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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Forget Mumbai
"It was the Urbs Prima in Indis but it is now at best an imperfect city," says the Mumbai Human Development Report-2009 about the city. The report, copyrighted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and developed with the United Nations Development Programme, India, indicates that the solution to decongesting Mumbai is to make it less attractive to migrants.
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Flash Floods In Pakistan Kill At Least 27, U.N. Says
At least 27 people have died in northwestern Pakistan and nine are missing in flash floods since the weekend that have also destroyed houses, crops and livestock, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The final toll could be higher," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the U.N. Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), told a news conference in Geneva.
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White paper silent on specific problems
BHUBANESWAR: The anti-industrialist forces in the State were in the news for opposing establishment of different projects in Orissa during 2008. According to the white paper circulated by the Home Department, the displaced and the affected persons also launched agitations during the year. But the local administrations were able to minimise the loss by taking appropriate measures, it added.
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Floods displace over 80 families in Bajura
About 82 families in Bajura district have become homeless due to floods and subsequent landslide. In Kuldevmandau VDC, 6o families have been displaced and other 22 in Kailashmandau-6 VDC. The VDC office informed that some seven families of Bane village have been taking shelter in a local school while other 27 families of Kavra village have been taking refuge in a nearby forest.
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The real divide in Bastar
The large rally-cum-publicmeeting of adivasi peasants, organised by the Bastar Sambhag Kisan Sangharsh Samiti on 1 June in Jagdalpur, opposing the construction of the Bodh Ghat dam and the privatisation of mines and river water resources was an eye-opener.
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Flood displaces over 2 lakh people in Assam; two killed
Guwahati: A wave of flood, triggered by incessant rains along the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh and eastern Assam districts, has killed two persons and inundated hundreds of hectares of crop land rendering over two lakh people homeless so far in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts where rivers, on spate, have overtopped embankments in many places disrupting surface communication.
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Old War, New Bodies
Gujarat, MP and Maharashtra governments want the dam to go higher, but SC says every oustee should first be rehabilitated
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A slow but sure step forward
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The very fact that the government is thinking of a rehabilitation law and of amending the Land Acquisition Act is an achievement for public opinion.
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Jharia rehab panel loses bite
The Jharia Rehabilitation and Development Authority (JRDA), in-charge of relocating thousands of families who will have to vacate their homes on the mining town
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Jharia rehab drive under fire
Dissatisfied with the progress of the ongoing fire zone rehabilitation, Jharia Coalfield Bachao Samiti, a frontal organisation fighting against forced evacuation, has decided to launch awareness campaigns among school students and masses, along with a peace rally pressing for residents