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This conference asserts that the struggles of adivasis against the devastation and for realization of their rights over the land, water and forest are justified struggles. It extends its full support to the struggles of adivasis. The Conference demands the strict and immediate implementation of scores of laws enacted to benefit the adivasi people. The Conference calls upon the people to extend their full support and co-operation to the struggles of adivasi people. On Women The Conference took note of the situation in which the women are condemned to languish. Young women and men are persecuted and even killed for marrying someone outside the caste. Women suffer various forms of discrimination and oppression. They are super-exploited at work places and in the fields by denying equal pay for equal work. In the name of empowerment of women, they are being subjected to slave like labour in the sweat shops of SEZs and their blood being sucked by the micro finance companies. The modern technology made available as a part of expansion of market for making profits, instead of lightening the burden of women is perpetuating the patriarchal culture as is evident in the killing of girl child in the womb. The atrocities on women grew many times in their magnitude and cruelty. The conference strongly condemns the oppression and Nov 2016 suppression and physical attacks on women. It calls upon the people to fight for the equality of women in political, social and economic fields. Attacks on Democratic Rights The Conference took note of the growing attacks on the democratic rights of the people. Unable to solve not even a single problem of the people, the NDA government is resorting to sharpening the teeth of repressive laws. It is encouraging the state governments to enact more repressive laws taking Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Act as a model. It is taking devious route to do away with the labour laws. It is leaving no stone unturned to trample the rights of adivasis on forests, land and water. It is unleasing repression in the North East and Kashnir with enforcing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act trampling every right of the people. The aim of the repression is to subdue the people and their struggles to make easy for the imperialist sharks to gobble up our natural and economic resources. The Conference strongly condemns the measures of subtle and brutal repression unleashed by the successive governments on the people and their struggles. The Conference calls upon the people to get organized and fight to protect their democratic rights. On Sipasarubali Land Movement The present imperialist dictated development policies have not only played havoc with the life and livelihood of the people, but also with the ecology and natural environment. As a part of this design, the entire sea coast has been handed over to the MNCs and big business for loot and grabbing in the name of port, industry, coastal corridor and tourism. In general the entire east coast, particularly Odisha coast is cyclone prone and it needs protection of the natural barriers such as coastal forest and sand dunes that reduce the intensity of the cyclones and its impacts. Defying this logic, the Odisha government hand in glove with the big corporate houses has planned for a mega tourism project in Puri district. For this project more than 3500 acres of land is going to be acquired. Against this anti-people’ anti-environment project, people of Sipasarubali area under the banner of Upakuliya Jami O Jungle SurakshaSamiti and ChasiMuliyaSangh are in a serious struggle for the last six years. Ex-land mafias who were in illegal occupation of the land for years together are also against the people. They are trying in every way to reoccupy the land and deprive the people from their democratic and natural rights on the land. In the course of the struggle the people are facing serious repression from the state as well as land mafias. The Conference stands by the struggling peopl