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 …
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that over 40 million people are currently displaced and have variable access to health care in the country in which they reside. Populations displaced by conflict are largely disenfranchised, and high prevalence of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has been documented. …
‘Nobody in the seven villages received relief and rehabilitation settlements’. Details of the rights of tribals living in the submergence area of the Polavaram Project, as enunciated by the Forest Rights Act, are not even documented, before which the tribals are being displaced, said a fact finding report by a …
SENDAI, Japan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people forced from their homes each year by disasters has quadrupled over the past four decades, and the risk of being displaced has doubled, said a Norwegian humanitarian group. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, …
When a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, Yumi Kanno did not hesitate. She grabbed her 2-year-old son and aging in-laws and fled to her parents' house two hours away. Four years later, Kanno and her extended family are still unable to …
Debate in Lok Sabha on Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015, 09/03/2015.
The voracious Brahmaputra has rendered homeless as many as 36,981 families by eroding their lands and houses across Assam in the past five years, the State Assembly was informed today. In his written reply to a query in the House, Assam Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Bhumidhar Barman said that …
The report forecasts an increased risk of global displacement caused by disasters, and calls for a stronger link between displacement and disaster risk reduction. It also applies the concept of risk to disaster-related displacement while quantifying human displacement risk around the world.
Want land back from JP company *Threaten jail bharo andolan on February 26 Thousands of tribals, including project-affected people, workers and farmers from Kinnaur district, today gave a clarion call to get back the land that has allegedly been acquired illegally by the JP company. Farmers, workers and leaders, cutting …
This controversial Land Acquisition Bill has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on 24 Feb, 2015 amidst opposition and protests. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015. The Bill amends the …
Hundreds of Dangaria Kandha tribal men and women joined a large group of anti-displacement activists of the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti atop the Niyamgiri hills in Odisha’s Kalahandi district on Sunday and burnt copies of the land acquisition Ordinance recently promulgated by the Narendra Modi Government. “Pro-corporate” The tribals and activists, …
Dams illustrate the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one-sixth of the world's electricity and irrigate one-seventh of our food crops. They have flooded land areas the size of California, displaced a population the size of Germany's, and turned freshwater into the ecosystem most threatened by species extinction. …
Rome — Heavy floods in southern Malawi have killed at least 79 people, forced more than 170,000 from their homes and cost about 160,000 people their livelihoods, a UN agency said on Wednesday. A state of emergency has been declared in 15 of Malawi's 28 districts, and 63,000 hectares of …
Madagascar's government appealed for international aid on Wednesday after a tropical storm earlier this month devastated large swathes of the Indian Ocean island, causing damage worth around $40 million. Sixty-eight people were killed and 130,000 displaced when the tropical storm Chedza hit Madagascar on Jan. 16, the National Bureau of …
Almost 63,531 hectares of farmland in Malawi have been submerged and about 120,000 farmers across the southern African nation have been affected by floods. The country has lost food production of more than 48,000 metric tons, Vice President Saulos Chilima said in a statement published on the Malawi government’s official …
Floods in Mulanje have displaced 12,582 farm families, destroying houses, washing away crops and livestock and some people have lost their lives. The flooding of major rivers like Thuchira, Likhubula, Lichenya, Ruo and Muloza had affected many households leaving them destitute as they have lost more household items like food, …
Following the activities of the Boko Haram sect in some parts of the North-East, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that over 18, 000 Nigerians are displaced in some neighbouring countries adding that both insurgents and natural disaster have displaced 981,416 persons across the country. This was disclosed …
MAPUTO, Mozambique — Heavy flooding in Mozambique has killed 10 people and displaced nearly 20,000 more, the government disaster management office said Wednesday. Seven people died trying to cross the Licungo river in the Zambezia province, with four people dying when their car was swept away, said Rita Almeida, the …
Over 200 households in some parts of Chikwawa district have been displaced by floods due to heavy rains on January 2, 2015. According to a report released by the Chikwawa District Commissioner's Office, areas affected by the floods are under Paramount Chief Lundu and include Group Village Headmen Mafale, Sekeni …
The National Democratic Alliance’s latest Ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act could turn out to be a unifying factor for the Opposition to take on the government. A day after the Union Cabinet approved the amendment to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and …
