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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Floods displace 15 families; girl, mom swept away
KHOTANG: A mother and her daughter have gone missing after they were swept away by the flooded Tawakhola River at Mattim VDC of Khotang yesterday night. The swollen river, triggered by heavy rainfall,
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A contribution to the selection of tsunami human vulnerability indicators: conclusions from tsunami impacts in Sri Lanka and Thailand (2004), Samoa (2009), Chile (2010) and Japan (2011)
<p>After several tsunami events with disastrous consequences around the world, coastal countries have realized the need to be prepared to minimize human mortality and damage to coastal infrastructures,
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Shifting cultivation, livelihood and food security: new and old challenges for indigenous peoples in Asia
In August 2010 the FAO adopted a policy on indigenous and tribal peoples in order to ensure the relevance of its efforts to respect, include, and promote indigenous people’s related issues in its general
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HC vacates stay on Polavaram compensation
The High Court on Monday allowed the government to go ahead with its process of paying compensation to farmers displaced by the right bank canal of the Polavaram project in West Godavari and Krishna districts.
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Kute land losers demand 2-crore compensation
The displaced villagers at Kute on Sunday demanded Rs 2 crore per acre in compensation for the land acquired by the state government for the new assembly building. This comes two days before chief minister
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The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Second Ordinance, 2015
An Ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
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Peru planning to dam Amazon’s main source and displace 1000s
Who said large-scale hydropower was out? As an article published by Climate Central recently noted, it has now been omitted from the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual reports on renewable
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Mozambique Agriculture Plan Could Displace 100,000 Farmers- Activists
Mozambique is mulling a plan to lease 240,000 hectares of prime farmland to investors to grow crops for export, threatening to displace more than 100,000 local residents, activists and academics said,
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NGT issues notice over Lower Suktel project
The National Green Tribunal has asked the Odisha government, Ministry of Environment and Forest, to file their reply within four weeks as to why the injunction will not be granted in respect of ongoing
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European Union helps treat malnutrition among Sudan’s most vulnerable
KHARTOUM - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of €9 million (US$9.7 million) from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO)