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 …
It was launched in 2006 to ensure livelihood security for the rural poor. Five years hence, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGS) has more aces up its sleeve: checking distress migration and being the world
More than a thousand villagers from Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Raigarh district have expressed their opposition to a mine proposed by Vedanta Resources, a giant multinational. Vedanta, if granted clearance, hopes to mine four million tonnes of coal a year to fuel the expansion of its 810-MW captive power plant on the …
Based on evidence collected in four exemplar countries – Kenya, Bangladesh, Ghana and Vietnam – the overall aim of the study is to investigate the capacity of national legal frameworks to protect and mediate the rights of people vulnerable to environmental displacement induced by climate change.
BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took a strong note of the land acquisition policy of the State Government relating to Vedanta and directed that steps be taken to ensure that all the affected persons are rehabilitated. Addressing mediapersons here after the two-day camp sitting here on Wednesday, chairperson …
Taking cue from State Forest officials, residents in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh have also slammed the decision of the Gujarat Government to disallow the translocation of Asiatic lions to the Palpur-Kuno sanctuary. The residents have described the Gujarat Government's move as anti-tourism, and one that will hamper employment prospects …
TALCHER: Coal supply to NTPC-owned Talcher Super Thermal Power plant (TSTPP) from Lingaraj coal mine came to a halt today following agitation by villagers. Hundreds of Balugana villagers led by local sarpanch Rangadhar Nahak stopped all activities, including transport, in the mine. They also laid siege to the offices of …
Jan 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) today reported that 362,873 people from 96,663 families have been affected by floods in the Batticaloa District of Eastern Province. The DMC in its latest figures released Tuesday said 1,813 people from 465 families are sheltered in 7 camps. DMC statistics …
Recent experience shows protests by stronger communities to acquisitions succeed, whereas those by vulnerable communities who are more badly placed do not. Acquisition of land is often not made for bona fide purposes but initiated at the instance of industrialists, businessmen and builders who persuade governments to acquire land for …
This study provides an overview of the national-level controversy surrounding SEZs, before turning to a detailed account of the acquisition process and impacts of one SEZ in Polepally, Andhra Pradesh. Based on an extensive field survey, this case study reveals how evictions were not based on informed consent, but forced; …
THE Mizoram and Tripura administrations have served notices to families occupying land along the India-Bangladesh border. The land has to be vacated for fencing the border. Nearly 3,900 families along nine border sub-divisions in Tripura have been left homeless as state government failed to rehabilitate and compensate them. The remaining …
Subhash Narayan The Union Cabinet is all set to bring clarity and finalise procedures for forestry clearance of projects that involve large-scale displacement of tribal population. Lack of well-defined procedures for forestry clearances under the new Forest Rights Act (FRA) has resulted in project files flying between the environment and …
Imphal, Dec 27: Manipur faced extreme hardship in the year 2010 and people still continue to fight to ward off the hard days as they prepare to welcome the New Year. Employees stir, blockade on national highway, non availability of essential items, holding of Autonomous District Council election, death of …
The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya
Neil MacFarquhar Stunned villagers are finding that governments have been leasing land, often for decades. The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya's leader, Col. Muammar …
NEIL MACFARQUHAR SOUMOUNI (MALI) A World Bank study tallied farmland deals covering at least 110 million acres announced during the first 11 months of 2009 alone. The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-tomouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation …
Ongole, Dec. 22: Chirala Congress MLA Amanchi Krishnamohan here on Wednesday demanded the cancellation of the ultra mega power pro-ject at Nayunipalli in Vetapalem mandal of the distr-ict. Referring to the notification to acquire lands, he demanded its revocation as 50,000 persons would be displaced due to the project. He …
