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 …
Hundreds of displaced families, farmers, unemployed youths and women organisations under the banner of Essar Land Losers and Displaced Welfare Society have warned to intensify their stir on February 22 if their 12 point charter of demands including compensation, job opportunity and rehabilitation package are not met. Sources said although …
Torrential rains and landslides have left at least 77 people dead and about 12,000 displaced in Burundi, the Burundi Red Cross said on Tuesday. Heavy rains on Sunday caused flooding in northern areas of the country, outside the capital, Bujumbura. Some 1,000 houses were destroyed and 84 people injured, said …
Government has sent out 146 notices to leading iron and steel makers which were allegedly involved into illegal mining. Minerals worth about Rs 60,000 crore were illegally mined in Odisha during 2008-2011, Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry said in its report tabled in Parliament today. The first part of …
Up in arms against land acquisition, farmers from nearly 27 villages, mostly tribal, of Manavar Tehsil of Dhar district on Thursday protested against the acquisition of their land for the proposed cement plant and raised issue related to legality of the project. Tribal alleged that even after submitting hundreds of …
Government has sent out 146 notices to leading iron and steel makers which were allegedly involved into illegal mining Shah Commission says Rs 60K cr lost to illegal mining in Odisha Minerals worth about Rs 60,000 crore were illegally mined in Odisha during 2008-2011, Justice MB Shah Commission of Inquiry …
The rehabilitation component of the Navi Mumbai Airport project has hit a roadblock as a major portion of the 57 hectares of land, meant to relocate project affected people (PAP), has been classified as no-development land, following a change in coastal area protection norms in 2011. The Navi Mumbai Airport …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued directions to authorities that no new industry be set up in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district without requisite consent and clearances. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar sought responses of the Centre and the …
The National Green Tribunal today issued directions to authorities that no new industry be set up in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district without requisite consent and clearances. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar sought responses of the Centre and the governments of …
Residents of 18 villages located within the limits of the Darawat Dam project are resisting relocation without settlement of their claims, pressing the Water and Power Development Authority to ask the Sindh government to pay Rs200 million compensation to the affectees. According to official sources and documents reviewed by Dawn …
Families displaced by the Shuklaphanta Wild Life Preserve Area have declared that they were going to resort to a 'do or die' protest, as they have failed to get any compensation even after 12 years of their displacement. Accordingly, they will organize street protest, vehicular strike, sit-in and gherao, according …
The Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project is more meaningful in terms of environment as well as social concerns, JICA Sri Lanka Chief Representative Harumi Ao said at a seminar on Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project. The Institution of Engineers focused their attention on the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project (UKHP) …
Farmers of Gorakhpur, Badopal and Kajalheri villages, who were banking on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit for some announcement on rehabilitation package for the people displaced by the nuclear power plant, were disappointed on Monday as he only repeated the compensation package already announced by the Haryana government. While they …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pandit Hari Shankar Samadhiya Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 13/01/2014 regarding encroachment in the river front as well as river bed of river Morar in Gwalior.
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's refinery. "It is unfortunate that the UPA government is doing politics at the cost of development. We condemn the Centre for rejection of …
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 …
