PERSPECTIVE PAPER ON DISPLACEMENT
TARUN KANTI BOSE

(The Study done with support from Child Rights & You (CRY)

PERSPECTIVE PAPER ON DISPLACEMENT
TARUN KANTI BOSE
Displacement, or the problem of communities evicted from their homelands, is arising from
four broad reasons1 in India:
Political causes, including secessionist movements: Examples are th...  more>>

Coal mining destroying the health of people in Jharkhand state of India.
Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi
October 26, 2010
The health hazards, degeneration of the health conditions of the people especially tribal women and children and water contamination is one of the most serious impacts of coal mining in Jharkhand State of India.
Jharkhand is an area ...  more>>

The Miners` Rescue: A View from Chile
By Dan Morgan

Posted on Portside
18 October 2010

After the 5th of August, for 17 days the whole country held its breath, hoping that 33 miners trapped in the San José mine would be found, and found alive. Nothing was certain. As the test boreholes advanced, so did the horror at the sc...  more>>

Still dying for coal?
At first glance, China’s coal-mining industry seems loaded with risk: it produces one-third of the world’s coal but accounts for more than 70% of
mining accidents each year. However, behind the tragic headlines is a sector that is making huge strides. Deaths per million tonnes of coal produced fell
from 6.1 in 2000 to 0.89 in 2009. The rate of im...  more>>

WATER IN MINING AREAS

R.Sreedhar

FOREWORD
MESSAGE FROM ICMM TO COMMUNITIES WHO MAY BE AFFECTED BY MINING

ICMM
This Guide represents a key milestone on a journey that began for ICMM in 2004, when we started working to support more constructive relationships between Indigenous Peoples and mining companies. Since then we convened two international roundtab...  more>>

MoEF/MoTA Committee Report of visit to Jagatsinghpur Orissa
Published on August 5, 2010 in Forest Rights, anti-posco and displacement.
23-24 July 2010
4 August 2010
 

Comments and Recommendations on the IFC’s proposed
Policy on Social and Environmental Sustainability and
Performance Standards
By Leonardo A. Crippa* and Rebecca Aleem**
July, 2010

Mineral reserves of the world may not last long.
By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi

The use of minerals has been instrumental in raising the standard of living of mankind. The names of the minerals and their products have been used to christen various eras of civilization, such as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Nuclear Age. The sophistic...  more>>

The Forever War:
Inside India’s Maoist Conflict
Megha Bahree

CHHATTISGARH STATE, India—It was 4 p.m. one March afternoon in 2008. The victims were living in a relief camp in a village called Matwada. Two dozen members of a government-backed civilian militia,  accompanied by at least one police officer, burst into their homes. ...  more>>