Enjoying renewable energy, natural resource conservation, community health, education and organic food – The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (California, USA)

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Self Determination: A Path to Health and Sustainability for Native Americans By Marshall McKay, Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation For thousands of years, members of our Yocha Dehe Wintun Tribe tended the land, protected plant and animal species, and preserved environmental balance. The land was rich and our early communities thrived. However, by the … Read more

Tribal groups seeking support for a tribal candidate as the 13th president of India

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Rakhi Chakrabarty, TNN May 10, 2012 Demand for tribal President grows NEW DELHI: Tribal groups are drumming up support for a Scheduled Tribe candidate as the next president of India, but they are yet to agree on a name. Earlier, former Speaker and NCP leader P A Sangma had pitched for a tribal candidate for … Read more

Tribal students qualify for India’s premier technological institution (IIT) – Chhattisgarh

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Watching his father toiling as a labourer, Jaiprakash Singh decided that he must aspire for something much higher. Jaiprakash, who belongs to a tribal community in Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur district, is on his way to achieving his dream; with the 750th rank in the reserved category of IIT-JEE examinations, he is all set to enter the … Read more

Recruitment of tribal girls highlighted – drug trial report by the Independent newspaper

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Pharmaceutical companies in the West have seized on developing countries like India over the past five years as a testing ground for drugs, where the research costs for lucrative products to be sold in the Western nations are very low. According to the ‘Independent’, after the relaxation of restrictions on drug trials in 2005, this … Read more

India Committee of the Netherlands

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The India Committee of The Netherlands (ICN) is an independent non-governmental organization, based on solidarity with deprived groups in Indian society CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY Policy and practice of (ir)responsible corporate conduct CHILD LABOUR AND EDUCATION STOP Child Labour – School is the best place to work DALITS Caste discrimination and what can be done against it CLEAN … Read more