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 …
Migration is a constant and dynamic phenomenon increasingly requiring diversified policy intervention in order to maximize its potential benefits and minimize related costs for both countries of origin and destination as well as migrants themselves. Better knowledge and enhanced capacities in different policy areas are essential to ensure the protection …
PEOPLE displaced by the Pong dam are still waiting to be rehabilitated, forty years after the dam was built. They were promised canal-irrigated land in Ganganagar district, but the Rajasthan government is now offering them semiarid land in Bikaner. The dam in Himachal Pradesh supplies water to Punjab, Haryana and …
Dhadgaon (Maharashtra): Calling for a review of resettlement sites for the people affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam and of the irrigation project itself, Medha Patkar, leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) said, there were as many as 40,000 families still in the submergence area, waiting to be resettled.
Agartala/Aizawl, Oct 21: Mizoram tribal refugees sheltered in Tripura for over 13 years on Thursday organized a protest rally to express their distress over the Mizoram Government
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to shift all the 700 families of Satabhaya village in Rajnagar block of Kendrapara district within the next three months because of sea erosion. All the families will be rehabilitated at Bagapatia near Gupti in the same district. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik reviewed …
Government of Andhra Pradesh have formulated a policy on slum-free cities in Andhra Pradesh by 2014 through comprehensive reconstruction of the existing slums in the State, both in terms of housing and infrastructure facilities, in addition to assigning property rights and tenement rights to the identified slum dwellers. It also …
KORAPUT: Villagers in the periphery of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Koraput are irked over the company's lackadaisical attitude in providing adequate health services. They have urged the Chief Minister to frame specific guidelines on services to be provided to the periphery villages. Established in 1969 after acquiring over 3,000 …
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: The Meena Gupta Committee is to submit its report on Monday to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on the Posco steel project, according to the sources in the Ministry. While the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti activists are hopeful that the committee would give an adverse …
Once self-reliant people have been reduced to coolies and their kids are dropping out of school, finds Sangeetha Neeraja The way industrial development is happening along the coast, traditional fishermen will be reduced to coolies in trawlers. Even that will come to an end in next 10 years as there …
Industrial tree plantations for wood, palm oil and rubber are generating an increasing number of confl icts between companies and local populations. Relying on a wide-ranging literature review, this article analyses the alleged impacts of such plantations, the protesters involved, and the modalities of the confl icts. It fi nds …
This is the fourth in a series of papers chronicling the negotiations over plans to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai’s vast informal settlement. It also describes current plans to redevelop land beside Mumbai’s international airport, where more than 85,000 households live on a 110-hectare (275 acres) site. In both these settlements, each …
It is important that companies take the time to properly understand the communities they work with including their particular context, concerns and aspirations. This Guide aims to assist help companies achieve those constructive relationships with Indigenous Peoples. The Guide highlights good practice principles, discusses the challenges in applying these principles …
THE Orissa government has moved the Supreme Court seeking stay on the forest clearance granted to a multipurpose project in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. It is being constructed by the Andhra government on the Godavari at Polavaram. Orissa fears the dam that is part of the project will submerge parts of …
Appropriating a percentage of earnings will scare away entrepreneurs and defeat the purpose of bringing tribals into the national mainstream. Even so, the basic principle of compensating people for giving up their land cannot be ignored R K Sharma Secretary General, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries If 26% of the …
Kunal Bose / September 28, 2010, 0:56 IST Democracy allows a hundred ideas on a given subject to bloom before a policy is finally made. That the draft mining bill will provoke miners, stand alone ones and those who dig earth to remove minerals for captive use, to react is …
One of the main consequences of climate change will be rising seas, which will cause tens to hundreds of millions of people to be flooded out of their homes in coastal areas and in many low-lying atoll nations, some of which will become untenable as states or entirely disappear. This …
K Rajani Kanth / Polavaram September 22, 2010, 0:27 IST The final instalment of our two-part report on the situation on the ground at Polavaram, site of the controversial Indira Sagar project. PART 1: BEFORE THE DELUGE, A SEA OF TRIBAL TEARS Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah has, of …
Define landowner's stake correctly, don't mess with profits Business Standard / New Delhi September 22, 2010, 0:07 IST The government appears to be moving towards finalising legislation to ensure that those displaced by mining projects get 26 per cent of the profit accruing from them. This is in response to …
