New Delhi, 29 August 2022: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an action taken report (ATR) from the Superintendent of Police, Sibsagar district regarding the custodial death of a Naga tribal identified as E Henveih Phom (35 years) due to alleged torture by police at Gelekey police station in Sivasagar district of Assam […]
New Delhi: Ahead of the meeting of the Group of Ministers headed by Shri Himanta Biswa Sharma, Hon’ble Finance Minister of Assam, to discuss the issue of granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to six communities at 11 am on 8 October 2020, the Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) called upon the Government of Assam […]
NEW DELHI, 30 JUNE 2020: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) in its submission to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change today urged to withdraw the unconstitutional the Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification of 2020 which it described as an instrument to grab tribal lands and forests. The Ministry of Environment, […]
New Delhi, 17 June 2020: The Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) has filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to ensure the fundamental right to education by ensuring inclusion of the underprivileged sections of society including tribals, dalits, forest dwellers and the poor in the online classes imparted by the schools […]
New Delhi, 5th June 2020: On the occasion of the World Environment Day today (5th June) whose theme is ‘Time for Nature’, Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) urged the Government of India and the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh to cancel the Dibang Valley Hydropower project, the 3097 MW project to be developed by […]
COPENHAGEN/NEW DELHI: In a joint study, “COVID-19 in India: Reverse migration could destroy indigenous communities” (https://www.iwgia.org/en/news-alerts/news-covid-19/3549-covid-19-india-reverse-migration.html), International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) based in Denmark and Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) stated that reverse migration of indigenous peoples in the post lockdown period could destroy India’s tribal communities largely concentrated in ten states […]
