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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Human Development Report highlights Maldives’ regional divide
The UNDP’s second Human Development Index (HDI) report for the Maldives urges stakeholders to address regional inequalities which remain a “major challenge” towards human development. The first sub-regional
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Climate change may put children at considerable risk: Report
KATHMANDU: Climate change may put children at considerable risk of violence, abuse and multiple forms of poverty, particularly through displacement, migration and erosion of assets and livelihood alternatives,
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Mumbai’s population growth rate is twice that of the state
Census figures point out that over 50 per cent of migration into the state was due to the availability of employment and business opportunitie at large. Mumbai, the sprawling megapolis spread over 600
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Early back-to-Africa migration into the Horn of Africa
Genetic studies have identified substantial non-African admixture in the Horn of Africa (HOA). In the most recent genomic studies, this non-African ancestry has been attributed to admixture with Middle
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New Zealand refuses climate change refugees – mass action is now needed
New Zealand’s court of appeal has refused refugee status to a family from Kiribati, a Pacific island which is quickly sinking beneath the sea No refugees please, we’re New Zealanders. That’s the message
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Natural Cities
Cities should be able to manage themselves and be self-sustaining, with a single energy input. This article presents the idea of natural cities.
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From Haiti to the Amazon: Public health issues related to the recent immigration of Haitians to Brazil
In late 2010, Haitian immigrants began to arrive at remote river border crossings in the western Brazilian Amazon. Attracted by the prospect of work in Brazil's burgeoning economy, thousands of Haitians
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Is wild boar heading towards movement ecology? A review of trends and gaps
<p>Studies about the movement of mammals have recently gained much emphasis thanks to the development of new tracking technology, allowing highly accurate recording of animal movement. However, the amount
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Urbanization and spatial patterns of internal migration in India
While rural-rural migration continues to be the largest in terms of magnitude, this paper published by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research documents an increase in two-way commuting across rural and urban areas.
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2.6cr to migrate by 2050 for climate change
20 lakh to 50 lakh people will migrate due to riverbank erosion, 30 lakh to 60 lakh due to inland flooding and 50 lakh to 70 lakh due to coastal storm surges A recent study finds as many as 1.6 to 2.6