Tag: India
The struggle for justice in India’s Manipur
Graham Peebles looks at how emergency laws introduced in India’s northeast in 1958 and still in force 61 years later are allowing the army and paramilitaries literally to get away with murder.
The great Ethiopian land giveaway
Graham Peebles argues that the Ethiopian government’s policy of leasing vast tracts of fertile land to foreign agribusiness corporations and forcibly relocating farmers is impoverishing the countryside and degrading its people.
India’s inequality and destructive development
Graham Peebles outlines the scale and depth of poverty, inequality and injustice pervading India under the banner of globalization and free market fundamentalism – what is known as the Indian economic “miracle”.
Indian farmers trapped and desperate
Graham Peebles considers the reasons for the epidemic of suicides afflicting India’s debt-ridden, corporate-crushed farmers, and views the Indian government’s response – a mixture of indifference and siding with big business.
Daughters of India violated and abused
Graham Peebles argues that India must undergo fundamental legal reform and a sea-change in attitudes towards genders if it is to protect its women and girls from rape, violence, abuse and indignity.
