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
Migration
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World Bank: let climate-threatened Pacific islanders migrate to Australia or NZ
Australia and New Zealand should allow open migration for citizens of Pacific nations threatened by climate change, to boost struggling island economies and prevent a later mass forced migration, a paper
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At the root of exodus: food security, conflict and international migration
At a time when a record-high number of people have been forced to flee their homes across the world, a new study by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) clearly establishes that high levels of
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Officials to carry out survey of mining areas in Sandur, Hospet
This to identify land for creating infrastructure facilities under Comprehensive Environment Plan in Mining Impact Zone Officials of the departments of mines and geology, forest, revenue and Railways
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Payment for ecosystem services- Guaranteed farm income and sustainable agriculture
<p>Paying farmers for ecosystem services that they provide could be a novel way to achieve multiple goals of doubling the farm incomes, reduce rural–urban migration, reduce pressure on urban infrastructure,
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Indigenous peoples and climate change: from victims to change agents through decent work
ILO report says indigenous peoples are key to the success of policies combating climate change. A new ILO report, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: From Victims to Change Agents through Decent Work,
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Uganda: Drought Drives Kenyan Pastoralists Into Uganda
Tens of thousands of pastoralists fled from Turkana in Kenya to Uganda last week to escape the drought. It is the latest blow for the parched region for which politicians once made rash promises of rapid
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Rising seas could push some U.S. migration to areas far from coast: study
Rising sea levels caused by climate change may drive U.S. coastal residents to areas far from the seaboard, not just to adjacent inland regions, according to a study published online in the journal Nature
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Status of gender, vulnerabilities and adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: impacts and implications for livelihoods, and sustainable mountain development
The overarching recognition in all the literature is that climate change will have huge and largely detrimental impacts on vulnerable communities, and that gender will be a defining feature in shaping
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Association between socioeconomic position and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Ghanaians in different geographic locations: the RODAM study
<p>The prevalence of diabetes has been shown to be socially patterned but the direction of the association in low-income countries and among migrant populations in Europe has varied in the literature.
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3,000 people a day fleeing in cholera-stricken Somalia as famine looms
More than 3,000 people a day are fleeing their homes in search of food and water due to Somalia's worst drought in 20 years, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said, warning of impending famine with children