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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | International Women’s Day: Adivasi Women Pay the Price for Defending their Lands -Ritwika Mitra

International Women’s Day: Adivasi Women Pay the Price for Defending their Lands -Ritwika Mitra

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published Published on Mar 8, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 9, 2022

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Across states, Adivasi women have been at the frontline when it has come to stand up for their lands. However, gender-based violence against them continues unabated till today.

New Delhi: Adivasi women in India continue to pay the price for being defenders of their lands, shows a report by advocacy group Survival International released on the occasion of International Women's Day.

The report titled ‘Brutalized for resistance: The assault on Indigenous women in Modi’s India’ documents the triple punishment that Adivasi women are being meted out with -- for being indigenous, for being women and for standing up for their rights against corporate interests.

The report highlighted that the violations of Adivasi rights are in direct contravention of national laws and international obligations.

Around 57 million Adivasi people live in Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, which are being exploited for coal, bauxite and iron ore. With most of the mining being proposed on Adivasi lands, thousands of people may lose their homes if unchecked mining continues, the report pointed out.

Across states, Adivasi women have been at the frontline when it has come to stand up for their lands. However, gender-based violence against them continues unabated till today. The report said that the states clamp down on dissent through false cases, incarceration of protesting women, intimidation, and defamation. Women defending their rights are also at the risk of facing sexual violence acid attacks, it added. Extrajudicial killings remain rampant too in the form of 'encounter killings in the government parlance.

“Adivasi women who stand up against the might of the state and corporations which are seeking control over their lands and resources are punished viciously. Security forces, for example, justify squeezing Adivasi women's breasts by saying they need to ascertain if they are producing milk, claiming insurgents are rarely mothers. Adivasi women face gender-specific violence such as beating pregnant women and acid attacks. A particularly gruesome feature of the violence against them is the sexualized mutilation of victims – before and after death,” the report said.

Since the Modi government came to power, there has been a 190 per cent increase in the number of women charged with sedition – another signifier of how women continue to bear the brunt of standing up for their rights. The use of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) remains unscrupulous, with 13,000 people charged with sedition in the past decade and, in 2017-18 alone, 10,000 Adivasi people charged with sedition in Jharkhand for erecting customary stone plaques at the entrances to their villages, the report observed.

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