User:Gladsondungdung

Gladson Dungdung is a Human Rights Activist and writer. He comes from the Indigenous community of Jharkhand. He has done Post Graduate in Human Rights and 18 months Internship Programme in Public Advocacy from the National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune. He is also associated with the various campaigns in India including CREJ Jan Mukti Andolan, Land Rights Campaign of Ekta Parishad, Save the Forest Movement of JJBA and Campaign against Torture of People’s Watch. He has under taken the Fact Finding Mission of 450 cases of Police Atrocities and Human Rights violation. He has trained 2000 professionals on Human Rights including Police Officers, Lawyers, Journalists, Teachers, Doctors, Psychiatrists, Elected Representatives and Social Activists.

Gladson has written intensively on the issues of Indigenous’ Rights, Human Rights, and Communalism including a research paper on the ‘impact of the Forest Policies on Adivasis of Orissa’. His areas of interest include Indigenous’ rights, advocacy, human rights, policy formation & implementation and strategic planning & campaign. He is the founder Secretary of ‘Navjeevan Foundation’, an organisation works with abandoned children, tribals, dalits, women and rickshaw-pullers in Jharkhand. Gladson writes regularly for the Daily Newspapers, Weeklies and Journals on the issues of indigenous people, human rights and social change. Read his articles at www.indigenousindia.blogspot.com