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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Migration and global environmental change: future challenges and opportunities
<p><span id="itro1">This new report focuses on how human population movements across the world could be affected by global environmental changes between now and 2060.</span></p> <p>This report considers
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Oil-induced displacement and resettlement: social problem and human rights issue
Extraction and transportation of mineral resources today presents an increasing social problem, leading to environmental damage and the violation of human rights. In addition to economic and social controversies
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India Cabinet Approves New Mining Bill
The Indian cabinet Friday approved the draft of a law that seeks to attract investments in mining by simplifying rules and smoothening land acquisitions through higher compensation to people displaced,
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Draft Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2011
<p><span id="itro1">This bill approved by the union cabinet provides for mining companies to keep aside 26 per cent of their net profits for a mineral development fund to be used for the development and
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8.5 million displaced by floods, cabinet told
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has appealed to the nation and international community to donate generously for the badly flood-affected people of Sindh and Balochistan. The Minister for Information
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No discrimination in MoEF clearances, Centre tells HC
There is no distinction made by the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) in their notification regarding different projects where the state governments have to take prior permission, the Central government
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Rehab Package for dam project affected
City and Industrial Development Corporation ( CIDCO) has sanctioned a Rs 217.57 crore rehabilitation package for the villagers who would be displaced/ affected due to the construction of Balganga reservoir
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Singrauli ninth highest polluted industrial block in country: Report
The Greenpeace fact finding report states that Singrauli is the ninth highest in the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) amongst 88 highly polluted industrial blocks in the country. The
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UNHCR to build 1,000 shelters in Orakzai
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) donated $1.8 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the agency’s efforts in building permanent
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MMRDA hands over Project Affected Persons' rehabilitation work to BMC
At a time when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are known not to have the best of relations, the former has agreed to hand over