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 …
The draft discussion paper offers available information on the differential links between climate change and the health of women and men through the perspectives of direct and indirect health consequences, and the possible interaction of biological and social risk factors in determining these impacts. The paper aims to provide a …
Vegetated coastal ecosystems provide goods and services to billions of people. In the aftermath of a series of recent natural disasters, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis, coastal vegetation has been widely promoted for the purpose of reducing the impact of large storm surges and tsunami. …
On december 28¤ people from 25 villages of Supaul district in north Bihar forced construction workers making a bundh on the Kosi river to abandon work. The temporary bundh will divert the river to allow the construction of a bridge. People are agitated because the project will impede the river’s …
The Union environment ministry has put a damper on Kerala government’s hydroelectric project in Thrissur district. On January 4, the ministry issued a showcause notice to the state electricity board for revoking clearance to the 163 MW Athirapally hydel project on Chalakudy river. The notice pointed out that the construction …
The Sardar Sarovar Dam reached a height of 121.92 m in 2006 and at this height the dam has enough water to generate most of the promised benefits - irrigation, drinking water, and electricity. However, currently only 30% of the targeted villages receive regular water supplies, less than 20% of …
Arindam Sinha Jamshedpur: Tata Steel wants to begin work on the proposed 12-mtpa greenfield project near Tontaposhi in the Seraikela-Kharswan district, 35 km from here, once the newly elected state government puts in place a formal resettlement & rehabilitation (R&R;) policy. The Rs 50,000-crore project involves acquisition of around 10,000 …
Over 2,000 slum-dwellers marched to the district collector’s office at Bandra on December 10, the international human rights day. They were protesting the proposed expansion of the Mumbai international airport that is likely to displace about 85,000 families living in surrounding slums. The protestors handed over a charter of demands …
The Kosi flood disaster of 2008 in Bihar and also in Nepal highlights two key issues relating to flood control. The first is the failure of the structural approach to flood control on the Kosi and the second is institutional dysfunction with respect to trans-boundary flood management. This article discusses …
This article examines the movement against the construction of the Hirakud dam in Orissa. It is evident that the domestic resistance to the project was variously compromised by nationalist rhetoric, imperatives of state development and absence of transnational support. The Hirakud dam project has failed on all of its objectives
AJK Minister for Mangla Dam affairs, wild life and fisheries Chaudhry Muhammad Yousaf has said that the inauguration of under construction Mangla dam raising project will be exercised only after completion of entire project. Talking to various delegations of Mangla dam affectees who called on him at the PWD Rest …
This paper explores the policy need and legal case for including social safeguards in a post-2012 agreement on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). One serious charge laid against so called 'market-based' approaches to REDD is the potential for forest dwelling communities to be dispossessed from their land …
The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990 noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human migration. The report estimated that by 2050, 150 million people could be displaced by climate change-related phenomenon. More recent studies increase this estimate.
On November 6, 2009 the Madras High Court asked the Tamil Nadu forest department to submit a detailed map demarcating elephant corridors in the Niligiri mountains for conservation. The directions were given while ordering a ban on new constructions in the forest corridors used by about 1,000 elephants. Tribal communities …
LUCKNOW: Even as the state government has made it clear that it will give ownership titles to tribals and forest workers of the land tilled by them since long as per the Forest Rights Act 2006, forest officers reportedly gave an ultimatum to Dalits families of Kewal village to vacate …
MK VENU, KG Narendranath New Delhi: Steel minister Virbhadra Singh has advised the promoters of ArcelorMittal and Posco to offer annuities (long-term income stream) to the indigenous people who will need to be rehabilitated from the steel majors
Loss of livelihood and displacement has become a recurring feature for the people of Singrauli, on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, due to the construction of dams and power and mining projects over the last five decades. These communities are again in the process of being displaced …
