A Comprehensive National Food Security Act
Dharna at Jantar Mantar, outside Parliament on 25th and 26th November 2010, 10am onwards. Be there to raise your voice in support of a just and comprehensive National Food Security Act.

Kisan Swaraj Yatra

Today, the food that we eat and the farmers who grow our food are both in crisis. To raise these issues with the country - since our politicians are hardly listening - farmer communities are on a Kisan Swaraj Yatra.

 

Right to Food Primer
This primer introduces to us the set of minimum demands that the Right to Food campaign has proposed in the context of the “National Food Security Act” announced by the United Progressive Alliance II Government.

Audit of NREGA Finds Problems in UP

The NREGA Act 2005 guarantees “legal right of a hundred days of wage employment in a financial year to adult members of a rural household who demand employment & are willing to do unskilled manual work”. This is a report from the 4th people's audit on NREGA organized in India. One key finding - only 7 women were employed!

Malnutritions Deaths in MP
The Madhya Pradesh group of Right to Food has sent an alert of malnutrition deaths in Patalgarh village of Sheopur district.

Enunciating Democracy: Public Hearings on Food

About a 1000 people from 20 panchayats came to Varanasi in carts, in tractors and in trucks � to publicly present their stories to the Food Commission set up by the Supreme Court and demand justice. They were stories of pain, of deception, of a callous corrupt oppressive system. But this was also a story of democracy.

We Beat Our Children to Sleep

People's Vigilance Committee for Human Rights, Uttar Pradesh, India & Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong, reports from a People's tribunal on starvation in eastern Uttar Pradesh