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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State of the worlds indigenous peoples 2010
This latest UN report reveals alarming statistics on how indigenous peoples are faring in areas like health, education, poverty, environment and human rights. Shows that they suffer disproportionately compared to non-indigenous and face systematic discrimination and exclusion.
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Population dynamics and climate change
This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policymaking and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail this threat.
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Land and cultural survival: the communal land rights of indigenous peoples in Asia
Development in Asia faces a crucial issue: the right of indigenous peoples to build a better life while protecting their ancestral lands and cultural identity. An intimate relationship with land expressed in communal ownership has shaped and sustained these cultures over time.
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Tribal movement in Orissa: a struggle against modernisation?
Contemporary India is witnessing a wide number of micro-level social movements struggling against industrialisation, big dams and other similar development projects. This paper looks at the
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India infrastructure report 2009: land - a critical resource for infrastructure
Land is the heart of infrastructure development. The first India Infrastructure Report (IIR), which was brought out in 2001, identified the process of land acquisition as the most important structural constraint to the development of infrastructure. This IIR 2009 to examine various facets of
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Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009: critical assessment & recommendations
<p>Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009: critical assessment & recommendations prepared by constituent members of SANGHARSH (since 2007), a platform of 150 people’s movements and mass organisations engaged in fighting displacement across India.</p>
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The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009 : critical assessment & recommendations
<p>The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009 : critical assessment & recommendations prepared by constituent members of SANGHARSH (since 2007), a platform of 150 people’s movements and mass organisations engaged in fighting displacement across India.<br /> <br /> </p>
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Protests against buying land boost Orissa Naxals
Dillip Satapathy / Bhubaneswar November 23, 2009, 0:53 IST Recently L N Mittal, the world
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Displacement and resettlement management in Thailand
A study of the displacement and resettlement due to two dams, and a protest movement against a smelting plant in Thailand brings out strikingly similar issues with those seen recently in Orissa and West Bengal
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Land acquisition in Gujarat less bloody
Maulik Pathak & Kalpesh Damor / Ahmedabad November 21, 2009, 0:29 IST