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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NGT refuses to quash Renuka dam’s environmental clearance
The national capital’s water woes may soon come to an end with the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday giving its nod to the 40 MW Renuka hydro-power project in Himachal Pradesh and refusing to quash the
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Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding the Renuka Dam project across river Giri, 02/02/2016
<p>Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Puran Chand & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh through its Secretary Environment to the Government of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated
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Congress climate change rally in boats on Brahmaputra
GUWAHATI: All Assam Congress Committee (APCC) on Tuesday organized a volunteers' meet on Global Climate Change and its impact on Assam. What is unique about the meeting is that it is held in boats on
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More than 1,500 displaced as floods hit Aceh, Indonesia
JAKARTA - As many as 1,505 people have taken shelters at higher grounds as floods hit Aceh Utara district of Indonesia's Aceh province, a government spokesman said in Jakarta Monday. Due to heavy downpours
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Angola: Heavy Rains Make Over 10.000 People Homeless in Chongoroi
Chongoroi — Mrore than 10.000 people were made homeless in the communes of Bolonguera and Camuine, Chongoroi municipality, central Benguela province, by the heavy rains that hit the region, thus cutting
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Torrential rains in Mozambique displace 140 families
Mozambique’s relief agency, the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) says about 140 families were left homeless following heavy rains that pounded the Montepuez district in the country’s northern
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Floods in Uruguay Force More to Leave Their Homes
MONTEVIDEO – The number of people forced from their homes by flooding across four northwestern provinces has increased to 21,991 people, Uruguay’s National Emergency System, or Sinae, said on Wednesday.
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Sudan: Many Darfur Displaced Affected By the Cold
The cold wave that currently strikes Darfur is causing catarrhs and inflammations in the chest to many people living in the camps for the displaced, especially children and the elderly. A sheikh in
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Legal limbo awaits millions of future ‘climate refugees’
NEW DELHI – Farmer Ajmad Miyah has given up on ever settling down again. Three years after the sea swallowed his home on the Bangladeshi coast, he still has no property or possessions, and survives by
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Kenya: 100 Homeless as Flash Floods Ravage Meru
More than 100 people are homeless after flash floods swept away their houses in Ruiri Rwarera ward, Buuri constituency. Area MCA Jackson Muriiki said the rains, which started last week on Saturday,