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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Tribal women hit hardest by development: study
When displaced by development projects, many migrate to cities as servants, some are lured into prostitution A study conducted by Centre for Development Studies (CDS) on impact of development on tribal
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Farmers protest to get back their land
510 Hectare Acquired By State Govt For Township Lucknow: Just when the Centre gears up to clear the way for the long-pending land acquisition bill, a group of farmers from five villages near Agra havestarted a protest march to Lucknow seeking return of their land acquired by the state government for a township tobedevelopedby theJaypee Group. The agitation comes close on the heels of resentment brewing amongst farmers in Bhatta Parsaul which saw a raging protest by farmers who have not only been demanding return of their land but also release of their leaders who were put behind the bars by the then BSP government.
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Govt set to clear policy on children
With an aim to ensure survival, health and nutrition as an inalienable right of every child and special care for kids caught in sectarian violence, the government is all set to clear National Policy for Children 2012, which is high on the agenda of the Union Cabinet that will meet on Thursday. Sources in the government confirmed that a proposal on the issue from the ministry of women and child development (WSD) is likely to be taken up for consideration at the meeting of the Union Cabinet, which will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Supreme Court judgement dated 18/04/2013 in W.P.(C) No.180/2011 Orissa Mining Corpn. Vs. MoEF & Ors
<p>Supreme Court has continued a ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha considered sacred by tribals. Read text of this order dated 18 April 2013</p>
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New scheme to help mining dependent to take up agriculture
PANJIM: State government is in the process of framing a scheme for mining dependent people to help them make the transition from mining to agriculture, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the State Assembly on Tuesday. Parrikar also said that the State Mineral Policy, which is currently at the draft stage, will spell out government’s proposal to clear off mining rejects in agriculture properties to bring the wasteland into cultivable agriculture land.
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Ramesh for 20-yr mining freeze in AP tribal areas
Union minister says it only leads to increased Maoist activity in the areas Arguing that mining in tribal areas would lead to increased Maoist activity, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has called for a 20-year moratorium on mining projects that affect the livelihood sources of the tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh. “Nowhere in the country has mining benefited the tribals. Only a few outsiders became rich while the locals remained poor,” Ramesh said while addressing a public meeting at GK Veedhi, a remote tribal hamlet in the coastal Andhra district of Visakhapatnam.
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Anti-Posco villagers vow to oppose plant
DHINKIA: A large number of anti-Posco villagers, including women and children, defied the prohibitory order of the administration on Tuesday and organized a protest meeting at Patana haat under Dhinkia gram panchayat after the cremation of three bomb blast victims. The bodies of Narahari Sahoo, Tarun Mandal and Manas Jena killed in a bomb blast on Saturday, were cremated in Patana village in the presence of family members, anti-Posco villagers and leaders of several opposition parties.
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Locals oppose proposed freight corridor detour through Dahanu
A proposed 12-km detour of the new Dedicated Freight Corridor passing through the ecologically fragile taluka of Dahanu in Thane district has raised protests from local farmers, including tribals, and
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HC seeks government's stand on proposed Kovvada nuclear power plant
The AP High Court on Monday directed the counsels representing the state and the Centre to inform it within a week their stand on a petition that challenged the setting up of a nuclear power plant at Kovvada
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Environmentally-induced displacement and human security
The objective of this work is to draw attention to the impact of climate change on internal displacement as an important factor affecting the security of millions of inhabitants of our planet. Relevant