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 …
Confederation of Indian Industry, Eastern Region, organised a session with Prof. John D. Macomber, Lecturer in Real Estate at Harvard Business School, on sustainable development of urban infrastructure and construction sector here on Wednesday, according to a CII release. Focusing on advance research interests in the area of policy, finance …
This essay contends that the economic liberalization, privatization and globalization (LPG) model of development in India is virtually depriving the tribal people and other agriculture dependent poor people of their traditional means of sustainable livelihood by promoting the unregulated growth of mineral-based industries in the tribal regions of India. In …
This paper describes and discusses community-driven land tenure initiatives to address the issue of access to land in urban areas in the Philippines. This includes countering actual and threatened displacements from market-driven land, housing and urban development policies, mega-infrastructure development and disasters. The paper begins with a review of the …
The Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) was planned in 1962 as a goods service linking five important work areas of the city. Subsequently, it was upgraded for commuter use as well. Pakistan Railways now wish to upgrade and expand the circular railway and double-track those parts of it that are single …
This paper describes the changes in official policy on riverside development in Surabaya, negotiated by the residents of low-income riverside settlements through their organization, Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya (PWS). They shifted the official policy from relocation to redevelopment by organizing the riverside communities and by developing their own proposals to …
JHARSUGUDA: Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has recruited the first batch of 22 members of the project displaced families (PDF) in technician grade for its aluminium plant project here recently. The initiative comes a few months after the district administration distributed Record of Rights among the PDF families in June this …
SOON, SOCIAL AUDIT OF SEZS IN THE STATE: PATKARSOCIAL activist Medha Patkar termed the SEZ (Special Economic Zone) Act as the special exploitation act, during her visit to Chennai, on Thursday. She announced that as a mark of people's protest against this kind of land grab displacement, National Alliance of …
Floods, storms, drought and other climate-related natural disasters drove 20 million people from their homes last year, nearly four times as many as were displaced by conflicts, a new UN report said on Tuesday. The study tried to quantify for the first time the number of people forced to flee …
Orders rehabilitation of 900 families affected by Man dam for 12 years, tribal families displaced by Man dam in Madhya Pradesh have been fighting for rehabilitation. On August 11, the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court gave them relief by ordering the state to provide two hectares of …
Please accept my greetings I am a Dongria Kondh and take pride in my identity. I live in the Niyamgiri hills. The hills are also the abode of our gods. It never occurred to us or our ancestors that our home or way of living would one day come under …
Dillip Satapathy / Bhubaneswar September 4, 2009, 1:31 IST Compensation to squatters would push up land acquisition cost. Posco India, which is looking to set up a 12-million-tonne steel plant near Paradeep in Orissa, has decided to treat the encroachers squatting on the government land earmarked for its project on …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: In a major plan to overcome water shortage in the state, Gujarat government is all set to come up with a massive scheme to store thousands of million cubic metres (MCM) of water underground at a very low cost. It is called Managed Aquifer Recharge …
Climate change is already increasing the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, and the numbers of natural disasters reported and people affected are rising. However, data on disaster-related displacement has not been consistently collected or analysed. This report presents the results of a study carried out by IDMC and OCHA …
BERHAMPUR: After being put on the backburner for decades, the Cheligada irrigation project in Ganjam district has finally been put on fast-track by the Government. The project will irrigate lands in Ganjam and Gajapati districts, supply drinking water to Berhampur city and generate power. As part of the project, the …
14 villages in Vidarbha to drown as authorities hurry dam project ahead of elections a decision to close the gates of Gosikhurd dam on the Wainganaga river in Maharashtra
"It was the Urbs Prima in Indis but it is now at best an imperfect city," says the Mumbai Human Development Report-2009 about the city. The report, copyrighted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and developed with the United Nations Development Programme, India, indicates that the solution to decongesting Mumbai …
