government neglect
Tragic Death of a Birhor Child
On May 15, one of India’s major newspapers, the Daily Pioneer, published a report about the death of an 18-month-old Birhor boy. With the news media in India crowded by stories about the devastation of the pandemic, the coverage of issues in a remote Birhor village was interesting enough. More than that, the story was […]
Advocate for the Birhor
A selfless 63-year old man from a rural village in the Jashpur District of Chhattisgarh has devoted his life to promoting the welfare of the Birhor people. The Hitavada, an English-language daily newspaper from Central India, published an account on July 6th of the work of Jageshwar Ram Yadav, who was recently recognized by the […]
San People Suspicious of the Botswana Government
A Botswana newspaper last week revealed that the government has hatched a plan to “infiltrate and control” the San people who live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve—the G/wi and the G//ana. According to the Sunday Standard news story, officials from both the national department of wildlife and from the Ghanzi District have formed an […]
Pregnant Woman Dies in a Birhor Village
The Telegraph of Calcutta focused once again last week on governmental neglect of the Birhor in India’s Jharkhand state. On Monday, May 11, a 22 year old pregnant woman, Jiramuni Devi, was examined by an auxiliary nurse-midwife in the village of Tulbul, Bokaro District in Jharkhand. She was nearing the end of her pregnancy. The […]
