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 …
At least 27 people have died in northwestern Pakistan and nine are missing in flash floods since the weekend that have also destroyed houses, crops and livestock, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The final toll could be higher," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the U.N. Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), told …
BHUBANESWAR: The anti-industrialist forces in the State were in the news for opposing establishment of different projects in Orissa during 2008. According to the white paper circulated by the Home Department, the displaced and the affected persons also launched agitations during the year. But the local administrations were able to …
About 82 families in Bajura district have become homeless due to floods and subsequent landslide. In Kuldevmandau VDC, 6o families have been displaced and other 22 in Kailashmandau-6 VDC. The VDC office informed that some seven families of Bane village have been taking shelter in a local school while other …
The large rally-cum-publicmeeting of adivasi peasants, organised by the Bastar Sambhag Kisan Sangharsh Samiti on 1 June in Jagdalpur, opposing the construction of the Bodh Ghat dam and the privatisation of mines and river water resources was an eye-opener. In the savage war for
Guwahati: A wave of flood, triggered by incessant rains along the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh and eastern Assam districts, has killed two persons and inundated hundreds of hectares of crop land rendering over two lakh people homeless so far in Dhemaji and Lakhimpur districts where rivers, on spate, have overtopped …
Ramaswamy R. Iyer The very fact that the government is thinking of a rehabilitation law and of amending the Land Acquisition Act is an achievement for public opinion. The debate about the displacement of people caused by various developmental projects has been going on for over two decades. Without going …
The Jharia Rehabilitation and Development Authority (JRDA), in-charge of relocating thousands of families who will have to vacate their homes on the mining town
Dissatisfied with the progress of the ongoing fire zone rehabilitation, Jharia Coalfield Bachao Samiti, a frontal organisation fighting against forced evacuation, has decided to launch awareness campaigns among school students and masses, along with a peace rally pressing for residents
Siddhesh Inamdar Mumbai: Project-displaced people from Pune, Hingoli, Nandurbar, Satara and other districts of Maharashtra gathered at the Azad Maidan here on Thursday and announced the start of an indefinite demonstration, asking for justice. The agitation has been organised by the National Alliance of Peoples Movements and is being led …
Urbanisation in India is both a necessary input and an inevitable consequence of growth. However, we must accept that the existing urbanisation models are unsustainable at the Indian scale and there is no available alternative trajectory. The international climate change negotiations can be seen as an opportunity to create an …
The Mapithel Dam Affected Ching-Tam Organization (MDACTO) chairman, Rantha Shaiza, addressing a press conference in Imphal today, said that they were not against the construction of Mapithel dam, their only demand was that the Government of Manipur give appropriate compensation without any discrimination to the people affected by the dam. …
More than 200 people of 39 families have been displaced due to the flood at Sikidim of Tamku-9 in Sankhuwasabha on Thursday. The police officers who are in the rescue mission have started to collect the numbers of displaced. Landslides have started to occur at Devithandanda where displaced 18 families …
Hundreds of families have been displaced from their homes in various districts across the country due to floods ensued by incessant rains since the past few days. More than 600 houses have been inundated in various villages of Kapilvastu including Krishna Nagar, Semara, Jhande Nagar, among others due to heavy …
The government yesterday donated houses to 495 families who were displaced by the construction of the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project, inaugurated by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President
The inevitable displacement of indigenous people due to transformation of their habitats for use in industrial projects is one of the consequences of the Indian economic growth story. Many issues abound
About 21,750 people of several riverbank areas are likely be landless and homeless as erosions by the Jamuna, Padma and Ganges rivers will devour 2,178 hectares of land in 17 districts of the country this year.
Three major rivers of the country---the Jamuna, the Ganges and the Padma---devoured 1,58,780 hectares of land, rendering about 20 lakh people homeless since 1973, a research organisation working with river and water resources said here on Wednesday. A study report of the Centre for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), …
Four construction workers are dead and more than 50 missing after a landslide took out a dam project in Sichuan province, in the latest of a series of disasters caused by heavy rains in southwest China. Flooding along the steep mountains that witnessed last year's earthquake has brought more misery …
OUR CORRESPONDENT Dhanbad, July 22: Taking the Jharia rehabilitation drive a step forward, the Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) today served notices to some residents of Bokapahari area, asking them to vacate their houses. Yesterday, the company had suspended 62 employees for refusing to shift from the Ghanudih Open Cast …
