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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Feeling the heat: child survival in a changing climate
Climate change greatly increases the risk that the most basic rights of children in poor countries will not be met. These children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of global warming and yet least to blame. Save the Children
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State of world population 2009: facing a changing world - women, population and climate
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change as they make up the majority of the world's 1,5-billion people living on less than $1 a day and the climate-change debate needs to be reframed putting people at the centre,concludes this annual report released by UNFPA.
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Migration and human development
The Human Development Report 2009 breaks some myths about migration. (Editorial)
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Lost in comparison (editorial)
The Human Development Report (HDR) for 2009 (with data till 2007) has been published. Too often, there is fixation with India
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Migration hugely beneficial to the poor
Vidya Subrahmaniam NEW DELHI: The 2009 Human Development Report (HDR), released simultaneously across the world on Monday, makes a strong case for removing barriers to migration within and across borders, arguing that human movement had brought perceptible all-round benefits and held the potential to improve the lives of millions of poor and low-skilled people.
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India 134 In Human Development Index
LIFE IN INDIA SUCKS, FINDS UN REPORT INDIA
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After deluge, flood of migration in Bellary
Satish Shile, Siruguppa (Bellary), Oct 5, DHNS: The rhythms of life have been disrupted by the ruinous floods in village after village of Siruguppa taluk in Bellary district, triggering a mass migration which will take weeks, if not months, to reverse.
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Corridors: routes for adaptation
Biological corridors have conventionally been seen as a means of countering habitat fragmentation and facilitating species movements between protected areas. The NGO, Corporaci
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Call to beef up urban infrastructure
Confederation of Indian Industry, Eastern Region, organised a session with Prof. John D. Macomber, Lecturer in Real Estate at Harvard Business School, on sustainable development of urban infrastructure and construction sector here on Wednesday, according to a CII release.
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Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility
<p>The impacts of climate change are likely to affect population distribution and mobility. While alarmist predictions of massive flows of refugees are not supported by past experiences of responses to droughts and extreme weather events, predictions for future migration flows are tentative at best.