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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NHRC slaps notice to govt on injustice to victims
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a final reminder to the chief secretary of Odisha to furnish action taken report and proof of the payment of compensation to the displaced in the
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The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011
Standing Committee on Rural Development (2011-12) present this Thirty First Report (15th Lok Sabha) on "the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011‘ relating to the Ministry of Rural
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Human rights in India: status report 2012
This brief status report of human rights in India gives a general overview of the most critical human rights issues in India today. It has been drafted by the Working Group on Human Rights in India and
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An ill wind? Climate change, migration, and health
Climate change is projected to cause substantial increases in population movement in coming decades. Previous research has considered the likely causal influences and magnitude of such movements and the
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Climate displacement in Bangladesh
<p>This report comprehensively examines the scope and causes of climate....</p> <p><a href="http://sa.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/climate-displacement-bangladesh" target="_parent"><img alt="Read more" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/bangladesh/read_more.jpg" style="width: 70px; height: 20px; float: right;" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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Villagers demand resumption of power projects in Uttarakhand
A group of villagers, affected by the stalling of the Him Urja Vidyut Pariyojna at Nandprayag and Vishnugad Vidyut Pariyojna at Pipalkoti, staged a symbolic chakka jam on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway at Pipalkoti on Sunday, threatening self-immolation if the government didn't order the resumption of construction work there. Unhappy with the government for first promising power and revenue generation opportunities to the affected villagers while taking away their lands, and later scrapping the projects at the instance of some environmentalists, the villagers — mostly women — threatened self-immolation if work wasn't resumed by May 10.
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Forest fires man-made act, says PCCF report
The fire which ravaged several forests of the State this February was not an accident but a man-made act, according to the report of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife). B K Singh, PCCF, in his report to the State government, has stated that a total of 3,624 hectares of forest land were affected by the fire. However, there has been no damage to the flora and fauna or the wildlife in the forests, except 460 hectares in Nagarahole National Park.
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Delhi Metro Rail - Beyond mass transit
A decade has gone since the first line of metro started in Delhi in 2002. Despite its expansion across the city in the past 10 years neither pollution nor congestion levels have gone down as claimed by
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POSCO’s steel dreams laid to rust
On 30 March 2012, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) delivered a judgment that has sent India’s largest FDI back to the drawing table. In the landmark order, the NGT suspended the conditional environment
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India Won't Meet Hydropower Capacity Expansion Targets
India has slashed its target for increased hydropower generating capacity over the next five years due to delays in environmental approvals and difficulties over land acquisitions and water rights, something