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 …
Bhubaneswar: Though a month has elapsed since the Centre accorded conditional clearance to the Posco project, the Odisha government finds it tough to submit its assurance to the ministry of environment and forest on proper implementation of the Forest Rights Act, 2006. While giving conditional clearance to the Rs 52,000 …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has withdrawn its latest guidelines for creating inviolate space for wildlife. The guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat (CWH), issued on February 7, violated the Forest Rights Act, 2006, and threatened the interests of the forest dwellers (see: ‘Misguided rules’). The ministry also asked …
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is struggling to assure the Union environment ministry in writing that diversion of forest land for the Posco steel project will not infringe on the Forest Rights Act. Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cleared the project on January 31 and the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa …
Top forest officials and members of the National Forest Rights Act Committee are on a collision course after the panel submitted its report to the government and stated that the Act was not implemented in its true spirit. A war of words ensued after the panel, formed by the environment …
A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challenge for developing countries confronts the force of economic globalization, which seeks cropland that is shrinking in availability and triggers deforestation. Four mechanisms—the displacement, rebound, cascade, and …
Projects undertaken without the knowledge of their likely social impacts tend to produce unintended hardships for the local population. In order to preempt such failures, planning agencies, especially international aid agencies, insist on a prior assessment of possible harmful consequences of development interventions, so that corrective actions could be taken …
A National seminar on the FRA was organised by the Council for Social Development on 26–27 April, 2010. Most of the participants reported that all of the key features of this legislation have been undermined by a combination of apathy and sabotage during the process of implementation. In the current …
This is the Presentation delivered by Adiya Ghosh of Centre for Science and Environment, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation provides an introduction to liability and the Loss and Damage concept. It also …
This is the Presentation delivered by Hafijul Islam Khan, Bangladesh Environmental Law Association, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation deals with the issue on compensation of climate vulnerable poor people. It presents the …
Ask Chennai's fisherfolk and they will tell you that the road to hell is built on stilts. Various Central and state government agencies plan to construct three controversial expressways on stilts in the coastal city. These roads will displace more than 1 lakh people — mostly urban poor — and …
The Bombay High Court has given Lavasa Corporation Ltd six weeks' time to submit documents demanded by the Union ministry of environment and forests. Lavasa has time till March 10 to pacify the ministry, which had ordered the corporation to stop work on November 25 last year saying the township …
Dhanbad, Feb. 10: The high-powered committee of the Union coal ministry that is monitoring rehabilitation of the Jharia-fire affected will hold a meeting in New Delhi on February 15 to discuss a proposal for offering bigger flats to the beneficiaries. Under the ongoing rehabilitation programme, the victims have been shifted …
Mizoram-Tripura border Mamit district administration officials were conducting re-verification of the 28 Bru families who returned on their own during January from North Tripura relief camps and were not enrolled in the Mizoram
The United Nations said Tuesday that the recent wave of flooding in Sri Lanka had hit harder on the people who were still trying to recover from the last month's flooding. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sri Lank has reported that the magnitude and impact …
Dumka, Feb. 9: Administrative officials of Deoghar had their hands full today controlling a mob of around a thousand people opposing construction work of the spillway of Punasi dam. The mob, which was opposing BJP MP from Godda Nishikant Dubey
The day chief minister Sheila Dikshit completed 12 years of uninterrupted governance of Delhi, she also had to contend with a piece of news that was not really music to her ears. On Monday, a report on eviction of slum-dwellers and those residing on project sites during the Games revealed …
Troubles are far from over for global steel giant Posco to set up its Rs 54,000 crore steel plant in Jagatsinghpur in Orissa with tribals in the area divided over allowing the Korean company to enter. Although Orissa
Bangladesh will face mounting challenge of resettling and rehabilitating the people displaced by climate change, says an Asian Development Bank study. The country is already at high risk of catastrophic environmental hazards and floods from sea surges, river flow, rainfall and coastal and riverbank erosion that are likely to force …
