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 …
An Odisha minister today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta Resources' refinery. "It is unfortunate that the UPA government is doing politics at the cost of development. We condemn the Centre for rejection …
World Food Programme (WFP) has supplied relief and food assistance to approximately 972,000 returnees and displaced persons in six districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and four agencies of FATA region. Talking to APP Communication Officer of WFP, Amjad Jamal on Sunday said that WFP has established four distribution points …
This guide attempts to summarize the strongest social and environmental standards related to dam building. It discusses options for civil society to use standards in order to advocate for stronger practices to be implemented by government ministries, dam financiers, and dam builders. The guide takes the position that the most …
This guide attempts to summarize the strongest social and environmental standards related to dam building. It discusses options for civil society to use standards in order to advocate for stronger practices to be implemented by government ministries, dam financiers, and dam builders. The guide takes the position that the most …
Over 18,000 people in western Indonesia have had to leave their homes after two rivers burst their banks and flooded thousands of houses, an official said today. More than 4,500 houses and 500 shops in the coastal town of Tebing Tinggi on Sumatra island have been inundated since Saturday, when …
These rules may be called the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent) Rules, 2014. They extend to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. They shall come into force on the date of their final …
Moily to write to CMs of six states to examine recommendations of Kasturirangan panel report In one of his first acts as environment minister, Veerappa Moily is revisiting the Kasturirangan working groups’s report on the Western Ghats, which provided the blue print for conserving the bio-diversity rich region. On Monday, …
Survey for construction of Mannuthy-Amala Bypass begins The protest against land acquisition for Mannuthy-Amala Bypass has gained momentum with the beginning of the survey for construction work here. The survey of the road, to be constructed with the help of the World Bank, has been started recently. The survey is …
The number of evacuee rose to 3, 929 people on Monday from 810 people last week as widespread flooding has submerged several areas in Purworejo district of Central Java since Thursday, official said here. Local authorities warned the people to brace for possible floods and landslides as heavy rains are …
Gazette Notification for Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 - Act shall come into force from 1st January, 2014. See also Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/right-fair-compensation-and-transparency-land-acquisition-rehabilitation-and-0
22,000 Hectares To Get Drowned Mumbai: A dozen dams planned to provide water in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will affect at least a lakh tribal people and submerge more than 22,000 hectares of land. Nearly 7,000 hectares of forests, lakhs of trees and more than 750 hectares of the …
Draft report: Multiple Dams in tribal belt of Western Ghats for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Unjustified projects, when better options exist. About 12 dams are planned or are under construction to satisfy the increasing thirst of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). All of these dams fall in eco-sensitive region of …
This paper first looks at why, how, where and when does migration become an effective adaptation strategy. Then it gives a snapshot of the changing migration patterns in Bangladesh. It examines how policies evolve to addresses the issue of climate change and migration in the broader contexts of development and …
Experts Feel That Govt Needs A Policy Framework To Curb Rampant Illegal Sand Mining & Chart Regulated Mining Process The row over mineral sand mining between the public, private sector industries and the environmental groups illustrates the lack of a proper state-level policy on sand mining and experts say that …
A dedicated institutional mechanism to address the adverse impacts of climate change such as extreme weather events like Typhoon Haiyan and Cyclone Phailin may well be within reach at the end of the ongoing global talks at Warsaw. After a weekend of intense negotiations, government representatives have prepared a draft …
All decks for the Navi Mumbai airport are now clear with the Maharashtra government offering a slew of benefits to those affected by the project and were opposed to their land being acquired as they were not happy with the rehabilitation package. The deal includes additional floor space index on …
People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) has demanded the Reliance Power Limited (RPL) for immediate payment of compensation money to the project affected people of 700 MW Tato-II hydel project in West Siang district of the state. Extending constant support to the genuine demands of Project Affected Peoples’ Action Committee, Tato, …
One development plan that seems to be moving backwards in poll-bound Mizoram is hydro power. “We have said many times we are going to dam all our rivers,” Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla had said when this journalist asked AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro in September how the party intends to …
Kochi: The Western Ghats people’s forum will stage an agitation in Thiruvananthapuram in the first week of December to press its demand that residential areas, farm lands and estates should be excluded from the purview of the Madhav Gadgil and Kasturirangan reports. The newly-reconstituted forum, which met in Kochi on …
The Draft Rules for the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, are now being put in the public domain. These rules may be called the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Rules 2013. See also: The …
