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 principles of homeopathy were first expounded by Samuel Hahnemann in the last decade of the 18th century. This German physician stated that certain substances produce symptoms of illness when administered in large doses to a healthy person. However, when administered to the sick, in diluted potions, the same substance …
Nigeria's army has been accused of killing at least 30 people and setting ablaze many houses while investigating an oil dispute between two communities. The communities living in the neighbouring towns of Odioma and Obioku in southern Niger Delta claim ownership of a patch of swampland, Owukubu, where oil giant …
Nigeria's Adamawa state recently witnessed a weeklong fierce battle between nomadic herdsmen and farmers. In the deadliest of these clashes, ethnic Fulani herdsmen attacked the farming village of Bali, killing 28 people. At least 30 people were killed in all. "Farmers in the area complain that cattle graze on their …
A fierce clash over water has displaced thousands of people and killed at least 15 in the Mai Mahiu region, about 60 kilometers northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi. The tussle over water rights between the Maasai and Kikuyu tribes, which dates back to the 1960s, took a violent turn on …
This paper is based on the empirical findings from the Supervision Mission of a project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The mission visited the two project districts from 3 May to 17 May 2004 and conducted assessment on the on-going programmes in Karbi Anglong District of …
The International Union for the Conversation of Nature (IUCN) is the lead organization in the selection, establishment and management of protected areas. In order to accomplish its advisory management function, IUCN maintains a worldwide list of protected areas. Each protected area on the list is placed into one of 6 …
If we are doomed to witness water wars in the coming years, as many experts predict, they would perhaps begin thus. Four farmers were killed and about 30 were injured in police firing in Rawla and Ghadsana towns of Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district on October 27, 2004. They were protesting an …
saving the act: The prime minister's office (PMO) has issued a directive that Union cabinet proposals having a bearing on decentralisation will have to be cleared by the newly-formed ministry of panchayati raj affairs, along with other ministries concerned. This is to ensure that ministries do not make parallel implementation …
Pakistan A Pakistani journalist, Sarwar Mujahid, has been detained for three months following his coverage of a land dispute between paramilitary forces and military farm tenants in Punjab province's Okara district. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (hrcp) has expressed deep concern over the July 31 arrest of Mujahid, a …
five months after the murder of two social activists, Maheshkant and Sarita, in Gaya district of Bihar due to a village conflict, a similar danger threatens another social worker. Chandrabhushan Singh, mukhiya (head) of the Rauniya village panchayat in Khijarsarai block, is facing the consequences of renovating a tank in …
a recent midnight attack on Maharashtra's Rajapur barrage by farmers belonging to the neighbouring state of Karnataka has fuelled fears that future wars of the world will be fought over water. On March 26, around 400 residents of Soundatti and Naslapur villages, in Karnataka's Belgaum district, crossed over to Maharashtra …
A CONCEPT that did not click in the hills of the Northeast has now been prescribed for the plains of the region. On December 1, the Union government inked a purportedly historic tripartite pact with the Bodo Liberation Tigers and the Assam government to create an autonomous, self-governing Bodoland Territorial …
Green peace In environmental cooperation may lie the promise of a peaceful world, proposes this book. It makes a powerful case for ecological security, a concept that has already gained coinage in the Western world. The need, the book argues, is to shed the mindset of perceiving a degrading environment …
hc cracks whip: Reprimanding the state-level committee over its inability to find zones for stone-crushers, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of all such units. The owners of the state's stone-crushing units may, however, approach the court for a vacation or modification of the order. Announcing that …
the simmering tension between Nagaland and the Union government over the state's mineral wealth has reached boiling point. On September 3, Nagaland chief minister (cm) Neiphiu Rio publicly demanded that the centre respect the constitution in letter and in spirit. Addressing a press conference in Kohima, the cm expressed concern …
The unique assemblages of flora and fauna in the Himalayan region make it one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the Indian subcontinent. Seventy-five protected areas (PAs) encompassing 9.48% of the region have been created to conserve this biodiversity and the fragile Himalayan landscape. However, this has engendered conflicts …
India has the largest tribal population in the world. Tribals number 8.6 per cent of its total population. They are also among the country's most marginalised. Why has India's political democracy not given its tribals their due? What is in India's political system that prevents the tribal voice from being …
Kunwar Singh Jonko, 34, belongs to the Ho people, a Scheduled Tribe. His village Katamba is deep inside the forest, 60-odd km west of Chaibasa, the headquarters of East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. In the Forest Department (FD) register, his house, his fields and the entire Katamba village is an …
