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In a world where women and girls constitute a significant 49.7% of the global population, their presence is paradoxically overshadowed in discussions on demographics, often leading to the violation.
New forests are coming up in areas traditionally used by locals for cultivation, for accessing forest produce, for grazing livestock and even burying the dead.
Jharkhand led the country in making up for lost forests in the year 2022-23, but cases from two districts show that tree plantation is coming at the cost of those who were cultivating that land or using it for grazing their livestock. Their forest rights are now at odds with forest plantation