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MGoS" "HLPF 2021 Failed!" |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 23 July 2021 |
Major Groups and Other Stakeholders (MGoS) Coordination Mechanism Statement on the 2021 Ministerial Declaration
United Nations High Level Political Forum Fails to Respond to the Call of Peoples in Times of Crises! Its Ministerial Declaration Does Not Rise to the Occasion for Bold and Transformative Action
The United Nations High Level Political
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State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report, 2021 |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 23 July 2021 |
When the first cases of COVID-19 made headlines a year and a half ago, few would have imagined the magnitude the pandemic would reach and the disastrous outcomes that would follow. What started as a health crisis, quickly turned into a livelihood and food crisis. Millions of people have lost
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Palestine: Urgent Appeal to Release Shatha Odeh |
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By: Submitted by Odeh and Abu Fannouneh Families |
| 11 July 2021 |
Urgent Appeal for the Release of Ms. Shatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh, Director of the Health Work Committees (HWC)
For the attention of: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Michele Bachelet Jeria
1. Introduction
Ms. Shatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh (Palestinian I.D. 937893063), a 60-year-old mother of three, was subject to Israel
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Romania: Sign-on to Halt Evictions |
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| 07 July 2021 |
Appeal to the Romanian State Authorities
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Increased Risk of Eviction in Pata Rât of Cluj-Napoca!
The current situation
More than 10 years have passed since the eviction of 76 Roma families from Coastei Street in Cluj-Napoca and their forced relocation near the city`s waste dump in Pata Rât. The children of
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Gaza: World Bank Sets War Losses @ $570 mil |
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| 07 July 2021 |
US$570 million physical and economical losses in Gaza, says World Bank
RAMALLAH—The eleven days of hostilities in May 2021 in Gaza resulted in the loss of over 260 people, including 66 children and 41 women, and exacerbated previous traumas in particular among children. The human toll was aggravated by overall damage
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Human Rights and Land Event: Friday, 9 June |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 05 July 2021 |
Draft general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Friday 9 July 2021, 13:30 – 16:30 CEST
live on Zoom from Villa Moynier, Geneva
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is now developing a general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The purpose of this general
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Nordic Fund Bans 16 Firms over Illegal Colonies |
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By: Gwladys Fouche and Simon Jessop, Reuters |
| 05 July 2021 |
Nordic fund KLP excludes 16 companies over links to Israeli settlements in West Bank
OSLO—Norway`s largest pension fund KLP said on Monday it would no longer invest in 16 companies including Alstom ALSO.PA and Motorola MSI.N because of their links to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Along with a number of other countries, Norway considers
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The Nakba and the Polish Law |
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By: Gilad Atzmon, Al Mayadeen net |
| 30 June 2021 |
In 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by the newly born Jewish `State`. This catastrophic racially driven crime is called the Nakba.
"Israel" seems upset by a new Polish law that sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property. The legislation is yet to be approved by
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Lebanon’s Sectarian Oligarchic Economy |
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By: Mat Nashed, Fanack |
| 30 June 2021 |
How a Sectarian Oligarchy Destroyed Lebanon’s Economy
Lebanon is coping with an unprecedented banking crisis that has plunged more than half of the population into poverty. Those responsible are sectarian political elites who have plundered the economy since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990.
Besides a glitchy downtown quarter reserved for the rich
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USA: Florida Keys Sinking |
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By: Oliver Milman, Mother Jones |
| 25 June 2021 |
Florida Keys’ Fate: “The Water Is Coming and We Can’t Stop It”
As seas rise and storms intensify, residents face a stark reality.
Long famed for its spectacular fishing, sprawling coral reefs and literary residents such as Ernest Hemingway, the Florida Keys is now acknowledging a previously unthinkable reality: it faces being overwhelmed by
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Brazil: Indigenous Protest New Land Law |
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By: Anthony Boadle, editing by Matthew Lewis/Reuters |
| 24 June 2021 |
Police tear gas indigenous protest for land rights in Brazil
BRASILIA, Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a group of indigenous people protesting on Tuesday outside Brazil`s Congress against a bill lawmakers were about to debate that would undermine recognition of protected reservation lands.
The protesters, among them
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Special Rapporteurs on adequate housing @ 20 |
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By: OHCHR |
| 22 June 2021 |
Today, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, presents his report to the UN Human Rights Council: “20 years Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Tacking stock – moving forward”
The report (A/HRC/47/43) highlights key achievements and contributions of the mandate since its establishment
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Tanzania: Safari Tourism Evict Maasai en Masse |
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By: Oakland Institute |
| 16 June 2021 |
Thousands of Maasai Face Eviction for Safari Tourism in Tanzania
The threat that “Fortress Conservation” poses to the survival of Indigenous communities around the world is growing. Amidst the daily flood of emails, we wanted to ensure that you didn’t miss our latest report sounding the alarm on massive, planned evictions
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UN to Plumb “root causes” in Israel/Palestine |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 27 May 2021 |
The UN Human Rights Council convened a special session on 27 May 2021 to debate and vote (24–9) on a resolution to urgently dispatch an open-ended commission of inquiry in response to the recent events leading to military conflict between Israel and armed groups in the blockaded and besieged Gaza
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Irish Parliament: Israeli Colonies = Annexation |
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By: Cate McCurry and James Ward, Independent |
| 26 May 2021 |
Ireland has become the first EU member state to declare the building of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories as de facto annexationز Ireland became the first EU member state to do so after a Sinn Fein motion received cross-party support in the Dail.
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A Dail motion, tabled by Sinn Fein, was passed
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Israeli Settler Money Trail Found |
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By: Uri Blau / Shomrim, Forward |
| 25 May 2021 |
The money trail behind the Jerusalem eviction battle that sparked the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence, exposed
One of the triggers for the recent conflagration in East Jerusalem, which quickly spread across Israel, was an effort to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Like so many real-estate cases over the so-called Green Line that
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Palestine: Call for Action |
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By: CIHRS |
| 25 May 2021 |
HRC 30th Special Session: Call on the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution on the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel
On 27 May 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will hold a Special Session in relation to the
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Palestine: CSOs Urge States` Diligence in UNHRC |
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By: Various NGOs |
| 21 May 2021 |
Joint letter to Permanent Missions to the UN at Geneva
Regional and international civil society organizations from around the world call on UN Member States to address the escalating and institutionalized Israeli attacks against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line during the 30th HRC Special Session (Endorsing signatures listed
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Climate Change Displaces Over 40 Million |
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By: Ajit Niranjan, Deutsche Welle |
| 20 May 2021 |
Extreme weather displaces record numbers of people as temperatures rise
More than 40 million people were driven from their homes by continued conflict and worsening weather in 2020 as the climate grew increasingly chaotic.
Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising
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Gaza: Refugees Shelter at UNRWA Schools |
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By: UNRWA |
| 19 May 2021 |
Displaced Palestine refugees seek shelter at UNRWA schools in Gaza
Format
In the Gaza Strip, where approximately 70 per cent of the population are Palestine refugees, catastrophic bombardment is being carried out as the besieged coastal enclave enters the 14th year of an air, land and sea blockade that has devastated lives, infrastructure and
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