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Greenpeace India will be forced to close within a month with the loss of 340 jobs because of a government crackdown on its funding, the organisations chief has warned. The Indian home ministry froze seven bank accounts��.
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The Narendra Modi administration has cracked down on Greenpeace India over its coal campaigns, closing off foreign funding transfers to the charity, although a court later ordered the government to lift the block... Must be wonderful to have no need for money - do share with us all please. You were home schooled too I assume, and your family, none of them work or help you financially at all. A whole family living for free. You must share how you all do it for free.
India crackdown may cripple Greenpeace efforts
For the first time in its history, environmental organisation Greenpeace International - known for its headline-grabbing campaigns - says that it may have to shut down its national organisation in India because it cant access its own funds. Greenpeace.
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India crackdown may cripple Greenpeace efforts. The environmental NGO faces imminent closure in 30 days as the Indian government freezes its bank accounts. activism india greenpeace. Indian activists demanding justice for fellow activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki at New. Without access to these funds, the group cannot operate and may have to halt its campaigns on sustainable development, environmental justice and clean, affordable energy, it added.
Greenpeace Faces Shutdown After India Freezes Funds In Charity Crackdown
Samit Aich, Greenpeace Indias executive director, said the freezing of its domestic accounts meant the charity - which has been in the country for 14 years and has more than 300 staff - only had enough funds left to operate for one month.
Court Orders Indian Government to Free Greenpeace Funds.
Funding to the environmental group had been frozen after a government report said protests of such campaigning organizations were damaging the countrys domestic product growth.
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Greenpeace Bank Accounts Frozen by India - WSJ Blogs
The Indian government has frozen seven bank accounts belonging to Greenpeaces India arm and suspended the environmental groups foreign-funding license for allegedly violating rules governing overseas currency transfers.. At that time, court ordered the government to release frozen funds worth approximately $270,000 to Greenpeace India sent from the environmental groups global headquarters.. The Trouble With Grading Employees. Subscriber Content��.
Centre acts tough against Greenpeace India, freezes its 7 bank accounts, bars.
New Delhi: In a tough action, the Centre on Thursday barred Greenpeace India from receiving foreign funds by suspending its licence for six months and froze its seven bank accounts with immediate effect, alleging it has prejudicially affected Indias.
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Speaking after the ruling, Sanjay Parikh, the New Delhi-based lawyer who represented Greenpeace India, told the Financial Times the judgment was an affirmation of the fundamental rights of civil society groups. ���This is very. Besides freezing.
Greenpeace India Contemplating Shutdown Amid.
NEW DELHI: Greenpeace India today said it was staring at an imminent shutdown within a month in the absence of funds for staff salaries and accused the government of strangulating it by stealth after the freezing of its funds.. Is it because we talked about pesticide-free tea, air pollution, and a cleaner, fairer future for all Indians, he said. Priya Pillai, a senior. The Home Ministry had issued a show cause notice giving a months time to Greenpeace to respond.
The Reference Frame: India freezes Greenpeace accounts
The right-wing pro-market BJP government of Narendra Modi has suspended the registration of Greenpeace in the country and they froze the bank accounts that provided Greenpeace India with foreign funding. TIME��.
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Centre acts tough against Greenpeace India, freezes its 7.
In a tough action, the Centre on Thursday barred Greenpeace India from receiving foreign funds by suspending its licence for six months and froze its seven bank accounts with immediate effect, alleging it has prejudicially affected. In a dossier on Greenpeace India, prepared after more than six month long investigation on the activities of the NGO, the Home Ministry said foreign contribution was used to influence and lobby for the formation of government policies.
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Greenpeace staff to work for free after India blocks funds
Activists of GreenPeace rappel down their office building to unfurl banners that read democracy and freespeech in Bangalore on May 15, 2015. Greenpeace is determined to keep operating in India even after the federal government froze its bank.
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Greenpeace India in Danger of Shutdown
Global environmental activist group Greenpeace says it may be forced to shut down its operations in India due to a recent move by the Indian government to freeze its funds. The Ministry of Home Affairs last month cancelled Greenpeaces registration as.
Indias government acts to cut off funding for Greenpeace.
The Indian government has frozen bank accounts of Greenpeace after accusing the international environment campaign group of encouraging ���anti-development��� protests in the emerging economic power.. The Union Home Ministry on Thursday suspended the official registration for foreign funding of Greenpeace India for six months and froze seven bank accounts connected with the organisation, The Hindu, a local newspaper,.. Peace on a Nuclear Free Earth.
The Indian government wont stop my fight to save Mahans forests
A Greenpeace balloon flies over forests in Mahan, India, which are threatened by coal mining. Photograph:. I was due to travel to London to address British parliamentarians about my work with local Mahan communities, but I was not allowed to board.
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NGO demands explanation from the Government New Delhi, Jan 11: In yet another incident of government clampdown on Greenpeace India, Priya Pillai, Senior Campaigner with the organisation was stopped at the New Delhi airport, this morning by the. Greenpeace India has written to the Ministry of Home and External Affairs and to the Airport Authority of India following this arbitrary action of stopping its employees in spite of having the appropriate paper work.
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The move by the central government to freeze Greenpeace Indias bank accounts and block sources of funds, is a blatant violation of the constitutional rights to freedom of expression and association. It also seems to be an attempt to warn civil society that dissent. It is shocking that despite these clear judicial pronouncements, the government has for a third time acted against Greenpeace India. We cannot but conclude that this is an attempt to divert attention from the��.
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Ms. Pillais case is just the most recent instance of government action against Greenpeace India. In 2014, the government froze $267,000 in funds from Greenpeace International and ClimateWorks, an American organization, meant to go to Greenpeace India, .
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The move by the central government to freeze Greenpeace Indias bank accounts and block sources of funds, is a blatant violation of the constitutional rights to freedom of expression and association.. It is shocking that despite these clear judicial pronouncements, the government has for a third time acted against Greenpeace India.. Rajesh Krishnan, Coalition for a GM Free India 17. Ashish. Ashok Chowdhury, All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP)
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The High Court of Delhi has overturned a Ministry of Home Affairs freeze on a Greenpeace India bank account holding approximately US$310,000 in funds from Greenpeace International. Justice Rajiv Shakdher ruled that. He also pointedly noted the ministry had not provided Greenpeace India with documents or reasons for its decision, which had been made following an Intelligence Bureau report citing the groups anti-coal activism. Greenpeace has welcomed the��.
High Court unblocks Greenpeace India funds in victory for.
The Delhi High Court today ruled the Indian government must unfreeze Greenpeace India funds received from abroad. In its ruling the court noted that the action of the Ministry of Home Affairs in freezing Greenpeace India��.
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NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministrys move to suspend Greenpeace Indias foreign funding appears to have been driven by its findings that the NGO has deprived Indian citizens of low-priced energy by derailing the Mahan coal project and. After attempting to block one of its activists from going abroad, the BJP-led NDA government went up against NGO Greenpeace India again by freezing its bank accounts and suspending its accounts on the grounds that it was��.
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Greenpeace India has written to the Ministry of Home and External Affairs and to the Airport Authority of India following this arbitrary action of stopping its employees in spite of having the appropriate paper work. Greenpeace is asking the government to explain the legal basis for. See also: ���India court tells government to unblock Greenpeace funds High court tells ministry of home affairs to allow foreign fund transfers to group after crackdown by Modi government���.
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The Right to Speak Out in India
On Thursday, Indias Home Ministry temporarily suspended Greenpeace Indias registration as a group eligible to receive foreign funds under Indias 2010 Foreign Contribution Regulation Act and froze its bank accounts. The governments problem with .