PUDR strongly condemns the burning of the effigies of activists and a journalist by the Chhatissgarh Auxiliary police force across Bastar in a widely publicised ‘offical protest on 24th October.…
Sukli Hemla of Palnar village (Bijapur) remembers that as a widowed woman, she had done everything to save her son when he would fall ill during his childhood. But when…
There are many of us educated urbanites who haven’t even heard about places like the Bastar region in Chhattisgarh. The reasons are obvious. The mainstream media hardly reports about the…
“In Bastar, a man dies once, but a woman dies twice, once when she’s stripped of every ounce of her dignity, paraded, brutalized by a gang of uniformed mercenaries;…
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