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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Massive canal project to displace 3.3L in China
Beijing: China has taken up what would prove to be one of the world
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Over 11 mln Displaced In Central, East Africa - UN
The number of people displaced by conflict and natural disaster in Central and East Africa is now more than 11 million, the United Nations said on Monday.
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17m Bangladeshis to be displaced: Sea level rise due to meltdown of West Antarctic ice
More than 17 million people in Bangladesh would be displaced by a sea level rise of 1.5 metres, warned Jonathan Bamber, a professor at Bristol University in England, disclosing a study report which found that a collapse of the ice sheet of West Antarctica would push up world sea levels by 3.3 metres (11 ft) over hundreds of years.
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Special Economic Zones: Socio-economic implications
This report of a conference held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study on special economic zones raises doubts about their desirability on different counts. It is centred around three themes: (1) SEZs and economic development; (2) SEZs and distributive implications; and (3) SEZs and the legal issues.
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Naik, Patkar take up cudgels for Metro rail project-affected
MUMBAI: Former Union minister Ram Naik and National Alliance of People's Movements leader Medha Patkar have come out strongly against the displacement of thousands of families from Laljipada in Charkop which is to be acquired for a carshed for Mumbai Metro's second line from Charkop to Mankhurd via Bandra.
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A thousand suggestions for a single Metro corridor
Mumbai * We have been living in the area for nearly three decades now. We run businesses here and now the government wants to raze it for a metro car shed at Charkop. We cannot allow this. * Limited open spaces cannot be occupied by overhead metro, when underground metro can be opted for.
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Storm Death Toll In Philippines Jumps To 36
The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by a typhoon in the northern Philippines has more than doubled to 36, with 12 people still missing, the government said on Sunday.
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Flood displaced people of Majuli
JORHAT, May 7: The flood displaced people of Majuli, the reverine island of Asom, are still residing on the embankment at North-West Jorhat under Dergaon legislative assembly constituency. As many as forty families which are displaced from their original homesteads of Majuli are still languishing in the open at no. 8 spur along the river Brahmaputra for the last few decades.
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Final order of Karnataka State Human Rights Commission on the Upper Krishna Project
The order of KSHRC in respect of a petition filed by project affected people under the Upper Krishna Project, as more than 30000 population of Bagalkot city has been deprived of their right to life and livelihood due to compulsory acquisition of their properties because of submersion under the backwaters of Almatti dam across Krishna river.
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In search of shelter: mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement
This report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of