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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Valley of food insecurity and chronic hunger
<p> <span id="itro1">This is a report from Office of the Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners on food-nutrition insecurity and starvation in 15 villages of Alirajpur district, Madhya Pradesh displaced
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Acquisition made easy
<p> </p> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tribals continue to be at the highest risk of eviction as their regions have the largest number of pending development programmes. And tbey suffer the most even when it comes to land-to-land compensation package. But the new land acquisition bill won’t bring relief to tribals says Richard Mohapatra. </div>
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Fasts, hunger and hunger strikes
How the State has responded to the fasts of Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev and Medha Patkar and how the media has portrayed them are a study in contrasts and say something about our society.
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Land acquisition law and the proposed changes
An analysis of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and its interpretation by the courts shows that the holder or tenant of the land has suffered in major ways. It gives the government complete power to acquire
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Posco: Agnivesh offers to facilitate talks
Bhubaneswar: Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Saturday said peaceful settlement of Posco impasse was possible through talks and offered to work as a facilitator between the Odisha government and anti- Posco agitators. Peaceful settlement of the Posco issue is quite possible.
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Earmark land 50 yrs prior setting up any industry
Identifying land and water as the two most crucial prerequisites for promoting industrialisation, Planning Commission has asked the government to earmark land allotment 25-50 years in advance of actual setting up of any utility.
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Tribal min wants say in nod for mega projects
New Delhi:There may soon be another layer of clearance for mega projects like Posco with the Centre considering the demand that the Union tribal affairs ministry be made a mandatory clearing house for proposals which displace STs. A committee of secretaries has been set up to look into the demand made by tribal affairs minister Kantilal Bhuria to the PM.
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Don’t stop the andolan
RECENTLY, THERE has been an attempt to besmirch the reputation of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in the public eye. Greater concern attaches to the fact that on 11 May, the Supreme Court (SC) criticised
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Sharing the wealth of minerals: a report on profit sharing with local communities
<p>Mining companies must share profits with local communities says this latest CSE report. Supports the proposal to share 26 per cent net profits and shows that mining industry’s opposition to this has no basis.</p>
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Tribal movements and livelihoods: recent developments in Orissa
For the last few decades and more particularly since 1990’s the issue of human rights-violation of rights to life and livelihood of tribal peoples’ is a central concern. Therefore, the discourse on tribal