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• Akash Bisht at Al Jazeera reports on 2,000 plus indigenous people rallying in New Delhi against possible amendment to a law that protects their land rights as forest dwellers.

• How can funders help communities build effective self-governance? 

• Learn about restoring common lands in India.

New Delhi, India - More than 2,500 indigenous people and forest dwellers held a demonstration in the Indian capital on Thursday, days before the Supreme Court is due to begin a final hearing of their case to evict them from their lands.

"We have come to [New] Delhi to ensure that our voice is heard by the Supreme Court so that it doesn’t end up doing a historical injustice," Baham Saste a 48-year-old farmer from Badwani district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

Some protesters, barely a stone's throw away from India's Parliament carried bows and arrows and held up placards with slogans such as: "We have fought and we have won. We will fight and we will win."

In February this year, India's Supreme Court ordered the eviction of more than a million forest dwellers after their land claims were rejected and directed 21 states to file affidavits with details on how they had processed those claims.

Read the full article about forest dwellers in India by Akash Bisht at Al Jazeera.