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Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife Vimla Bahuguna and him. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri ...
The Chipko movement (Hindi: चिपको आन्दोलन, lit. 'hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the government's policies on deforestation, protesters in the 1970s engaged in tree hugging , wrapping their arms around trees so that they could not be felled.
Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) is a cross disability, consumer controlled [1] international non-governmental organization (INGO) headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and with regional offices in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and North America and the Caribbean.
The killings were carried out on the orders of his minister Giridhar Bhandari. The effort had a long term impact on environmental advocacy, and the massacre later became known as a precursor to the 20th century Chipko movement. Due to the sacrifice of the protesters, the ruler took back his earlier order of felling trees. [1]
Fifty-nine Haitian children with disabilities and 13 caregivers were evacuated by boat to Jamaica on Thursday, fleeing ongoing gang conflict.
Panduranga Hegde is inspired by Sundarlal Bahuguna and Amrita Devi Bishnoi in the area of environmental protection and is known as disciple of the latter. [3] During the 1980s, [4] Panduraga Hegde led people to protect trees in forest by embracing the trees or appiko (as in local language Kannada) when the contractors tried to fell trees.
Jamaica at the Paralympics (2 C, 15 P) Jamaican disability rights activists (2 P) P. Jamaican people with disabilities (1 C, 11 P)
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021