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Protecting Displaced Slum Populations in India

Since May 2006, more than 150 slums in Delhi, India have been demolished under government pretenses of transforming India’s capital into a clean and more cosmopolitan “world city.” Home to the city’s laborers and working class, slum colonies have come under increasing attack by politicians and more elite residents who criticize the specter of poverty as leaving a black mark on the growing image of “shining India.” With the upcoming 2010 Common Wealth Games to be held in Delhi, demolitions have sped up to make way for sports stadiums and commercial centers.

Local organizations such as the Hazards Centre, a Greengrants grantee, are fighting for the rights and livelihoods of displaced slum populations. Read More

Africa

• Uganda: Protest to Protect the Mabira Forest Reserve
  (May 21st, 2007)
  Greengrants grantees NAPE and Save Mabira Crusade organize a protest to protect the Mabira Forest Reserve from a sugarcane plantation.
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Asia

• Azerbaijan: The continuing struggle against Big Oil
  (July 23rd, 2007)
  The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Azerbaijan has had devastating impacts for local people. Community organizing has been essential to ensure that people's rights are not abused as this pipeline continues to affect local livelihoods and health.
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Brazil

• Defense of the Mangroves: A Campaign against a Large-Scale Shrimp Farm in Brazil
  (June 2nd, 2006)
  Instituto Terramar and the Mangrove Action Project have supported the Brazilian community of Caravelas in opposing construction of the largest shrimp farm in the country.
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Central America & The Caribbean

• Ecotourism for El Cacao Honduras
  (October 11th, 2007)
  Community members of El Cacao have banded together with the help of a small grant from Greengrants to begin their own ecotourism project – a new future full of opportunities.
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Europe

• Poland: Green Federation Gaja Fights Pollution from Industrial Feedlots
  (January 28th, 2005)
  Notorious for polluting waters in the United States, pork producer Smithfield Foods has taken its show to Poland where lax regulation allows its standards to reach new lows. Green Federation Gaja says Poland will not be Europe’s pig sty.
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India

• Protecting Displaced Slum Populations in India
  (March 28th, 2008)
  Since May 2006, more than 150 slums in Delhi, India have been demolished under government pretenses of transforming India’s capital into a clean and more cosmopolitan “world city.”[begin bold]The Hazard Centre, a Greengrants grantee,is protecting rights.
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North America

• Damming Society: The Plan Puebla-Panama in Mexico and Central America
  (July 23rd, 2007)
  Plan Puebla-Panama, a massive infrastructure project that aims to connect southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, has had serious implications for the livelihoods and health of local people.
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Pacific Islands and Australia

• Opposing Palm Oil Plantations
  (October 23rd, 2006)
  In Papua New Guinea, grassroots organizations work to combat the environmental devastation caused by the expansion of palm oil plantations.
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Russia

• Russia: Khiagda Uranium Mine Threatens Local Communities
  (May 21st, 2007)
  Armed with knowledge and commitment, local groups are demonstrating that civil society—even in remote areas of Russia—can help to clean up the act of extractive industries in the region.
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South America

• The Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA)
  (April 18th, 2006)
  Civil society groups have come together to create the Articulación IIRSA to organize and inform the public in areas where little information is available about the proposed Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA)
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