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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JSPL oustees threaten economic blockade
ANGUL: The affected villagers of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) have threatened economic blockade protesting delay in convening of the Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee
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Rs 41b compensation for Diamir-Bhasha Dam affectees
Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan called on Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at Prime Minister’s House Thursday and appreciated him for his keen interest in
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Rising sea levels threaten islanders with displacement
A significant rise in sea levels due to global warming could result in the loss of species and habitats in the coastal areas of more than a thousand islands in South-East Asia and the Pacific region, leading
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UN ready to provide help to flood-hit India, Bangladesh
United Nations The UN is monitoring the floods situation in India and Bangladesh and is ready to provide assistance to the countries where more than a million people have been displaced due to heavy monsoon
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Thousands march against dams in MP
Thousands of people affected by the Omkareshwar, Maheshwar, Indira Sagar, Upper Beda and Man dams responded to a call by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and joined a protest march at Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday to raise their voice against the state government decision to raise the water level in Omkares-hwar Dam up to 193 metres. After the protest march, the people affected by the dams announced that they would start a “Jal Satyagrah” from July 16 against what they described as a “conspiracy” by the state government and the private company involved in the project to uproot the dam affected people without their rehabilitation or proper resettlement.
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Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration
Papers presented at a conference held on 21 September 2011 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The symposium will serve as a platform to discuss the links between climate change, water stress, migration and
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Development aggression as economic growth: report of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
This new report focuses on impacts of implementation of the development model espoused by governments, international financial institutions and corporations in relation to the exercise of indigenous peoples’ collective rights.
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Coal projects face land-losers’ wrath
RANIGANJ, 28 JUNE: The coal projects in the state have always faced hurdles, be it in the form of the unyielding attitude of the land losing community or the usual cries of protest of the persons who have
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Tribal settlement to be shifted from tiger reserve
Members of Kadar tribe to be relocated to Vazhachal The settlement of the Kadar tribe at Kuriyarkutty, 8 km inside the core area of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, will now be shifted to Vazhachal as per the wishes of the majority of this primitive tribal group. The authorities had been trying to shift them for long but only 72 of the 78 families had agreed to the resettlement scheme. “Unless all the 78 families consented to the relocation, the project cannot be implemented,” said K. Vijayanandan, the Wildlife Warden of the reserve.
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After farmers, fishermen at loggerheads with industries
SAMBALPUR: Displaced by Hirakud dam project, the fishermen residing in periphery villages of Hirakud dam reservoir (HDR) are finding it difficult to eke out a living. While the fish population in the HDR