2025 Sakharov Prize | Government Defends Forest Rights Act in Supreme Court | Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM) | The UN’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative

2025 Sakharov Prize

Syllabus: Miscellaneous

Context

• Two imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut in Belarus and Mzia Amaghlobeli in Georgia—have won the 2025 Sakharov Prize.

Sakharov Prize

• Established in – 1988
• Named after – Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov.
• It is the European Union’s highest human rights award,
• Mandate – It honours individuals or groups defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Government Defends Forest Rights Act in Supreme Court

Syllabus: GS2/ Governance, GS3/ Environment

Context

• The Central Government has defended the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, before the Supreme Court.
• It emphasizes that the legislation is restoring the dignity, livelihoods, and cultural identity of India’s forest-dependent communities.

Forest Rights Act, 2006

• The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, popularly known as the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
• It legally recognizes the rights of forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers over forest land and resources they have traditionally used for generations.

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM)

Syllabus: GS2/Governance/GS3/Poverty

Context

• The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM), implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, is one of the world’s largest poverty alleviation programmes.

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana

• Launch: It was launched in 2010 by restructuring the earlier Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), the initiative was renamed in 2016 as Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM).
• Financing – It is a centrally sponsored scheme.
• Aim – to reduce rural poverty through self-employment and skilled wage employment.
• Women Centric Model: The mission promotes economic independence by linking women to credit, markets, and technology through SHGs and federations.

The UN’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative

Syllabus: GS 3/Environment

In News

• The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) rallied its 193 Member States to commit to universal early warning coverage by 2027 under the UN’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative.

Basics – Early Warning System (EWS)

• It is an integrated approach that combines hazard monitoring, forecasting, disaster risk assessment, communication, and preparedness to enable timely action for saving lives, livelihoods, and assets at risk.​

UN’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) Initiative

• Launched in 2022
• Co-led by – WMO, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
• Aim – Its goal is to ensure that every person — regardless of where they live — is protected by life-saving alerts for hazards such as cyclones, floods, heat waves or droughts.