Climate Refugee & International Convention
An increasing number of people globally are facing displacement due to droughts, famines, rising sea levels and other natural disasters caused by climate change. This class of migrants has been labelled as ‘environmental refugees’ in popular literature. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, an international body reviewing trends of internal displacement, an estimated 24 million people are being displaced annually by natural disasters since 2008. This crisis will make almost half a billion people worldwide “environmental refugees” by the end of the century.
- The UN Refugee Convention (1951) grants certain rights to people fleeing persecution because of race, religion, nationality, ....
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Economic Development
- 1 The North-South Divide: Key Issues
- 2 The North-South Economic Divide
- 3 Fifteenth Finance Commission
- 4 Implications of Special Levies
- 5 The Goods & Service Tax
- 6 Recent Trends in Central Transfer to States
- 7 The Finance Commission
- 8 Centre-State Financial Relations: Indian Context
- 9 Exclusion in Panchayat Elections
- 10 Does Reservation Policy Need Reform
- 11 Are Tribals Really Benefitting from the Forest Rights Act
- 12 Why Transgenders are Considered as Vulnerable
- 13 Economic Opportunities for Differently-abled
- 14 Climate Refugees in The Indian Subcontinent
- 15 Inequality in Urban India
- 16 Urban Poverty in India
- 17 Urban Development & Transformation
- 18 Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs
