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 …
This collection of papers was presented at a conference on linkages between climate change, water, conflict and migration, held in September 2011 at The Hague, in the Netherlands, where the discussion focused on: capacity building and resilience in climate hotspots; conflict prevention; and a legal framework to protect environmental migrants. …
The bazaar or intermediate classes have remained outside the predominant research imagination on urban change. Delhi's wholesale and retail traders, the primary subjects of this paper, are a subset of this bazaar world. This paper uses a case study of the Supreme court ordered sealing drives of 2006-07 to investigate …
In order to give “inviolate space” to tigers for their undisturbed breeding, the Supreme Court on Tuesday banned all forms of tourism in national tiger reserves with immediate effect, warning states it would take strict action, including imposing fines, if this order was not implemented in letter and spirit. A …
Even as the Maharasthra State budget has provided for an airport in Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s hometown of Karad in Satara district, more than 4,000 farmers from the region are opposing it. While land acquisition for the project is yet to begin, farmers have warned of an agitation on …
Ironically, flooding is vital for Kaziranga’s ecology. But as governments dither on an integrated river management plan, a sediment-laden Brahmaputra is killing too many too often. Jay Mazoomdaar and Ratnadip Choudhury report on a recurring tragedy ITS GAZE transfixed on the busy road, the hog deer was shivering. Shoulder-deep in …
This article is based on a visit to Mundra taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat in January 2011 to understand first hand the plunder of common property resources. It focuses on the Mundra Port and special economic zone developed by the Adani Group and a thermal power plant of OPG Power …
Ahmedabad: Pollution control vessel, a dedicated oil spill recovery vessel, second of its class in Asia-Pacific region, will be commissioned by Indian Coast Guard in Surat on July 20. The 94-metre-long vessel with displacement of 3,300 tonnes is a highly specialized ship fitted with top-of-shelf technologically advance pollution response equipment …
Khandwa: Today, in the presence of the thousands of oustees, the Narmada Jal Satyagraha of the Omkareshwar dam oustees, commenced in Village Ghogalgaon. At the commencement of the satyagraha, thousands of oustees expressed their determination that they would give up their lives if need be, but that they would not …
The focus of the new version of the Land Acquisition Bill, to be tabled in Parliament in the monsoon session next month, would be on compensation and transparency in acquisition. Hence, the rural development ministry has proposed a new name, the Right to Fair Compensation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Transparency in …
The state energy department has urged Power Finance Corporation (PFC) to obtain no objection certificate from the Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) for setting up the coastal Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP) at Bijayapatna under Chandbali tehsil in Bhadrak district. The site has been zeroed in for the second …
Steamrolling the concerns raised by mining firms, the mines ministry has told a Parliamentary committee that people displaced from their homes in mining zones have to be allotted shares of the mineral exploration companies. The ministry’s main argument is that the move would promote inclusive growth and make the locals …
ANGUL: In a bid to curb frequent strikes in Talcher coalfields, the State Government on Sunday invoked Orissa Essential Service (Maintenance) Act (OESMA) in the coalfield area for six months. Lawlessness has been one of the factors that hampered production in major Talcher coalfields of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL). However, …
PARADIP: Hundreds of fishermen staged a demonstration in front of the oil refinery project of IOCL on Monday demanding removal of encroachments over the Atharbanki Haldiapani river. Nearly 5,000 fishermen families from Gandikipur, Gopiakuda, Kaliapata, Taladanda, Duadia, Kabalpur, Hansina, Bariha, Fatehpur, Bishali, Paradipgada and Mangarajpur depend on the river, a …
The State Government will plant more than 680 crore saplings on private lands in the next eight years, Forest Minister K.T. Pachamal has said. The government had come up with the initiative to increase the green cover as the State currently had a green cover of 21.76 per cent, he …
As many as 20 million people of the country would be displaced if sea level rises to 1.5 metres owing to climate change. This was revealed on Monday in a report titled ‘Into unknown territory: the limits to adaptation and reality of loss and damage from climate impacts’ presented by …
The state government has decided that Posco India will have to pay the same price for rehabilitation colony land as it has paid for the project area, following a complaint raised by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). “Steps will be taken to request Posco India to pay equivalent compensation …
ANGUL: The affected villagers of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) have threatened economic blockade protesting delay in convening of the Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) meeting. The agitators hailing from 40 affected villages of JSPL assembled at the collectorate on Wednesday. They staged a demonstration and burnt …
A significant rise in sea levels due to global warming could result in the loss of species and habitats in the coastal areas of more than a thousand islands in South-East Asia and the Pacific region, leading to the potential displacement of many millions of people, according to a study. …
Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan called on Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at Prime Minister’s House Thursday and appreciated him for his keen interest in taking measures to solve energy crisis, reduction in oil prices, issue of missing persons and resumption of NATO supply …
United Nations The UN is monitoring the floods situation in India and Bangladesh and is ready to provide assistance to the countries where more than a million people have been displaced due to heavy monsoon rains. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that nearly 30 people …
