Land of sufferance

People of a village in Orissa wage a battle against mining companies to protect their lands

Burnt fingers

It is a great shame when the World Bank tells us how to rehabilitate our people

MP project opposed

PEOPLE FIRST

Displacing a livelihood

How do we rehabilitate development project oustees?

Forced migration

A disaster the world prefers to forget

Sea change

Dam construction facilitates

Bangladesh ravaged by floods

Even as annual monsoon floods devastate Bangladesh, a plan formulated by the World Bank to prevent flooding is bogged down in controversy

It's a damp squib

Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic-Christian thought dominate the report

A monumental failure

The report on the Sardar Sarovar does not address crucial issues like water-saving technologies, lowering the dam height and reducing the size of …

Taken at the flood

Statehood first, ecology later

Jharkhand's leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not …

Number of people forcibly displaced crossed 100 million in 2022: UNDP

Climate change could displace over 200 million people by 2050

Submerged by dams

MALAYSIA

Forced resettlement violates people's rights

The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts a resolution that will have direct bearing on the controversial Narmada clam in Gujarat.

Forests march

A walkathon through 5 states traverses through a rich crop of traditional conservation methods -- and a thicket of disputes

A question of rights

A NGO asks the NHRC to prevent the dislocation of Van Gujjars of the Rajaji National Park by the Uttar Pradesh government

Putting in place

Resettlement and rehabilitation of persons displaced by land acquisitions must form a part of the Land Acquisition Act, says NHRC

Simply Put: The Polavaram paradox

Watch: How fishing helped Jharkhand farmers displaced by Chandil dam

Jharkhand has doubled its catch of fish between 2013-14 and 2018-19

12 quick facts on global refugee crisis you must know

One in every 113 people globally is either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee

Tehri on, regardless

Is the recent incident at the dam site an indication of things to come?

Fiery volcanoes fact of life for Filipinos

Natural disasters are trying times for people and a test of government ability and determination to handle crises. In the Philippines, the …

Confrontation mine

The Paroja-Kondha tribe of southwest Orissa are waging a battle to save their forests and rivers from mining companies and a profit-driven government