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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Pong Dam oustees to launch fast if demands not met
Members of Pong Dam Oustees Multipurpose Cooperative Samiti staged a token protest dharna on the premises of the Deputy Commissioner (Relief and Rehabilitation) office at Raja Ka Talab near here yesterday.
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Party manifestos mum on pollution in rivers
Pollution in Yamuna or Ganga do not figure in the manifestos of the capital’s three major political parties nor does any focused plan on addressing the crisis of rivers. Despite having its roots in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party doesn’t talk about its plans for the extremely polluted Yamuna. With little progress made on the Ganga and Yamuna action plans, the Congress merely aims to “clean rivers on a large scale”. The BJP, meanwhile, continues to pitch its controversial pet project—interlinking of rivers. Environmentalists say little thought has gone into addressing urgent ecological concerns like the state of rivers or their position on dams.
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Displaced slum dwellers upset with political leaders for being ignored
Displaced from their homes, denied the promised plot of land in lieu, having survived a major fire – which many of them believe was deliberate – and the onslaught of bulldozers, the residents of the resettlement
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Campaign for survival and dignity: Open letter to Wildlife Conservation Groups on Supreme Court petition
Campaign for survival and dignity: Open letter to Wildlife Conservation Groups on Supreme Court petition.
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Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding cutting of trees in the Reserved Forest area, District Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh & relocation and rehabilitation of villagers displaced from Bori Wildlife Sanctuary of Satpura Tiger Reserve, 04/04/2014
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Jahangeer Ali Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/04/2014 regarding cutting of trees in the cutting of trees in the
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Climate change, development, and migration: an African Diaspora perspective
This paper represents an input to sensitize Diaspora around issues of climate change and development. Diaspora communities can instigate policy change both in their old and new homelands. Especially in
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Will political parties rehabilitate 4.25 lakh flood affected people?
Elections come and go. But the situation of the flood affected people who have lost their land and properties to the yearly floods of the state remain unchanged. As per a latest estimate by the Water Resource
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Dalit & Adivasi agenda for 2014 Elections
The Centre for Dalit Studies (CDS) released an eight-page ‘Dalit and Adivasi Agenda’, a manifesto containing demands from people across 22 different areas, to be circulated among all political parties
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Leaked IPCC report predicts violent conflict due to global warming
A leaked report of the United Nations panel has predicted severe impacts of global warming on food-grain production, fresh-water resources and human settlements across the globe with Asia facing the brunt
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Climate change set to displace hundreds of millions of people by end of century
A new UN report suggests that climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century, increasing the risk of violent conflict and wiping trillions of dollars off the global