Delhi Tribal Forest Rights Bill rally on 29.11.2006 with around 10 000 participants gathered near the Parliament of India
Adivasi (indigenous tribal) woman of India and bow and arrow in Adivasi women demonstration in Delhi on 4.12.2006
Adivasi women demonstration in Delhi on 4.12.2006
Adivasi Delhi rally participant
An old Adivasi woman speaks to the audience near the parliament.
Aplodes of the Adivasi audience.
Adivasis listening news about the difficult situation of their Forest Rights.
Adivasis from Maharastra and Gujarat came to Delhi with their traditional tools and weapons.
Adivasis from Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan marching through Delhi on 29.11.2006.
An Adivasi woman from Gujarat listens with strict attention.
Adivasis and the police force guiding the demonstration.
A woman leader of traditional movement sings and the police stand behind her.
Adivasi women leaders with bows and arrows in Delhi.
Adivasi demonstrator in a meditative position.
Adivasi women shout slogans raising their fists.
Adivasi man from Rajasthan
Adivasis from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, etc. marching through Delhi
Adivasis with their bows and arrows
Adivasi woman holding her tool and flag in front of the rally in parliamentary area.
An Adivasi woman in Delhi 29.11.2006
Jenukuruba woman from Karnataka with wild leaf. Jenukurubas has been displaced from the area of Nagarhole national park by "eco-development project" funded by the World Bank. Nagarhole tigers in the background.
On 29.11.2006 tens of thousands of Adivasis and other traditional forest dwellers demonstrated for their forest rights and against their displacement in Delhi, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Bangalore and in around hundered smaller towns or villages.
Bhuvan Singh Netam from Parivartan of Bastar, Chhattisgarh speaks in Delhi rally.
An Adivasi woman who has been displaced from her earlier home by a bauxite mine in Bastar. She has build after the displacement her home to an other forest area, which she also cultivates. The question is, will she be allowed to live in that land or not.
Adivasis in Bastar gather mahua flowers and other minor forest produce.
Adivasi forest life from Bastar
A welcoming ceremony for arrival to an Adivasi village in Udaipur, Rajasthan
An opening ceremony of a village stone to which there are written the acts of the law on local community governance - from Udaipur Adivasi area in November 2006.
An artificial phospate mining waste mountain bringing pollution in the middle of a beautiful Adivasi area in Udaipur.
Asia's largest rock phospate mine in Udaipur has led to wide displacement of indigenous Adivasi livelihood of the area
Gracia Adivasis from Udaipur in their traditional clothes in meeting of National Adivasi Andolan network in November 2006.
Adivasi dancing group in Tarandul, Bastar
Adivasi forest camp in Bastar, in March 2006
Raimotin speaks in a meeting on National Adivasi Andolan network while the host of the meeting, Ganesh Purohit (Adivasi from Udaipur area) listens.
Raimotin in Delhi Forest Rights Bill rally with other Adivasi women.
Serious Adivasi women in the demonstration.
Gond Adivasi Raimotin from Disha, Bastar.
Raimotin and Meena from women organisation Adivasi Samta Manch and other women sing and dance presenting the difficult state of mother India.
Many Adivasis are not even recognised as citizens of India - like some Adivasis of Theni area of Tamil Nadu who live there without housing or any home place authorised for them.
Adivasis of Theni area of Tamil Nadu live in mountains using natural herbs, roots and leaves and rock crystals to sustain their health without allopathy medicine.
Raimotin and another Bastar Adivasi woman from Adivasi Samta Manch in Delhi rally on 29.11.2006
Baiga women from Chhattisgarh speaking in Delhi.
Demonstration with the banners
Around 50 million indigenous inhabitants and traditional forest dwellers have been displaced by mines, dams (like Tehri dam in the photo) and other so called 'development projects' in India after India's independence.
An oath of forest dwellers for preserving their forest lands for their future generations.
An Adivasi child from Karnataka.
Orissa Adivasi woman with a green flag
A bamboo worker adivasi woman have done the work of producing bamboo products already for 25 years. Currently the rich corporate houses are however provided bamboo 50 times cheaper than the poor bamboo worker, whose life depends on it.
