-Newsclick.in 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...
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India’s new budget: much fanfare, missed opportunity -Happy Pant and Sarah Farooqui
-CBGA Blog India presented its latest Union Budget (for FY 2022 -23) in early February amid much hope, as the country is still reeling from the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, which has lasted for two years. To deal with the pandemic induced socio-economic crisis, countries across the world have been announcing policy measures outside of their annual budgets. The Indian government, too, made many such announcements, but given the scale of the...
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