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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CS holds meet over shifting of villages from 3 tiger reserves
Jaipur: Chief secretary D B Gupta on Tuesday took a meeting of the wildlife officials to discuss relocation of villages from three tiger reserves in Rajasthan. The process was halted for last few years
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Disaster displacement: a global review, 2008-2018
This report is a first attempt to take comprehensive stock of the disaster displacement data that is collected and published at the global level, and it reveals a number of inconsistencies. These include
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Hyderabad: Residents displaced for mining yet to be paid
Compensation settlement for land evacuees and other affected dwellers have not been completed even after 10 years. Kothagudem: The land acquisition process for the open cast mines of the Singareni Collieries
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Extensive flooding in eastern Canada forces evacuations
Flooding in eastern Canada forced the evacuation of 1,200 people while more than 600 troops have been deployed in response, authorities said Sunday. Warming weather over the Easter weekend has brought
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UN agency says drought displaces over 137,000 Somalis in 3 months
Severe drought ravaging Somalia, coupled with conflict and evictions, has displaced more than 137,000 people from their homes from January to March, the United Nations refugees agency said Thursday.
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Over 42,000 displaced by flood in Afghanistan: OCHA
More than 42,000 Afghans have been displaced following flooding in the country within the past one month and most needs supplies, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported
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Forced evictions in India in 2018: an unabating national crisis
More than 2 lakh people were forcibly evicted and over 40,000 houses demolished across India last year, according to a report released by the Housing and Land Rights Network. The estimates show that over
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UN seeks to feed 500,000 school children in South Sudan as hunger bites
For 18-year-old Rebecca Adara, a plate of boiled wholegrain sorghum is enough to keep her strong and attentive all day round at school. "The feeding program has helped me to concentrate on my studies
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Cyclone Idai's death toll rises to 707; hundreds of thousands displaced
Hundreds of thousands of people are in need of food, water and shelter after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. As of Wednesday, at least 707 people had been reported killed by the
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Rwanda steps up measures to combat natural disasters
The Rwandan government has stepped up measures to reduce the effects of natural disasters in the country, Rwandan minister of emergency management Germaine Kamayirese said Wednesday. The measures include