Forced migration
- Protection and human rights issues in natural disasters, Asia
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005
- This document outlines a working visit to Asia by the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Walter Kälin. Based on these working visits, the report gives an ove...
- Is forced displacement acceptable in conservation projects?
- Kai Schmidt-Soltau / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Over ten million people have been displaced from protected areas by conservation projects. Forced displacement in developing countries is a major obstacle to reducing poverty. It should no longer be considered a mainstream strategy fo...
- Guidelines for the donor community in Indonesia after the tsunami
- Amnesty International, 2005
- In response to the earthquake and tsunami which devastated large parts of the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) and surrounding areas, this paper calls on the donor community to ensure that relief and reconstruction efforts a...
- Migration too complex for pure environment argument
- F. Flintan / Engendering Eden, Cork, 2001
- This paper assesses the relevancy of the concept of 'environmental refugees'. It begins by defining the term and discussing the four main causes of environmental migration: human-induced environmental change en...
- Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement
- Jason Stanley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to ...
- Displaced priorities? The Three Gorges resettlement programme
- Shawn Steil; Duan Yuefang / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The Three Gorges Project on China’s Yangtze River is as controversial as it is massive. The largest development-induced displacement project in the world, it will see the resettlement of 1.2 million people by 2009. What recent p...
- Victims of progress: resettling people displaced by development
- David Turton; Chris de Wet / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Infrastructure development projects annually displace over ten million people. Dams, mines, urban renewal projects, water and sewage pipelines, roads and railways all lead to the loss of residence and livelihoods. Do the resettlement ...
- The rise of the environmental refugee: nightmare in the making?
- Stephen Castles / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Is environmental degradation set to create new waves of displaced people seeking asylum in the north? Will refugee camps and shantytowns foster civil disorder, pandemics and political extremism to threaten the interests of the develop...
- Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?
- Theodore E. Downing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by large-scale dam, infrastructure and ...
- Dams, displacement and the disaffected in India
- Manthan,; K. Ghosh; R. Kumar / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The displacement of peoples from areas where two large dams are being constructed under the Subarnarekha Multi-purpose Project (SMP),is the focus for this paper. Different organisations directed/are directing the movements in these tw...
- Protection and human rights issues in natural disasters, Asia
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005
- This document outlines a working visit to Asia by the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Walter Kälin. Based on these working visits, the report gives an ove...
- Is forced displacement acceptable in conservation projects?
- Kai Schmidt-Soltau / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Over ten million people have been displaced from protected areas by conservation projects. Forced displacement in developing countries is a major obstacle to reducing poverty. It should no longer be considered a mainstream strategy fo...
- Guidelines for the donor community in Indonesia after the tsunami
- Amnesty International, 2005
- In response to the earthquake and tsunami which devastated large parts of the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) and surrounding areas, this paper calls on the donor community to ensure that relief and reconstruction efforts a...
- Migration too complex for pure environment argument
- F. Flintan / Engendering Eden, Cork, 2001
- This paper assesses the relevancy of the concept of 'environmental refugees'. It begins by defining the term and discussing the four main causes of environmental migration: human-induced environmental change en...
- Not giving a damn: private financiers and dam displacement
- Jason Stanley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- During the last fifty years, between 30 and 80 million people have lost their homes and livelihoods through dam construction. In the wake of fiscal crises and changing donor priorities governments are turning to the private sector to ...
- Displaced priorities? The Three Gorges resettlement programme
- Shawn Steil; Duan Yuefang / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The Three Gorges Project on China’s Yangtze River is as controversial as it is massive. The largest development-induced displacement project in the world, it will see the resettlement of 1.2 million people by 2009. What recent p...
- Victims of progress: resettling people displaced by development
- David Turton; Chris de Wet / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Infrastructure development projects annually displace over ten million people. Dams, mines, urban renewal projects, water and sewage pipelines, roads and railways all lead to the loss of residence and livelihoods. Do the resettlement ...
- The rise of the environmental refugee: nightmare in the making?
- Stephen Castles / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Is environmental degradation set to create new waves of displaced people seeking asylum in the north? Will refugee camps and shantytowns foster civil disorder, pandemics and political extremism to threaten the interests of the develop...
- Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?
- Theodore E. Downing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by large-scale dam, infrastructure and ...
- Dams, displacement and the disaffected in India
- Manthan,; K. Ghosh; R. Kumar / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The displacement of peoples from areas where two large dams are being constructed under the Subarnarekha Multi-purpose Project (SMP),is the focus for this paper. Different organisations directed/are directing the movements in these tw...
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