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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Activists reject land, rehab laws
On February 11, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development had issued advertisements inviting comments on the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill by February 22. The deadline for comments was very short. Activists were justifiably worried and suspicious. The committee looked like it was in a tearing hurry. (April 2008)
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Uniting villagers for forest rights
The National Forum for Forest People and Forest Workers (NFFPFW) organised a two-day national conference on February 24 and 25 to discuss ambiguities in the new Scheduled Tribes and other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act and how such hurdles could be overcome. (April 2008)
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Protecting health from climate change: World Health Day 2008
In 2008, World Health Day focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.
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Parks and poverty: The political ecology of conservation
In 2004, the government of Ethiopia moved 500 people out of the Nech Sar National Park in the south of the country, before handing it over to be managed by the Dutch NGO, African Parks. The following year, African Parks signed another contract to manage the Omo National Park. The issue of evictions in these parks quickly became the subject of intense lobbying by international human rights NGOs.
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Gateway of India will be under water by 2100'
The Gateway of India will be wiped off the Mumbai skyline. Bhelpuri at Chowpatty will become the stuff of grandmother's tales. No flights will take off from Chhatrapati Shivaji airport.
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S Asia most vulnerable to global warming: Greenpeace
Greenpeace India, an international environmental organisation, has launched its paper, Blue Alert- climate migrants in South Asia: Estimates and solutions, in the city on Tuesday.
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POSCO-India postpones groundbreaking ceremony
Steelmaker POSCO-India on Monday dropped its plan to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the proposed 12 million tonne per annum mega steel project in Orissa on April 1.
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Struggle will continue till the end, say people affected by Maheshwar dam
People affected by the Maheshwar dam taking out a rally in Mandleshwar on Sunday to protest against the Maheshwar Project.
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Thwarting corporate capture of land: The Alibag struggle
This article chronicles the peaceful struggle and eventual success of the people of Alibag, Maharashtra, against the attempts by corporate bodies, with the help of the state government, to grab land f
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Book review: Environmental issues in India
Book>> Environmental Issues in India: a Reader