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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MP government to net in fisherfolk's body
the future of the Tawa Matsya Sangh (tms), Madhya Pradesh's highly acclaimed federation of fisherfolk cooperatives, is at stake. The Madhya Pradesh (mp) government is contemplating taking over the
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Churning issue
Does the concept of interlinking India's rivers hold water? The debate rages on...
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Impoverishment risks and reconstruction: a model for population displacement and resettlement
During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period. Thus, by their frequency, size, ad the dire consequences, development-cased displacements have become a problem of worldwide proportions.
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Displacing a livelihood
How do we rehabilitate development project oustees?
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Solutions unbound
Besides being largely impractical, the land for land approach to the rehabilitation debate is patronising, to say the least
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Avoiding new poverty: mining-induced displacement and resettlement
The problem of mining-induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR) poses major risks to societal sustainability. Unfortunately, no global survey has assessed the scale of MIDR. Available evidence suggests that the problem is significant. Mining displaced 2.55 million people in India between 1950 and 1990. The likelihood that MIDR will be a significant issue
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Water: Charting a course for the future I
<p>Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.
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KOEL KARO
A report compiled by the Delhi Forum, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, on Koel Karo killings of February 2, 2001, has alleged that the police fired at unarmed protestors without any
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Putting in place
Resettlement and rehabilitation of persons displaced by land acquisitions must form a part of the Land Acquisition Act, says NHRC
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Fishing in troubled waters
People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada s biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural resources