Submissions made to the UN
This is a collection of submissions we have made to the UN regarding the human rights situation in India, in collaboration with other groups.
30 April 2025
Joint Submission by Foundation the London Story, India Justice Project, International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India, London Mining Network and Indian Alliance Paris for the Report on Human Rights Defenders Working on Climate Change and a Just Transition of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, to be presented to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in October 2025:
State Repression of Indigenous Youth Adivasi HRDs-Led Climate Justice Movements in Bastar
1 April 2025
Joint Submission by Bagaicha Social Centre and International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India) for the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, to be presented at the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly in October 2025: Identification, Documentation, Demarcation, Registration, and Titling of Indigenous Peoples’ Lands: Practices and Lessons Learned:
Adivasi Indigenous Land Rights in Jharkhand State, India: ‘A Digital War is Being Waged on Us’
28 March 2025
Joint Submission by International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), Adivasi Researchers Collective, Bagaicha Social Centre, India Justice Project, London Mining Network and Indian Alliance Paris for the report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, to be presented at 60th Session of the Human Rights Council in September 2025, on the Recognition of Indigenous Peoples:
15 March 2025
Joint Summary Note by International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), India Justice Project, London Mining Network and Indian Alliance Paris for the report of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Report on The right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional economies to be presented at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council in September 2025:
Bastar’s Endangered Traditional Economic Practices
2 February 2025
Joint Submission by International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), India Justice Project, Foundation the London Story, London Mining Network and Indian Alliance Paris for the report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on the Rights of Families of Victims of Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (Unlawful Deaths) to be presented at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council:
8 January 2025
Joint Submission by the International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), London Mining Network and Indian Alliance Paris for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on the rights of the child and violations of the human rights of children in armed conflicts, to be presented at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council in September/ October 2025:
December 2024
Joint Submission by the International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), India Justice Project, Foundation the London Story, London Mining Network, Indian Alliance Paris and Coal Action Network for the Thematic Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Enforced Disappearances in the Context of the Defense of Land, Environment, and Natural Resources to be presented at the Human Rights Council in its September 2025 session and at the General Assembly in October 2025:
Enforced Disappearances of Adivasi Indigenous Peoples Resisting Takeover of Their Ancestral Lands to Facilitate Mining in Bastar Division, Chattisgarh, India
30 November 2024
Joint Submission by the International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), India Justice Project, Foundation the London Story, London Mining Network, Indian Alliance Paris and Coal Action Network for the report of the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity on Indigenous Peoples and international solidarity to be presented to the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in June 2025:
31 October 2024
Joint Submission by the International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), India Justice Project, Foundation the London Story, London Mining Network, Indian Alliance Paris and Coal Action Network for the Special Rapporteur’s report on human rights defenders working in remote and rural areas, to be presented to the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2025:
The Situation of Indigenous Human Rights Defenders in Bastar, India
4 May 2024
Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee for India’s ICCPR review, July 2024, by Forum against Militarization and Corporatization, Foundation The London Story, International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India, India Justice Project and London Mining Network:
Violation of Civil and Political Rights of Indigenous Peoples in India
November 2022
Joint Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of the Republic of India, November 2022, by India Justice Project and London Mining Network, in Cooperation With Adivasi Koordination In Deutschland, Human Rights Defenders Alert – India, India Civil Watch International, Indian Social Action Forum, International Solidarity For Academic Freedom In India, The London Story and Survival International:
Civil Society Coalition For The UPR Submission on Chhattisgarh