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Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal: NGO for Tribal women’s welfare – New Delhi

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Contact Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal 151/2 neb sarai New Delhi 110068 M +91 9999747696 & +91 9560838198 tribalwomen2009@gmail.com Source: message from Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal (6-4-13) Activities: Tribal & Indegeneous Tribal women Welfare Source: Adivasi Mahila vikas Mandal Address : http://www.ngoportal.org/ngo-database-4726-Adivasi+Mahila+vikas+Mandal.html Date Visited: Sat Apr 06 2013 20:08:02 GMT+0200 (CEST) Facebook Adivasi Mahila Vikas Mandal https://www.facebook.com/adivasimahila.vikasmandal.5

Adivasi community event and documentary film screening hosted by Accord – Tamil Nadu

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Accord held a meeting in memory of Manoharan who passed away in 2012. He worked with Accord for 20 years. A lecture was delivered by Shashank Kela, author of a recently published book titled ‘A Rogue and Peasant Slave’ dealing with the history of Adivasi resistance. The lecture we screened a wonderful film on the Adiya tribal … Read more

Missing school in spite “very good laws” for child protection: Unicef – Meghalaya

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By GARDINER HARRIS, nytimes.com, February 25, 2013 Slideshow >> “We have very good laws in this country,” said Vandhana Kandhari, a child protection specialist at Unicef. “It’s our implementation that’s the problem.” […] Meghalaya lies in India’s isolated northeast, a stump of land squashed between China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Its people are largely tribal and … Read more

Implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act poses the biggest challenge for the education system of India – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

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Dr. Kishore Singh, Foundation Day Lecture, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, 5th March 2012 New Delhi […] Monitoring the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, enacted by Parliament in August 2009, is an important part of the mandate of the Commission. The very title of … Read more

EU supported project to “bring back forests on forest land”: Auroville bioregion – Tamil Nadu

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    01 April 2002 | by Isha; source: Auroville Today, April 2002   European Union supports Auroville’s afforestation project. The planting of 75,000 trees within Auroville, fortifying Auroville’s forest gene and bunding and check dam work needed to combat soil erosion and enhance groundwater percolation are going to be the main components of the … Read more