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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Mega-disasters and urbanization spur spike in displacement: report
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people forced from their homes each year by disasters has quadrupled over the past four decades, and the risk of being displaced has doubled,
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on acquisition of tribal land, 11/03/2015
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on acquisition of tribal land , 11/03/2015.
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250,000 Japanese still displaced 4 years after quake
When a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, Yumi Kanno did not hesitate. She grabbed her 2-year-old son and aging in-laws and fled to her
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Debate in Lok Sabha on Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015, 09/03/2015
Debate in Lok Sabha on Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015, 09/03/2015.
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Brahmaputra renders 36,981 families homeless in five years
The voracious Brahmaputra has rendered homeless as many as 36,981 families by eroding their lands and houses across Assam in the past five years, the State Assembly was informed today. In his written
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Disaster-related displacement risk: measuring the risk and addressing its drivers
The report forecasts an increased risk of global displacement caused by disasters, and calls for a stronger link between displacement and disaster risk reduction. It also applies the concept of risk to
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Tribals stage massive protest in Tapri
Want land back from JP company *Threaten jail bharo andolan on February 26 Thousands of tribals, including project-affected people, workers and farmers from Kinnaur district, today gave a clarion call
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The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015
<p>This controversial Land Acquisition Bill has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on 24 Feb, 2015 amidst opposition and protests.</p>
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Tribals, activists burn copies of land acquisition Ordinance
Hundreds of Dangaria Kandha tribal men and women joined a large group of anti-displacement activists of the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti atop the Niyamgiri hills in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Sunday and
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12 dams that changed the world
Dams illustrate the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one-sixth of the world's electricity and irrigate one-seventh of our food crops. They have flooded land areas the size of