World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Displacement
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People first
The Sri Lankan Supreme Court rules against a mining project that would have displaced thousands of people
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Barmer farmers protest Jindal power project
People in Kapurdi hamlet, some 30 km from Rajasthan's Barmer town, are unusually suspicious of strangers. They stop and question every outsider driving through the area. What is making them so wary
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Mud breaches dams in Indonesia
Just a few days after an Indonesian court rejected a lawsuit brought by environmental groups against an energy company alleged to have caused mud volcano in Sidoarjo district, hot and black sludge
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Paying a high price
Forty thousand dams have rendered 60 million people homeless the worldover
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Saltpan workers in Gujarat served eviction notice from sanctuary
thousands of saltpan workers, called Agarias, from 107 villages in Gujarat's Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch districts face displacement with the Gujarat forest department serving them an
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Kono diamond mining suspended
The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into the unrest over diamond-mining operations in the eastern district of Kono, where residents were killed during protests in the second week of
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International body set up against golf
Representatives of environmental movements in Asia have formed a body to protest the spread of golf
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Tribals demand scrapping of proposed dam
Villagers assert a dam project to provide drinking water to Udaipur city would displace about 12,000 people, and they will oppose it firmly.
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Dharavi's real estate threat
The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai s sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not only live but also work in this settlement, something they will not be able to do in the new Dharavi. <b><font
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SOUTH AFRICA
The latest furore in South Africa is over the Cloudy Creek or Rietspruit wetland on the south bank of the Vaal river. The Sasol Chemical Industries wants to strip mine the area for coal as