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
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
Over 300, 000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced due to the flash floods brought on by the weakened tropical storm system over the northeastern region of the country.
Mendha-Lekha and Marda in Gadchiroli district, which became the first villages under the Forest Rights Act to get community ownership of the forests around them in August, were on Tuesday handed over the Record of Rights by Governor S C Jamir at a function at Gadchiroli. The two tribal villages had successfully claimed community rights over the
Pune At Copenhagen, call for active participation of authorities, society
The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram are fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue. In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas. They are officially called
This report draws attention in countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. While producing the smallest amount of greenhouse gases, Africa is one of the continents most vulnerable to climate change, and with the greatest lack of adaptive capacity. Burundi and Somalia, which are the focus in the report, are considered among the ten most vulnerable countries in the world.
In 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC authoritatively established that human-induced climate change is accelerating and already has severe impacts on the environment and human lives. Although there is not a mono-causal relation between climate change, disasters, displacement and migration, the existence of a clear link between the phenomena is increasingly recognised.
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- NGO chief to highlight problems plaguing tribals because of rampant industrialisation and loss of habitat ARTI SAHULIYAR
CLIMATE change and environmental degradation will force one billion people to migrate in the next 40 years to southeast Asia, central America and parts of west Africa, the world's leading migration agency has said. A report by the International Organisation for Migration identified Afghanistan and Bangladesh among other places as "future hotspots" where people are expected to flee.
Pool your cars, ride bicycles and own trees. That is the message going out from Bangalore's green groups as the Copenhagen climate summit progresses.