World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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Introducing the transnational climate impacts index: indicators of country-level exposure – methodology report
This paper presents a framework for analysing countries’ exposure to transnational climate impacts – which occur in one country as a result of climate change in another place. It presents nine indicators,
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Climate Change: India plans women-friendly agricultural equipment
Experts have repeatedly said that men are migrating from the rural areas due to climate change Men are migrating to cities, leaving behind women in villages. That's impacting agriculture as women find
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Border security fencing and wildlife: The end of the transboundary paradigm in Eurasia?
<p>The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe has seen many countries rush to construct border security fencing to divert or control the flow of people. This follows a trend of border fence construction across
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Labor adaptation to climate variability in Eastern Africa
As countries design climate change adaptation policies, it is important to understand how workers alter behavior in response to changes in temperature. Nonetheless, the impact of temperature on labor markets
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Satellite tags aim to shed light on endangered hawksbill sea turtle migration
Scientists are tagging hawksbill sea turtles in a key South Pacific breeding ground, hoping that information fed to satellites will help them better understand the endangered species' nesting, feeding
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Global Resettlement Needs 2017
With a multitude of conflicts and crises causing record displacement around the world, resettlement has become an increasingly vital part of UNHCR’s efforts to find solutions and advocate for fairer responsibility-sharing
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HC seeks data of drought migrants in Mumbai
Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought factual data of the number of people who migrated from drought areas to Mumbai. A bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice M S Sonak who heard a suo motu public
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Water scarcity causes exodus in Doti village
Water scarcity in a remote village of Doti district has led many of his inhabitants to migrate over the last four decades. Only 35 families remain in Thali these days, but the water trouble of the villagers
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Japan Caribbean climate change project invests $72m in Jamaica
The Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will this morning launch the Jamaican component of the US$15-million Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP) at the
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Climate change also a cause of migration: Report
KATHMANDU, June 1: A study has revealed climate change as one of the factors behind migration in South Asia. The report 'Assessing Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration Nexus in South