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 …
More than 27,000 people have been displaced in central China's Hunan Province following heavy rain this past week. Hunan flood control authority said that 1,826 houses were destroyed in storms in the northwestern and southeastern parts of the province. At least four large reservoirs opened gates to release water in …
ISTANBUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tuvalu's prime minister on Tuesday called for a U.N. resolution to create legal protection for people displaced by the impacts of climate change, saying there was currently no international framework to protect their rights. Speaking at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, where he made …
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) launched its annual publication on internal displacement, citing climate change and related natural hazards, such as drought, sea-level rise and desertification, as increasingly important factors causing internal displacement. The Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is published annually by the NRC's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre …
In its latest report, the USAID-founded body also warned of excess mortality in a nation hit by war since December 2013, anticipating extreme lack of food in parts of Unity state. About million people have been displaced by the conflict in the young nation, with close to 200,000 living in …
The issue of ongoing protest by villagers displaced by the construction of the Damodar Valley Corporation's (DVC) Maithon dam in Jharkhand was raised in the Rajya Sabha today. "In Baliapur area of Dhanbad district, adivasis and tribals are protesting for last 10 days. In fact, the third generation is protesting …
The Opposition in the Jharkhand Assembly on Wednesday demanded setting up of a commission to look into issues pertaining to land acquisition, particularly those protected under the Santhal Parganas Tenancy Act (SPT) and the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act (CNT). “Let the government announce a commission to resolve all land-related issues,” …
An underground natural gas pipeline rupture that caused the largest-ever methane leak in California has been permanently capped, paving the way for thousands of displaced Los Angeles residents to return home, state regulators said on Thursday. The leak, which began in October and accounted for a fourth of all daily …
The government has notified new draft rules to ensure the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition in the Union Territory. The draft of Puducherry Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Rules, 2015’ has been published, as required by a section of …
These rules may be called the Odisha Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Rules, 2016. They shall extend to the whole of the State of Odisha.
The national capital’s water woes may soon come to an end with the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday giving its nod to the 40 MW Renuka hydro-power project in Himachal Pradesh and refusing to quash the environmental clearance granted to it. The green panel also declined to stall the land …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Puran Chand & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh through its Secretary Environment to the Government of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 02/02/2016 regarding regarding the Renuka Dam project across river Giri. River Giri is a perennial river which flows …
GUWAHATI: All Assam Congress Committee (APCC) on Tuesday organized a volunteers' meet on Global Climate Change and its impact on Assam. What is unique about the meeting is that it is held in boats on the Brahmaputra river in the Baghbar area of Barpeta district in the middle of flood …
JAKARTA - As many as 1,505 people have taken shelters at higher grounds as floods hit Aceh Utara district of Indonesia's Aceh province, a government spokesman said in Jakarta Monday. Due to heavy downpours since Sunday morning, water has overflowed the banks of Pase and Keureten rivers and submerged many …
Chongoroi — Mrore than 10.000 people were made homeless in the communes of Bolonguera and Camuine, Chongoroi municipality, central Benguela province, by the heavy rains that hit the region, thus cutting the movement in the access roads. This was said to the press by the communal administrator of Bolonguera, Juliana …
Mozambique’s relief agency, the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) says about 140 families were left homeless following heavy rains that pounded the Montepuez district in the country’s northern province of Cabo Delgado at the weekend. INGC said heavy rains accompanied by strong winds destroyed 17 homes, while leaving some …
MONTEVIDEO – The number of people forced from their homes by flooding across four northwestern provinces has increased to 21,991 people, Uruguay’s National Emergency System, or Sinae, said on Wednesday. The agency said 10,054 people were evacuated in Artigas province, 6,677 in Paysandu, 57 in Rio Negro, and 5,203 in …
The cold wave that currently strikes Darfur is causing catarrhs and inflammations in the chest to many people living in the camps for the displaced, especially children and the elderly. A sheikh in Zamzam camp for the displaced near El Fasher, capital of North Darfur told Radio Dabanga that many …
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 …
