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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Mohali-Phagwara highway move opposed
Questioning the need of second highway from Mohali to Phagwara via Machhiwara and Nawanshahr areas, the Congress said today the project would be sheer waste of money and lead to the displacement of thousands of farmers.
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Resettlement and rehabilitation in urban centres
The World Bank
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Environment and social management framework: GEF - Sustainable Urban Transport Project, India
This document lays down the guidelines to address the environment and social safeguard impacts of the green transport projects in selected cities of India, to be taken up under the sustainable urban transport project of the Ministry of urban development.
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Flood disasters and forest villagers in sub-Himalayan Bengal
Conservation policies to protect wildlife and biodiversity ignore the basic survival needs and imperatives of local people. This article aims to show how conservation policies trigger floods in protected areas, especially those located in the foothills of the Himalayan mountain ranges, leading to huge damage to plantations and habitats as well as settlements of the local people.
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CPI(M) demands proper rehab in Singrauli
By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, Jan 22: Demanding adequate rehabilitation package in Singrauli before farmers' displacement, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Madhya Pradesh Secretary Badal Saroj today said the party was not against industrialisation in the state.
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Decades of delay jack up Subernarekha project costs
OUR CORRESPONDENT Officials at a review meeting. Pix: Srinivas Jamshedpur, Jan. 15: The cost of the ambitious Subernarekha Multipurpose Project (SMP) has swelled to Rs 5,500 crore.
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'Qahar' to be screened at Environment Fest
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow Film-maker Sanjay Mathur's film 'Qahar' will be screened at the prestigious three-day Enviornment Fest that opens on Thursday. The festival is being organised by Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies at the City Montessori School auditorium.
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Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the relationship between climate change and human rights
This report seeks to outline main aspects of the relationship between climate change and human rights. Climate change debates have traditionally focused on scientific, environmental and economic aspects.
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Blood for land
No land for power plant, no entry to outsiders, say villagers THIRTY kilometres from Dumka town in Jharkhand is a village where 150 families are resolute about not giving up their land for a proposed power plant. Bloodshed only made their resolve stronger when on December 6, 2008, one villager was killed and 10 injured in a clash with the police. Now, entry to Aamgachhi village is blocked
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Impacts of climate change: Bangladesh may suffer severely
DU Correspondent