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 …
Over 300, 000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced due to the flash floods brought on by the weakened tropical storm system over the northeastern region of the country. Pradeep Kodippily, assistant director of the National Disaster Management Center (NDMC) told media that 302,835 people have been displaced …
ANIL Agarwal's Vedanta Aluminium (VAL) fears fresh trouble at its proposed bauxite mining site in Orissa. In a letter to the police superintendents of Rayagada and Kalahandi last week, Vedanta's COO-Lanjigarh, Mukesh Kumar said: "We are seeing increased movement of foreigners from various countries in the area. We also came …
This report draws attention in countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. While producing the smallest amount of greenhouse gases, Africa is one of the continents most vulnerable to climate change, and with the greatest lack of adaptive capacity. Burundi and Somalia, which are the focus in the report, …
In 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC authoritatively established that human-induced climate change is accelerating and already has severe impacts on the environment and human lives. Although there is not a mono-causal relation between climate change, disasters, displacement and migration, the existence of a clear link between the …
CLIMATE change and environmental degradation will force one billion people to migrate in the next 40 years to southeast Asia, central America and parts of west Africa, the world's leading migration agency has said. A report by the International Organisation for Migration identified Afghanistan and Bangladesh among other places as …
About 15 million (1.5 crore) people in Bangladesh alone could be on the move by 2050 because of climate change, causing the worst migration in human history.
When a dam developer claims that 97% of the people it surveyed are satisfied with their compensation, take it with a large grain of salt. Back in November 2008, International Rivers hired a consultant to visit the site of the Xiaoxi Dam on the Zishui River in China. Our researcher …
This latest UN report reveals alarming statistics on how indigenous peoples are faring in areas like health, education, poverty, environment and human rights. Shows that they suffer disproportionately compared to non-indigenous and face systematic discrimination and exclusion. This report on the state of the world's indigenous peoples reveals alarming statistics …
This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policymaking and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to …
Development in Asia faces a crucial issue: the right of indigenous peoples to build a better life while protecting their ancestral lands and cultural identity. An intimate relationship with land expressed in communal ownership has shaped and sustained these cultures over time. But now, public and private enterprises encroach upon …
Contemporary India is witnessing a wide number of micro-level social movements struggling against industrialisation, big dams and other similar development projects. This paper looks at the tribal movement against the mining industry in Kucheipadar village of Rayagad district in Orissa. The field survey was carried out in this area in …
Land is the heart of infrastructure development. The first India Infrastructure Report (IIR), which was brought out in 2001, identified the process of land acquisition as the most important structural constraint to the development of infrastructure. This IIR 2009 to examine various facets of
Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009: critical assessment & recommendations prepared by constituent members of SANGHARSH (since 2007), a platform of 150 people’s movements and mass organisations engaged in fighting displacement across India.
The Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009 : critical assessment & recommendations prepared by constituent members of SANGHARSH (since 2007), a platform of 150 people’s movements and mass organisations engaged in fighting displacement across India.
A study of the displacement and resettlement due to two dams, and a protest movement against a smelting plant in Thailand brings out strikingly similar issues with those seen recently in Orissa and West Bengal
State Minister for Environment and Forest Dr Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said about 20 million people might be displaced from coastal belts as a result of sea level rise following climate change. He urged all, including government and non-government organisations, to act unitedly to face the challenges of climate change …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today defended proposed mining at Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district saying that not a single tribal family would be displaced due to this project. In a written reply to a question from Hitesh Bagarti (BJP), Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty told the House there is …
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata November 17, 2009, 0:34 IST The West Bengal government has earmarked 30,000 acres for industrial projects (around 7,000 acres has been allocated, the rest is at different stages of acquisition), but even as it faces one of the most violent battles for land rights, figures …
