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
-
Counting conflict-induced internally displaced persons in India
Armed conflict and communal or ethnic violence have continued to cause massive displacement in India. The country is in need of amending its policies in accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles
-
Assessing the evidence: migration, environment and climate change in Kenya
The aim of this assessment report is twofold, such that it: maps the migration– environment nexus in Kenya by looking at human mobility due to environmental change; and examines existing policy and legal
-
Villagers in southern India battle reservoir that will submerge their homes
The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against the southern state's plans to acquire
-
3,000 displaced, shifted to rehabilitation centres in Hyderabad
1,000 families take shelter with relatives. Hyderabad: Nearly 3,000 people have been displaced in the city due to heavy rains in the last two days and shifted to rehabilitation centres established in
-
Somalia food crisis: 300,000 children need help, says UN
Flash floods have destroyed crops in Somalia leaving nearly half the population short of food Nearly five million people in Somalia are suffering from a shortage of food due to poor rainfall, floods and
-
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding Environment Clearance (EC) granted for the widening of NH – 47 and NH – 47 B (between Kaliakavilai and Nagercoil), 14/09/2016
<p>Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Conservation of Nature Trust & Others Vs District Collector Kanyakumari District. Nagercoil & Others regarding
-
Forests & finance
<p>Banks from Malaysia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and Europe are the biggest financiers of 50 selected forest-risk sector companies in Southeast Asia.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://forestsandfinance.org/"
-
“Adopt integrated approach to combat climate change”
The need for adopting an integrated approach in mitigation measures to manage problems of climate change was emphasised at a meeting organised by the Madurai Productivity Council and Aditya Medical Trust
-
Assam CM takes stock of rhinos rescued from floods in Kaziranga
Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday took stock of nine baby rhinos rescued from the recent spate of floods and kept at a rehabilitation centre in the Kaziranga national park. Sonowal
-
Trade unions oppose sports complex in steel plant land
Visakhapatnam: Even as the state government has planned to develop an integrated sports complex by taking over lands from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), several trade unions associated with the steel