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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Pakistan facing climate 'calamity' if warnings go unheeded
Karachi, 2050: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become
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2015 Global Hunger Index: armed conflict and the challenge of hunger
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious
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Keri’s eco warriors stage play on environment crisis
Keri: As a part of the wildlife week celebration organized by the Goa forest department, volunteers of the Vivekanad environment awareness brigade, Keri presented a street play on Saturday evening at Sanskruti
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Nigeria: Floods Ravage Northern Nigeria, Displace 100,420 People in 11 States
No fewer than 53 people have died in eleven states following flood disasters that displaced more than 100,420 persons this year. A residential house overtaken by flood (insert) the occupants abandon
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Cabinet allots 41ha land for MP's first nuclear power plant
BHOPAL: State cabinet on Tuesday allotted 41.49 hectare land for Chutka Nuclear Power Plant in Mandla district. Land in tribal dominated village Chutka in Narayangunj tehsil has been allotted to Nuclear
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Policy of the State of Kerala for compensation in land acquisition
The state government approved the rules for the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013, which is regarded as a major shot in the arm to
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Women pay the price for Zambia mining expansion
SHINENGENE, Zambia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The women sat quietly in a village church in northwest Zambia, the sun slanting down on their colorful Sunday outfits as they told how life had changed
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More than 3,000 residents of Joso remain evacuated after devastating floods; death toll hits 7
More than 3,000 residents of Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, remained evacuated Sunday after floodwaters from unprecedented rainfall last week inundated vast stretches of residential areas and damaged critical
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146 families displaced in Arunachal floods
At least 146 families rendered homeless in the recent wave of flood at Lower Dibang Valley district with report of 103 dwellings being washed out by flood water. Under the direction of DC Ravi Dhawan,
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Floods displace over 2,000 households in S. Sudan’s Jonglei state
Persistent floods have displaced between 2,000 to 3,000 households in South Sudan’s Jonglei state as a flood mitigation plan was being drafted. The mayor of Bor town, Nhial Majak Nhial, in a press address,