India, March 20 -- Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, says tribals are treated like squatters all around the world
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has come out in support of forest dwellers of India. She criticised the exclusionary form of conservation that the petitioning wildlife conservation societies in the Supreme Court advocate.
Some national wildlife conservation groups along with former forest department bureaucrats had brought a petition to the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the Act, claiming this was necessary to protect wildlife and forests.
On February 20, the Supreme Court ordered the time-bound eviction of 1.1 mil...