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 …
While there are some positive features in the Land Acquisition Bill – the inclusion of both acquisition and rehabilitation in the same legislation, and provision for the displaced to receive a share of the appreciation in value over time – the regressive features dominate and threaten to make acquisition by …
If the State holds on to the market logic and sees the challenge in land acquisition as a problem of individual will of the “affected families” whose consent has to be taken (even when it is of a high order, i e, 80%), then it can be expected that the …
The state government has not objected to providing land near the sea to fishermen who were 'rehabilitated' five km away from the sea because of the Tarapur Nuclear Power project. In a report submitted to the Bombay high court on Tuesday by the Joint Secretary (Rehabilitation) Sadhanand Jadhav, Department of …
The Maharashtra government today told the Bombay High Court that it has no objection in providing land near sea to those fishermen who were rehabilitated farther from the seashore after setting up the Tarapur Nuclear Power Plant in neighbouring Thane district. "As per a government resolution passed on February 4, …
The United Nations Agencies have estimated that 2.5 million people are in desperate need of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities in the flood hit areas. Talking to APP on Saturday, an official of Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humaira Mehboob said that food is needed for …
PUNE: In 1966, Babasaheb Pandurang Adhav quit his medical practice to become a full-time labour organizer. Newly jobless , he asked a woman he admired to marry him. Since that woman was Sheelatai, she not only said 'yes!' but went on to financially and emotionally support him for over half-a-century …
This new report focuses on how human population movements across the world could be affected by global environmental changes between now and 2060. This report considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. The scope of this report is international: it examines global migration trends, …
Extraction and transportation of mineral resources today presents an increasing social problem, leading to environmental damage and the violation of human rights. In addition to economic and social controversies as well as political problems (such as corruption amongst state and local authorities), it caused population displacement on a large scale. …
In August, western Odisha was shut down 13 times to protest the state government’s decision to build three barrages on the Mahanadi river. They are meant to dam surplus water downstream of the Hirakud reservoir to generate 320 MW power, and, as recently announced, to irrigate farms. Not a single …
The Indian cabinet Friday approved the draft of a law that seeks to attract investments in mining by simplifying rules and smoothening land acquisitions through higher compensation to people displaced, but industry executives said some of the proposals were negative. Inadequate compensation and the fear of loss of livelihood have …
This bill approved by the union cabinet provides for mining companies to keep aside 26 per cent of their net profits for a mineral development fund to be used for the development and rehabilitation of project affected people in tribal areas. This bill approved by the Union cabinet provides for …
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has appealed to the nation and international community to donate generously for the badly flood-affected people of Sindh and Balochistan. The Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, told media that a Cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister, in the light of …
There is no distinction made by the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) in their notification regarding different projects where the state governments have to take prior permission, the Central government informed the Bombay high court on Tuesday. “There is no distinction in the MoEF notification in regards to projects …
City and Industrial Development Corporation ( CIDCO) has sanctioned a Rs 217.57 crore rehabilitation package for the villagers who would be displaced/ affected due to the construction of Balganga reservoir in Pen taluka of Raigad district. Decision was taken in the recent board meeting, said CIDCO chairman Pramod Hindurao here …
The Greenpeace fact finding report states that Singrauli is the ninth highest in the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) amongst 88 highly polluted industrial blocks in the country. The index value of Singrauli (81.73) clearly indicates that the area is critically polluted owing to power plants established in the region. …
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) donated $1.8 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to support the agency’s efforts in building permanent one-room shelters for the displaced families of Orakzai Agency. Under the agreement, UNHCR will construct 1000 permanent one-room …
At a time when the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are known not to have the best of relations, the former has agreed to hand over tenements to the BMC to rehabilitate its Project Affected Persons (PAPs) at no cost. Earlier, the authority …
The overpowering stench of municipal waste hits one hard on entering Boragaon. Women and children from the nearby squatter’s colony squabble over the garbage unloaded by trucks from Guwahati, the sprawling business hub of northeastern India and a million-plus city of Assam. A sole adjutant stork, an endangered bird, meditates …
Matters reached a head earlier this year when the prime minister assured the power ministers’ conference the government would decide within a month about power projects which were ready in all respects except for environment clearance. At a meeting convened by the prime minister’s office, the Kayamkulam project in Kerala …
There is a need to safeguard every water body, every channel, drain and nullah, and every catchment area Even as I was writing this, my city, Delhi, was drowning. It had been raining since early morning and four hours of rainfall brought the city to a standstill. The Meteorological Department …
