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Green Policies for Durban, but a Key Piece is Missing |
By :Richard Meissner, The Conversation |
21 April 2022 |
Green policies are in place for South Africa’s major port city: but a key piece is missing
The floods of April 2022 in the South African city of Durban (eThekwini municipality) placed the spotlight on the management of urban areas and their vulnerability to natural disasters. That homes had been built close to rivers More...
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India: Hindus Riot, Muslim Homes, Shops Burnt |
By :Quratulain Rehbar, Nikkei News |
16 April 2022 |
India violence leaves trail of burned Muslim homes, shops
Islamic scholar complains of properties being `selectively razed`
NEW DELHI—A wave of religious communal violence across India coinciding with a Hindu festival has left at least one person dead, dozens injured, numerous Muslim-owned properties destroyed -- and residents bracing for the possibility of More...
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Why An Indian State Is Razing Muslim Homes |
By :Zoya Mateen, BBC News |
15 April 2022 |
Madhya Pradesh: Why an Indian state is demolishing Muslim homes
The people who would destroy his home came early in the morning, remembers 72-year-old Shaikh Mohammad Rafiq.
A soft-drink seller in India`s Madhya Pradesh state, Mr Rafiq and his sons had had a long night. "It`s Ramadan, so our business usually picks More...
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
By :Joseph Schechla |
24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit More...
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HIC-HLRN Statement on Ukraine War |
By :HIC-HLRN |
19 March 2022 |
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and its Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) condemn forced evictions as a gross violation of the human right to adequate housing in every context. In the case of Russian Federation forces’ invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine, millions of civilians stand as a frontline More...
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Ukraine Refugees: How Many and Where to? |
By :BBC News |
05 March 2022 |
More than one million civilians have fled Ukraine because of the Russian invasion, according to the United Nations (UN).The European Union (EU) says up to four million people may try to leave and that it will welcome refugees with "open arms".Which countries are Ukraine`s refugees fleeing to?Refugees are crossing to More...
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10 Million Could Flee Ukraine |
By :Bart M. J. Szewczyk, Foreign Policy |
04 March 2022 |
There Could Be 10 Million Ukrainians Fleeing Putin’s Bombs
Europe has opened its borders to the continent’s biggest exodus of refugees since 1945.
As Ukrainians flee in massive numbers, Europeans have opened their countries and homes with unprecedented speed and generosity. The scale and pace of the Ukrainian refugee exodus—more than 1 More...
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Ukraine Crisis: Denying Shelter by `Race` |
By :Middle East Monitor |
03 March 2022 |
UN slams double standards by West towards refugees
The spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Shabia Mantoo, has criticised the double standards applied by some Western countries against refugees.
In a press statement on Tuesday, Mantoo explained that open racist statements by some Western politicians and journalists have caused More...
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USA: Most COVID Aid for Low-income Renters |
By :Michael Casey and Fatima Hussein, Associated Press |
25 February 2022 |
Treasury: Most COVID rental aid went to low-income residents
WASHINGTON—More than 80% of the billions of dollars in federal rental assistance aimed at keeping families in their homes during the pandemic went to low-income tenants, the Treasury Department said.
It also concluded Thursday that the largest percentage of tenants receiving pandemic aid More...
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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Committee on Israel’s Sixth Periodic Review |
By :Al-Haq, Addameer, HIC-HLRN, JLAC, CIHRS |
31 January 2022 |
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