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 …
Relocation from protected areas is among the hotly debated issues in Indian wildlife conservation. Though the number of people displaced from inviolate areas for wildlife is less compared to the displacement caused by other development projects, the fate of those ousted from protected areas is often a cause for friction …
A proactive minister puts Paryavaran Bhavan in focus. The development dauphins are aflutter.When did you last hear of an Indian cabinet minister being compared to Muhammad Ali? Well, that
LANJIGARH: Even as the Centre has dealt a body blow to the expansion project of the UK-based Vedanta in Kalahandi by rejecting the stage-II forest clearance from its proposed mining project at Niyamgiri, tribals fighting to save their habitat on Thursday announced that the campaign would continue. Kunti Majhi, the …
Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions. Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had …
14 mining leases were visited in five forest divisions (Satna, Balaghat, Bhandara, Kolhapur and Vadodara) spread across three states namely Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The study included various minerals like Limestone, Bauxite, Ochre, Manganese, Fluorspar and Kyanite. (Out of 14 mining leases 3 were for underground mining and 11 …
Its indictment of the Odisha Government apart, the NC Saxena Committee, which authored the report on investigation into the proposal submitted by Vedanta for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills, hasn
New warnings have been issued in Pakistan as floods spread in the southern province of Sindh. Rising waters there have forced many thousands of people to flee, adding to the millions already needing emergency assistance. After broaching some of its embankments, the Indus river is now as wide as 28km …
This expert panel report on Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Orissa submitted to MoEF on August 16, 2010 says that the company must not given permission for this project as it has illegally occupied forest land andwill also threaten survival of local tribes. <br>The proposed mining lease (PML) area, which …
PANJIM, AUG 14The World Bank has feared that rise of one metre sea level across the globe can spell doom for many inhabitants and the impact would be felt by not less than 56 million people.According to the survey conducted by the World Bank, people from East Asia and Pacific …
Giant hydroelectric dams being built or planned n numerous countries, including India, for providing "green electricity," have a devastating impact on tribal people.Giant industrial dams are enormously destructive to tribal peoples and the environment, threatening the intimate connection of the tribals to the land and also heir vital food supplies, …
Maoist violence is the consequence of increased atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (especially in the central tribal belt) and widespread tribal unrest due to commercialisation of forest resources. Ignoring such analysis and acting primarily on reports by the Intelligence Bureau, which is not equipped to study the multiple …
A discussion of the resistance of the local tribal population against the construction of the Polavaram dam on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, the main feature of which is the involvement of various people
This report is the outcome of a research project by the Centre for Social Development (CSD) for the Department of Land Resources (DoLR). The National Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) policy, issued in 2007, recognizes the need to carry out Social Impact Assessment (SIA) as part of the resettlement planning and …
This paper explores reforms in environmental and resettlement policies in India and the influence of domestic and external actors on the reform process. It also analyses the ways in which environment and resettlement policies have been implemented in a number of hydropower projects. At project level the analysis focuses on …
The report highlights the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas, the report exposes the untold cost of obtaining
