The selected journalists for TheCable are Taiwo Adebulu, head, fact-Check desk; Vivian Chime, climate change reporter, and Ayodele Oluwafemi, criminal justice reporter.
The corps members for Scroll.in are Aarefa Johari, covering work and gender; Ishan Kukreti, land and climate, and Johanna Deeksha, health and education.
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“On World Press Freedom Day, it is our extraordinary honor to support these talented journalists who will be serving their communities,” said Charles Sennott, founder and chief executive officer of GroundTruth, said.
“Our mission is to rebuild journalism from the ground up by helping local news organizations serve under-covered corners of their communities. There is a need to strengthen press freedom around the world. Healthy societies require trusted, accurate information and never before has that need been more clear and more urgent.”
Debate: Should forest guards in India be armed with firearms?
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State of India s environment: Environmental crime cases piling up, disposal slow
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Who Will Guard the Guardians? State Accountability in India s Environmental Governance
Effective public accountability is a prerequisite for protecting India s environment and the environmental human rights of all Indians. However, the question of what factors promote the accountability of public institutions remains under-researched in India. The recent and ongoing attempts by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to undermine environmental regulations beg a fundamental question that has yet to be debated adequately: Who will guard the guardians? In this essay, we discuss the importance of divided administrative jurisdictions for fostering relations of accountability in public institutions. Specifically, we highlight the divided jurisdiction that the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 creates in the regulation of mining and other non-forestry activities in forest areas and its implications for bolsterin