The complete freezing of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Enforcement Directorate, an investigative agency of the Government, brings all the work being done by the organisation in India to a halt.
The Indian authorities are increasingly using authoritarian tactics to punish peaceful protests, while failing to act against violent attacks by its supporters, says Human Rights Watch.
India’s largest renewable energy company and the UN Environment Programme have signed a partnership agreement to promote increased access to renewable energy and improved energy efficiency.
Two tribal communities in India have written to the US authorities urging them to scrap support for a conservation project that could lead to the tribe’s eviction from their ancestral forests.
Survival International says the school is an attempt to reduce tribal resistance to the mining industry by teaching children to see mining as good and their own culture as backward.
The Indian authorities should cease using unnecessary lethal force against demonstrators protesting a law that discriminates against Muslims, says Human Rights Watch.