EPISODE · Mar 23, 2015 · 9 MIN
S02E11 Priya Pillai on India, Coal Mining and Dissent
from Voices - Conversations on Business and Human Rights from Around the World · host Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
In January, Indian officials at Delhi airport prevented Priya Pillai, a campaigner at Greenpeace India, from boarding a flight to London, where she was invited to speak to an All-Party Parliamentary Group in the UK about a controversial coal-mining projec
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In January this year, Indian officials at Delhi airport prevented Priya Pillai, a campaigner at Greenpeace India, from boarding a flight to London, where she was invited to speak to an All-Party Parliamentary Group in the United Kingdom about a controversial coal-mining project in central India. Officials later said she was stopped from leaving because her activities were anti-national. She spoke to them anyway, using Internet-based technology. She sued the government for restricting her, and on 12 March the Delhi High Court ruled in her favour and strongly criticised the Indian government. IHRB's Salil Tripathi spoke to Priya soon after the judgment. In the conversation she recounts the case and the reason why Greenpeace strongly opposes the coal-mining project. She points out that the campaign is rooted in India with wide support from Indian civil society. And she stresses the importance of dissent and why activism is universal.
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