| Question Hour in Parliament |
 Monsoon Session 2007 
QH is an initiative of NCAS to inform people about the discussion that took place during the Question Hour of Parliament on issues concerning the marginalised. The publication is an effort to facilitate social chang.
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| Advocacy Perspective |
 Let our
Rightful Forests Flourish
The Forests Rights Act 2006 is a result of long sustained peoples’
struggles for justice and restoration of community rights over natural
resources. Some of these mass organizations hailed the Act as ‘second
independence’ and appreciated it for setting the legal framework for
‘independence of jungles’. Crucially, through this Act, the Indian Sate for the
first time acknowledged the ‘historic injustice’ done to the tribal and forest
dwelling communities.
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| Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: |
 A Study to Assess the Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in India
This study focuses on three crucial rights essential for life with dignity, namely, the right to education, right to health and the right to food, with particular reference to the marginalized sections (dalits, adivasis, women and children). The study was conducted in three States of India: Maharashtra, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh.
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| Strenghtened Access to Justice: |
 Mapping Informal Justice Institutions in Maharashtra
Large sections of the poor and disadvantaged in India continue to be denied access to justice. The Tenth Five Year Plan and the National Common Minimum Programme of the Government of India recognise reforms in the justice system as one of the essential conditions for ensuring access to justice. The objectives of this study is to explore and analyse the capacities and potential of alternate mechanisms such as IJSIs in providing access to justice to the disadvantaged.
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| Women in Grassroots Governance |
 Crossing the Limit
"Women who do not behave themselves are accused of ‘crossing the limits’. But when women realise who they are and dare to express themselves they consciously cross these limits." This document traces the journey of the Mahila Rajsatta Aandolan (MRA), a collective working to promote and strengthen women’s role in governance in Maharashtra.
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| Globalisation in India |
 Civil Society Responses
Civil society activists in India joined forces with activists from around the world in Mumbai at the first ever World Social Forum in Asia to articulate their vision of ‘another world’, a vision of a world different from the current paradigm offered by the phenomenon of globalisation. This paper draws on research conducted by the author for the Ford Foundation on civil society engagement with institutions of global governance in 2007.
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| Filth |
 The Struggles of the Manual Scavengers in Jharkhand
Even after sixty years of independence, India still has close to three lakh people working as manual scavengers (response to an un-starred question on 20-12-02, Lok Sabha). It is a real disgrace and affront on our democratic ideals of equity and justice that such a large number of right bearing citizens of this country are forced to indulge in the inhuman practice of manual scavenging..
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| An Information Booklet |
 Minimum Wages
What needs to be done to ensure that workers particularly daily wage labourers from the unorganised sector get proper dues for their work? What can a worker do when he is denied the minimum wages due to him or her? This booklet helps us understand the context, idea, principles, laws and evolution of Minimum wages in India. It is also a manual for social activists and workers unions to use minimum wages in their collective struggles for justice.
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| Budget Track |
 Budgeting for the Marginalised
Budget Analysis’ is an extremely potent tool for making governments accountable to the promises it makes and the politics it professes. Across the world we have several examples of civil society using Budget Analysis as an effective tool of people centered advocacy for building pressure on governments to deliver on it’s commitments for pro-poor policies and programmes.
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| Recognising the Historic Injustice |
 Campaign for the Forest Rights Act, 2006
This book is a compilation of the processes that played a critical part in the build up of the Campaign for Survival and Dignity, which finally led to the creation of this legislation. This book provides a historical sketch of forest rights and their status in India and discusses in detail how the Campaign evolved through various strategies and events before and during the build-up to the Forest Rights Act.
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| Issues and Campaigns |
 Info Pack on Sponge Iron Industry
In the past five years India has emerged as the largest producer of Sponge Iron. This Infopack is a compilation of case studies from Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, with descriptions and stories of the way the sponge iron factories operate and also the spontaneous movements that have emerged to oppose massive pollution and inaction by the authorities.
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| Advocacy Internet |
 Patents on Health and Life Forms
In India and most other parts of the world before TRIPS (Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights), IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) were left to the discretion of respective states. In India the most well known legislation was the Patents Act 1970. The present issue of Advocacy Internet is dedicated to exclusively examine the ‘patent’ component within IPRs with respect to pharmaceuticals and life forms.
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| Advocacy Update |
 Land Rights
The increasing dispassession of land due to neo-economic policies, which favour land privatisation and large developments projects, the land dependent communities are pushed further at fringes of society. This update attempts to highlight various struggles and protests dealing with the question of land rights from the perspective of the rural poor, landless and marginalised communities.
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| NCAS TRANSPARENCY SHEET |
Details about NCAS Management Policy, Financial Principles, Salary Structure and Funding Sources. More »
Code Against Sexual Harassment, NCAS More »
NCAS' Accounts for the year 2005-06 More »
NCAS' Accounts for the year 2006-07 More »
NCAS' Accounts for the year 2007-08 More »
Annual report of NCAS 2005-06 More »
Annual report of NCAS 2006-07 More »
Annual report of NCAS 2007-08 More » [Printed copy available on request] |
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