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 power ministry is framing guidelines for the implementation of local area development fund (LADF) to ensure state governments pass on the intended monetary benefits to people affected by hydel projects. The Centre's revenue from the sale of 1% free power to discoms goes to the LADF. (The government doesn't …
SUPAUL: Destruction caused by breach in Kosi embankment at Kusaha on August 18, 2008, is still an issue in 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Supaul, which was the worst hit. Candidates are promising speedy implementation of the World Bank-aided reconstruction scheme including houses to the families displaced in the floods …
Both mainstream and fringe political outfits who contested in the recently held general and Assembly elections showed any seriousness in implementation of historic acts such as Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA), Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 and protection of Land Rights in tribal areas, said Campaign for …
Extended Great Himalayan National Park The Action Committee of villagers and the Himachal Niti Abhiyan, an NGO, are spearheading an agitation against their proposed inclusion in the Extended Great Himalayan National Park. "The Kardar of Rishi Brahma, presiding deity of local devatas of Tirthan and Sainj valleys, has told the …
Rajkot: Forest department has issued eviction notices to traditional saltpan workers in Little Rann of Kutch, asking them to vacate the wild ass sanctuary in the next seven days. Alleging that this will affect the voting by saltpan workers spread over the four districts of Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch, …
While the rest of Kerala went to polling booths on Thursday to become part of world’s largest democratic process, over 340 electorates from the particularly vulnerable tribal group of Kadar in Vazhachal hamlet inside Athirappilly forests have boycotted the election, mainly seeking clarity on the move to revive a controversial …
Members of Pong Dam Oustees Multipurpose Cooperative Samiti staged a token protest dharna on the premises of the Deputy Commissioner (Relief and Rehabilitation) office at Raja Ka Talab near here yesterday. Samiti president Ram Kumar Sharma said the dharna had been held to protest against the apathy and failure of …
Pollution in Yamuna or Ganga do not figure in the manifestos of the capital’s three major political parties nor does any focused plan on addressing the crisis of rivers. Despite having its roots in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party doesn’t talk about its plans for the extremely polluted Yamuna. With little …
Displaced from their homes, denied the promised plot of land in lieu, having survived a major fire – which many of them believe was deliberate – and the onslaught of bulldozers, the residents of the resettlement colony in Bawana area in North-West Delhi are angry that no politician has come …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Jahangeer Ali Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/04/2014 regarding cutting of trees in the cutting of trees in the Reserved Forest area, District Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh and also the relocation and rehabilitation of villagers …
This paper represents an input to sensitize Diaspora around issues of climate change and development. Diaspora communities can instigate policy change both in their old and new homelands. Especially in the fight against climate change, they can play a bridge function so that European and African countries play together their …
Elections come and go. But the situation of the flood affected people who have lost their land and properties to the yearly floods of the state remain unchanged. As per a latest estimate by the Water Resource Department of the state, a total of 4.25 lakh people have been living …
The Centre for Dalit Studies (CDS) released an eight-page ‘Dalit and Adivasi Agenda’, a manifesto containing demands from people across 22 different areas, to be circulated among all political parties fielding candidates in the coming elections.
A leaked report of the United Nations panel has predicted severe impacts of global warming on food-grain production, fresh-water resources and human settlements across the globe with Asia facing the brunt of it. The document, second in series of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report which …
A new UN report suggests that climate change will displace hundreds of millions of people by the end of this century, increasing the risk of violent conflict and wiping trillions of dollars off the global economy. The second of three publications by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due …
The following draft of certain rules which the State Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 109 of The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (30 of 2013) is hereby published, as required by section 112 of …
ALLAHABAD: Tension mounted at Salaiya Kalan village of Meja Tehsil here on Thursday noon when agitated villagers came face to face with the district administration and started throwing stones on the police while opposing the work for constructing ash dyke by the authorities of Meja Urja Nigam Private Limited (MUNPL). …
Thirty-five families have been displaced by a landslide at Malladehi VDC in the district. Around a hundred families of villages like Danapur, Lamuni and Pelkhet have seen their lands eroded so far. According to reports, the perennial landslip started around 40 years ago. “I moved my house three times just …
The lion expert committee formed by the Supreme Court is likely to send a team to Kuno-Palpur in Madhya Pradesh to assess the sanctuary's preparedness for receiving lions from Gir, before taking a final decision on translocation of the big cats. Incidentally, a larger bench of the apex court has …
