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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Climate fallout to trigger migration ADB study focuses on more challenges for Bangladesh
Bangladesh will face mounting challenge of resettling and rehabilitating the people displaced by climate change, says an Asian Development Bank study. The country is already at high risk of catastrophic environmental hazards and floods from sea surges, river flow, rainfall and coastal and riverbank erosion that are likely to force more people from their home. Those together with economic fac
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Analysis of the draft EIA/EMP report for Durgapur II Sariya coal block
Analysis of the draft EIA/EMP report for Durgapur II
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NREGS turning into a revolution gathering force
It was launched in 2006 to ensure livelihood security for the rural poor.
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Tripuras request for amending Forest Dwellers Act turned down
Agartala, Jan 31: The Centre has turned down Tripura government
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Vedanta coalmine proposal fuels villagers' displacement fears
More than a thousand villagers from Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Raigarh district have expressed their opposition to a mine proposed by Vedanta Resources, a giant multinational. Vedanta, if granted clearance, hopes to mine four million tonnes of coal a year to fuel the expansion of its 810-MW captive power plant on the Bharat Aluminum Company (BALCO) premises in Korba, Chhattisgarh. Vedanta acquir
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Protecting environmentally displaced people: developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks
Based on evidence collected in four exemplar countries – Kenya, Bangladesh, Ghana and Vietnam – the overall aim of the study is to investigate the capacity of national legal frameworks to protect and mediate
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NHRC seeks State's report card on resettlment
BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took a strong note of the land acquisition policy of the State Government relating to Vedanta and directed that steps be taken to ensure that all the affected persons are rehabilitated. Addressing mediapersons here after the two-day camp sitting here on Wednesday, chairperson Justice K G Balakrishnan said the commission has asked its spec
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Chavan for `open house' on Jaitapur
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has decided to call an
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Sheopur upset with Gujarat Govt
Taking cue from State Forest officials, residents in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh have also slammed the decision of the Gujarat Government to disallow the translocation of Asiatic lions to the Palpur-Kuno sanctuary. The residents have described the Gujarat Government's move as anti-tourism, and one that will hamper employment prospects in the area. Top forest officials in Madhya Prades
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Villagers agitation hits coal supply to Talcher
TALCHER: Coal supply to NTPC-owned Talcher Super Thermal Power plant (TSTPP) from Lingaraj coal mine came to a halt today following agitation by villagers. Hundreds of Balugana villagers led by local sarpanch Rangadhar Nahak stopped all activities, including transport, in the mine. They also laid siege to the offices of the general manager and project officer demanding jobs to 85 land ouste