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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Mocking adivasi concerns
There is a new
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Over 360,000 people displaced in Sri Lanka's Batticaloa District
Jan 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) today reported that 362,873 people from 96,663 families have been affected by floods in the Batticaloa District of Eastern Province. The
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The impact of Special Economic Zones in India: a case study of Polepally SEZ
This study provides an overview of the national-level controversy surrounding SEZs, before turning to a detailed account of the acquisition process and impacts of one SEZ in Polepally, Andhra Pradesh.
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Aide-Memoire on land acquisition and rehabilitation & resettlement bill (LARR), 2011
<p> Recent experience shows protests by stronger communities to acquisitions succeed, whereas those by vulnerable communities who are more badly placed do not. Acquisition of land is often not made for
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Land acquisition and rehabilitation & resettlement bill (LARR), 2011 - General problems and specific deficiences
Land acquisition and rehabilitation & resettlement bill (LARR), 2011 - General problems and specific deficiences.
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Soon, clarity on norms for forestry clearances
Subhash Narayan The Union Cabinet is all set to bring clarity and finalise procedures for forestry clearance of projects that involve large-scale displacement of tribal population.
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2010, a year of struggle for food for people of Manipur
Imphal, Dec 27: Manipur faced extreme hardship in the year 2010 and people still continue to fight to ward off the hard days as they prepare to welcome the New Year. Employees stir, blockade on national highway, non availability of essential items, holding of Autonomous District Council election, death of Speaker were the main headlines of 2010.
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Lives on Lease
The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya
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African farmers displaced as investors move in
Neil MacFarquhar Stunned villagers are finding that governments have been leasing land, often for decades. The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya's leader, Col.
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Rich nations displace Africans for arable land
NEIL MACFARQUHAR SOUMOUNI (MALI) A World Bank study tallied farmland deals covering at least 110 million acres announced during the first 11 months of 2009 alone. The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-tomouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya's leader, Col.