Honnavar port report reveals rights violations

“Our understanding of what constitutes development has become a very critical question today, when the impacts of so-called progress are being felt across the country and the world,” said social activist and Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, speaking in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

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“We may celebrate Water Day or Earth Day, but are we truly heeding the warnings scientists have been giving about the state of nature? If we continue on the current path of development, humanity itself faces the threat of extinction,” she warned.

Patkar was speaking at the release of a fact-finding report on human rights violations in Honnavar, prepared jointly by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), Fridays For Future Karnataka (FFF-K), and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties-Karnataka (PUCL-K).