COVID-19: Integrating urban and rural safety nets in Africa
Helping urban residents cover costs of return, providing sanitary supplies and scaling up health system surveillance can constitute a safe rural …
Climate change will displace millions in coming decades; nations should prepare now to help them
By the middle of this century, experts estimate that climate change is likely to displace between 150 and 300 million people
Uttarakhand: as problems pile up, youths see wisdom in migration
The ecologically-sensitive state is crying for government interventions on several fronts
Kolkata and Sundarbans: climate change rhetorics
The Indian Sundarbans, covering an area of nearly 10,000 sq km and having a population of 4.5 million, is facing a serious threat
Migration should be out of choice, not a desperate last resort: FAO head
Large-scale cross-border movements in recent years have sparked tensions in some countries, placing migration high on the diplomatic agenda
Lake Chad Basin: 1.4 million children displaced; many suffer from malnutrition
About 67,000 children under five are likely to die in Nigeria’s Borno and Yobe states in September
Africa loses more money than it gets in aid
While annual global aid is less than $30 billion, the continent incurs loss of $58 billion every year
Battle zone: Humans vs elephants
Afterwards, an eerie silence envelops the field. There is only the crop -- no longer standing -- and the heavy tread gouged in the mud. This is …
India in a microcosm: Will COVID-19 reverse migrants pick up the plough again? Palanpur throws up a question
Palanpur has been closely monitored and studied since the early 50s to help economists, policy makers understand the changing rural landscape of …
Kampala Declaration on climate change, human mobility now has 48 African countries as members
As many as 105 million people could become internal migrants within the African continent in a business-as-usual scenario
Migration in India: A shift in agenda
Migration is an adaptation strategy for communities vulnerable to climate change impacts. Governments should plan for such demographic shifts
How desertification is silently fueling conflicts
More than 100 countries are at the risk of desertification. Left unchecked, this could fuel conflicts and displace 700 million people worldwide …
Dump yard in elephant corridor poses threat to wild animals
The dump yard is attracting animals for food and has waste of an entire town of a population of about 50,000 people
Will the Paris climate deal include issue of forced climate migration?
Experts say that displacement and migration occurs because of the failure of adaptation in most vulnerable countries and, therefore, should be …
City on trial
Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan
Climate shocks, conflicts worsen displacement in Mozambique: UNHCR
Mozambique dealing with climate-induced migration in south, conflict-induced migration in north
Extreme weather events in India made women, children more vulnerable to modern slavery, flags report
Cyclones in India, particularly in the Sundarbans, made locals vulnerable to traffickers and drove them into forced labour, the report …
National migrant policy: A good first draft
NITI Aayog’s draft national migrant policy takes a rights-based approach and discusses importance of collective action to help migrants …
From quarters to kothis: A migrant couple’s journey to nowhere
Safety nets of millions of migrant workers came apart as COVID-19 lockdown came into force
Climate change and water: Ripple marks
People with lower socio-economic status, migrants and refugees are most vulnerable to the impact of climate change on water
Climate crisis, air and water pollution emerging threats to children: Unicef
Global climate crisis is threatening children's basic rights — a clean environment to live in, clean air to breathe, water to drink and …
Camel dairying: The solution to rescuing Rajasthan’s state animal
If demand for camel milk rises, more livelihoods could be supported and more camel herds saved
How can Jharkhand fight distress migration?
The collapse of natural assets is fuelling migration in the state. A recent study throws light on problems faced by tribal communities, …
Report paints thought-provoking picture of developing world due to climate change
The report says that climate change threatens the economic growth trajectories of India, Bangladesh and Indonesia
COVID-19: Will Uttarakhand be able to provide work to its migrant population?
More than 330,000 people have returned to their villages so far, with Almora and Pauri Garhwal districts getting the greatest number of returnees