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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Big dams are bad news
Private companies investing in dams is bad news for the environment
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MALAYSIA
Klang Valley residents expressed concern over environmental damage that the Sungai Selangor dam project may cause. After experiencing dry taps in 1998, people of the Klang Valley made it clear
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Small is more
A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals
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Confrontation mine
The Paroja Kondha tribe of southwest Orissa are waging a battle to save their forests and rivers from mining companies and a profit driven government
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Nowhere to go
The new land Bill will make it easier to displace the poor in the name of development, say experts
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Green signal?
The Supreme Court gives its go ahead for work on the Narmada dam
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NO TO DAMS
There are massive protests all over Pakistan against the proposed construction of the dams. Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to construct Kalbagh dam in the North-West Frontier
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Brazil
Porto Privamera Dam, which is under construction for the last 20 years, may soon be commissioned. The dam will have serious environmental and social implications as it is being commissioned
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Five star exploitation
About 150 families in village Velaghat in district Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, have been issued eviction notices to vacate their homes for a five-star hotel to be constructed by the Taj Group.
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Malaysia
The swirl of rumour, assertion and denials which has long surrounded Malaysia's Bakun Dam continues despite Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed's late-1997 announcement of the project's indefinite