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EKTA PARISHAD-MAHATMA GANDHI SEVA ASHRAM

2009

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Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
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Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
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Effective actions against land grabbing

Mission

The Mahatma Gandhi Seva Ashram is an institution for peace and non-violence. We believe in an India where people can live in peace and harmony with each other. An India where there are no boundaries between humans. An equal India. A strong India. We believe that through Ahimasak Sangharsh (non-violent struggle) the rural communities of India can secure Gandhi’s vision of Gram Swaraj Srijan, or the creation of a self-reliant society, is possible when community ties are strengthened through mutual respect and social equity. 

The vision of the organisation is to secure and enhance the land & livelihood opportunities for the excluded communities, particularly Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, minority communities, single women and physically challenged persons, through democratic accountability, responsiveness and transparency in governance system.

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The objectives of MGSA are to establish and help establish educational institutions for spreading education, to establish cultural centres to arrange for regular prayers, sports, exercise, livelihood centres, training centres for imparting trainings to youth for agricultural activities, to encourage youth for social development and social work and to ensure complete development of rural areas.

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