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 …
Climate migrants and exiles pose a unique challenge that requires a special international strategy, which only the United States, with its well-established and transparent regimes for legal immigration, has the experience and capacity to develop. To begin with, the US could take the initiative in formulating domestic policy to start …
The government today admitted its failure in dealing with the losses suffered by tribals in land acquisition for various projects, but said one solution was that tribals must benefit from the projects for which they had been displaced. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the government needed to improve its laws …
As a result of the continuing heavy rains several areas in the Batticaloa District, in Eastern Sri Lanka have been severely flooded. The Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka said that most of the families at Kaththankudi, Ariyampathi, Wellawalai and Eravur have been displaced due the floods. All the …
THE government is exploring the option of creating a fund through contribution from steel companies, the annuity from which would help meet the livelihood requirement of those affected by projects. The government hopes that through this measure it would be able to acquire land more easily for steel projects while …
A twister that blew across the Bulathsinhala area in Kalutara last night damaged at least 103 houses. The Disaster Management Center said that 89 houses have been completely destroyed and others were partially damaged. Most of the houses have been damaged due to fallen trees, but no injuries were reported, …
Contending water uses, dams and displacement, equity-access-allocations, micro-level conflicts, water quality, trans-boundary conflicts, privatization, sand excavation, and mining, are the main themes of water conflict.
This report is an attempt to consolidate the concerted resistance of the people of the state of Karnataka to the existing development paradigm of the country which in the guise of rapid industrialization and export promotion has completely circumvented people from the process. While the frame of reference is the …
Climate change greatly increases the risk that the most basic rights of children in poor countries will not be met. These children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of global warming and yet least to blame. Save the Children
KHANDWA: Thousands of people displaced by the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dam projects in Madhya Pradesh took to the streets here on Wednesday protesting against
PARADIP: With the Central Government virtually breathing down its neck to expedite work on the much delayed Posco project, the State Government has asked the district administration to convene a meeting of the Rehabilitation and Periphery Development Advisory Committee next month. President of South Korea Lee Myung Bak, is said …
For centuries, Adam Abdi Ibrahim's ancestors herded cattle and goats across an unforgiving landscape in southern Somalia where few others were hearty enough to survive. This year, Ibrahim became the first in his clan to throw in the towel, abandoning his land and walking for a week to bring his …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government today decided to have an empaneled list of firms having expertise in the preparation of socio-economic feasibility report for resettlement and rehabilitation project affected people (PAP). THE Revenue Department will invite letter of consent from firms having experience of resettlement and rehabilitation of displaced families of at …
N. Rahul RAJOLI (Mahabubnagar dt.): Hundreds of poor families are literally on the road in this tiny village as they have pitched tents made of sarees after their houses collapsed following the floods ten days ago. A bumpy drive to Rajoli from Shantinagar on a gravel topped road over 10 …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo The company, according to industry sources, hopes that the initiative would help assuage the feeling of a section of local tribals who are opposing the project on the ground of possible displacement that the project will engender. The proposed hospital will have round-the-clock service, pathology lab and …
Mumbai Gangubai Patil, an Anganwadi teacher for over three decades in Pophran village, has no place to call home. A fortnight ago, she was served with a notice from the gram panchayat to evict her tin shed, classified as
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday stressed the need for enhanced public-private partnership in an early warning and effective emergency response system to mitigate the effects of disaster. He was addressing at the inaugural ceremony of the conference organised by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), marking fourth anniversary …
Mango buds, honeysuckle and muster-flower are blooming earlier in the winter. Foggy days are longer than in the past and northern part of Bangladesh is no more cooler. Cyclone and flood are becoming common and frequent every year. These are indications of a warming climate. The Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable …
In the course of a visit to about 25 villages located in four districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, the author came across several examples of village communities coming together to fight pollution and displacement. In some cases a leading role has been played by elected village pradhans. In fact in …
