Tribal groups claim Centre's forest encroachment data to NGT 'false', undermines FRA The Union Environment Ministry's response was not immediately available. The Forest Rights Act, 2006 ...

This mother and child managed to escape to Italy from Libya [Getty Images] ...

Many tribal and forest-dependent communities allege that the review process remained flawed, with the central and state governments failing to implement the law sincerely.

Libyan authorities have accused aid groups of plotting to change the country's ethnic make-up by encouraging African migrants to stay there, and has ordered them to close their offices. Ten groups ...

Geographical determinism, the theory that physical environments significantly influence social and political development, ...

Encompassing artistic creations, funerary art is associated with burial practices and commemorative rituals designed to ...

As we enter our national mourning period, to commemorate the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi for the 31st time, the peddlers ...

An umbrella group representing over 150 tribal and forest dwellers' organisations in the country said on Thursday that the central government's data on forest area encroachment, submitted to the ...

Libyan authorities have ordered 10 international aid organizations to suspend operations and close offices in the country, accusing the groups of violating local laws by providing aid African ...

The number of deaths in Sudan's Darfur region since 2006 may have been underestimated by as much as 50 percent, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said Tuesday. In March, ...

Washington lawmakers propose bills to ban flavored tobacco and impose a $2 tax increase on cigarettes. Discover the ...