Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
NEW DELHI – Farmer Ajmad Miyah has given up on ever settling down again. Three years after the sea swallowed his home on the Bangladeshi coast, he still has no property or possessions, and survives by tilling other people’s fields in exchange for food. “I’ve accepted that this is reality,” …
More than 100 people are homeless after flash floods swept away their houses in Ruiri Rwarera ward, Buuri constituency. Area MCA Jackson Muriiki said the rains, which started last week on Saturday, have washed away 988 acres of crops and vegetation. Speaking in Meru town yesterday, he said the El …
Biodiversity will adversely affect, it says A fact–finding committee of the Organization for Protection of Democratic Rights (OPDR) has said that bauxite mining in the Agency areas of Visakhapatnam would adversely affect biodiversity and destroy forest cover. OPDR general secretary V. Hanumantha Rao stated in a press release that bauxite …
More than half a billion children live in areas with extremely high flood occurrence and 160 million in high drought severity zones, leaving them highly exposed to the impacts of climate change, UNICEF said in a report released ahead of the 21st United Nations climate change conference, known as COP21. …
BHUBANESWAR: After two critically acclaimed films in a row ace film director Sabyasachi Mohapatra is ready with his latest feature film 'Pahada ra luha' (Tears of Mountain) to be released next month. Like his previous films this one also deals with problems of ethnic communities and the changes in their …
A traditional owner of the site of Australia’s largest proposed coalmine has alleged in court that Indian miner Adani misled a tribunal that cleared the way for the mine. Adrian Burragubba has asked the federal court to quash a decision by the native title tribunal that Adani’s Carmichael mine should …
The report, Mining, the Aluminium Industry and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, provides a global overview of the challenges facing indigenous peoples, and presents five case studies from Australia, Cambodia, Guinea, India and Suriname. The case studies reveal that indigenous communities are affected by primary production …
Around 8,000 tribals, who would be directly affected by the proposed mining of bauxite in the 1212 hectares in Jerrila and Chintapalli Reserve Forests for which the government issued orders for diversion of forest land are up in arms. The opposition and resentment with the political leadership is widespread. Men, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Antarsingh Patel & Anr.Vs. Union of India &Ors. dated 28/10/2015 regarding rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) work related to Maheshwar Dam, Madhya Pradesh. NGT in its order said that "there shall be no lowering/closure of the gates causing submergence of the …
Achieving sustainable development is difficult in the Asia-Pacific region without addressing disaster risks says this report released by UNESCAP. It provides an overview of the state of disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific region and identifies emerging new risks in the region and the sectors that are most at risk The Asia …
More alert has been sounded for the Sunderbans tiger on the climate front. Of the 12 species that the National Geographic has highlighted in its current volume on climate change, the Sunderbans tiger has been listed as one that will struggle. "Eventually, they'll need scuba gear to live in the …
Karachi, 2050: The sprawling megacity lies crumbling, desiccated by another deadly heatwave, its millions of inhabitants suffering life-threatening water shortages and unable to buy bread that has become too expensive to eat. It sounds like the stuff of dystopian fiction but it could be the reality Pakistan is facing. With …
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries. These findings come from the 2015 Global Hunger Index …
Keri: As a part of the wildlife week celebration organized by the Goa forest department, volunteers of the Vivekanad environment awareness brigade, Keri presented a street play on Saturday evening at Sanskruti Bhavan's hall in Panaji. The play highlighted the increasing wildlife and environmental crisis situation. "Street plays are a …
No fewer than 53 people have died in eleven states following flood disasters that displaced more than 100,420 persons this year. A residential house overtaken by flood (insert) the occupants abandon their abode for safety The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that thousands of houses, farmlands and property worth …
BHOPAL: State cabinet on Tuesday allotted 41.49 hectare land for Chutka Nuclear Power Plant in Mandla district. Land in tribal dominated village Chutka in Narayangunj tehsil has been allotted to Nuclear Power Corporation of India. Though the project was planned in 2009, it could not take-off under UPA regime. Renewed …
The state government approved the rules for the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013, which is regarded as a major shot in the arm to several development projects that were stalled in the name of land acquisition. As per the rules, the …
SHINENGENE, Zambia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The women sat quietly in a village church in northwest Zambia, the sun slanting down on their colorful Sunday outfits as they told how life had changed since their chief sold a tract of land to a foreign firm for a new copper mine, …
More than 3,000 residents of Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, remained evacuated Sunday after floodwaters from unprecedented rainfall last week inundated vast stretches of residential areas and damaged critical infrastructure, including power, communication and drinking water supply systems. With a total of seven deaths confirmed, including three in neighboring Tochigi Prefecture, police …
