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Monday, September 08, 2008

Climate Change and the Future Ahead of Us

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Ishita Dey Walter Kälin, Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and Co-Director, Brooki...

Displaced Lives

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Debdatta Chowdhury ‘Once a displaced, always a displaced’. Instances are abounding as if to hold the phrase true. Lebanon is just another st...

Gender, Conflict and Migration. Vol. 3, Ed. Navnita Chadha Behera, Series Editor, Meenakshi Thapan

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Tarangini Sriraman Navnita Chadha Behera in her introduction argues that feminist knowledge is transformative knowledge and this point illus...
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Resistance to Displacement through Forest Rights Act

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Priyanca Mathur Velath Displacement and resistance have co-existed in India’s history since even before its independence. However, the past ...

Women Migrants and their Sexual Health in Jammu and Kashmir

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Anju Munshi Displacement for women provides a fertile ground for the worst kind of social economic and viral epidemics and this is proved tr...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

2008 Global Refugee Survey by USCRI Focusing on India

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Sahana Basavapatna The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) in its recent Global Refugee Survey for 2008 gave India a distinctio...

Human Rights Watch Reveals Disturbing Realities of Conflict-Induced Displacement in Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh

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Ishita Dey In a latest finding by Human Rights Watch, which is based on four weeks on-the-ground research in Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh...

A High Court Ruling in Bangladesh in July 2008 Declares 250,000 Biharis or “Stranded Pakistanis” as Citizens

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Ishita Dey On 26 November 2007, 11 members of the Stranded Pakistanis Youth Rehabilitation Movement (SPYRM), including its president, Sadaka...

Revisiting the Structure of Refugee and IDP Camps

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Ishita Dey Jim Lewis in an article on refugee camps in New York Times Magazine analyses the possible reasons behind the basic structures of ...

Need for Fresh Look at 1951 Convention and Relevance of Post Colonial Experiences

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K.M. Parivelan The Refugee Convention, which was formally adopted on 28 July 1951, forms the foundation of the modern international legal sy...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Is Beijing’s Authoritarian Capitalism Face of the Future?

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Ishita Dey Slavoj Zivek in the Article ‘Who are the good guys?” in International Herald Tribune ( May 31-1 June 2008 ) reflects on the relat...

Reconstruction of New Orleans

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Debdatta Chowdhury The news piece ‘Drowning By Numbers, Or The Non-Reproduction Of New Orleans’ by Benedict Seymour (February, 2006) is an o...

The Bombing of IOM Office in East Nepal Sheds New Light on Resettlement of Refugees in a Third Country

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Ishita Dey Right to return has been one of the pertinent questions raised by refugee activists for decades. The recent resettlement programm...
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Amitendu Palit and Subhomoy Bhattacharjee 2007, Special Economic Zones in India – Myths and Realities. Delhi: Anthem South Asian Studies.198pp

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Ishita Dey The book explores as its title suggests some of the myths and realities of the economic prospect of SEZs in India. SEZs as we all...

Why Bangladesh Needs Refugee Law?

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Udatta Bikash Bangladesh was born experiencing refugeehood. During our liberation war in 1971, an estimated 10 million people (one out of ev...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Blasts in Jaipur Results in Increased Patrolling at the Borders

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Debdatta Chowdhury The string of blasts that took place in Jaipur on 13 May 2008 is yet another manifestation of the extreme intolerance tha...
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Gujjar Agitation is Likely to End?

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Ishita Dey Eighteen people were killed in police firing at Sikandra in Dausa district in Rajasthan on May 24, 2008 as Gujjars continued thei...
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Are Agri Export Zones (AEZs) Better Than Special Economic Zones (SEZs)?

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Ishita Dey In an article by Ashok B Sharma in Financial Express (link provided) , he argues that Agri Export zones have the potential to boo...

Situation of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa

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Debdatta Chowdhury Xenophobia or the ‘fear of foreigner’ has been a pressing issue globally and is manifest in the mass scale violence amoun...

New Economic Spaces, Displacement and Right to Life

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Ishita Dey Studies on SEZ have focused on the social conflict, discourses of development paradigm but rarely have tried to understand the re...