90 days of Sudan strife: Country saw decade’s displacement in just 10 weeks, says analysis

Unlike conflicts in Blue Nile or Darfur, this time the displacement is nationwide; Khartoum worst-affected  

2022 saw the sharpest rise in people forcefully displaced due to violence, climate crises

Over 108 million people displaced by end of 2022, driven by war in Ukraine, climate disasters  

National parks are luxury in Third World

KRISHNA B Ghimire, who is a project coordinator with the UN Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, has done extensive research on …

Koel Karo battles on

Tribals have been fighting the Koel Karo dams for the last 20 years - the longest struggle against a project. Now, a fresh budget fuels the …

How and when to displace

THE DAM AND THE NATION DISPLACEMENT AND RESETTLEMENT IN THE NARMADA VALLEY·Jean Dreze, Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh·Oxford …

Half truths

LARGE DAMS: LEARNING FROM THE PAST, LOOKING AT THE FUTURE, WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS·Edited by Tony Dorcer·International Union for …

People first

The Sri Lankan Supreme Court rules against a mining project that would have displaced thousands of people

Simply put: Development, non-development & displacement

Simply Put: Land mines

Police firing sparks protests

Keep the debate within the country

Making hay while forests shine

Big dams, more displacement

The birds are back

Wrong banishment

Get out

Same old story. Dam threatens to displace tribals to appease rich farmers

Africa accounts for 80% of neglected displacement crises, says report

The Democratic Republic of Congo topped the list; an average of 6,000 people were forced out of their homes every day in 2020

Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

When the land shouts

Van Gujjars in the Shivalik foothills vociferously claim managing authority of the Rajaji National Park

Rising waters

Activists against the Narmada dam gear up to face the submergence of the first set of villages

Small is more

A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals

Skin-deep Hinduism

Desperate Hindu extremists are making a mockery of the real problems that the river Ganga faces

Patkar unperturbed by exodus of villagers

Medha Patkar, doyenne of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which opposes the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on the Narmada river, has won a major …

Twice ousted

Caught in a crossfire

A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists' ire