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Farmers’ Panel Decries Eviction of Growers |
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By: Dawn |
| 01 September 2020 |
LAHORE: The Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee has criticised ‘forced’ eviction of peasants from the federal government’s Jaranwala lands.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, a PKRC office-bearer said many peasants, including women and children, have been injured in the police operation continuing for the last three days to evict the
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Court to Cape Town: “redress apartheid legacy” |
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By: Murray Williams, news24 |
| 31 August 2020 |
High Court sets aside R135m Sea Point school sale, frees land to address apartheid legacy
· The Tafelberg school property case has been running for five years.
· Finally, the High Court has ruled, upholding the legal challenge by two not-for-profit organisations.
· The sale of the land has now been reversed – much to
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Kenya: New Alternative Justice System Policy |
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By: Moses Muoki, Capital News |
| 28 August 2020 |
Maraga Launches Alternative Justice System to Reduce Case Backlog
NAIROBI—Chief Justice David Maraga has launched the Alternative Justice System (AJS) Policy which is aimed at enhancing access to justice and supporting expeditious delivery of justice to citizens.
Speaking at the Supreme Court on Thursday when he presided over the launch of the
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Land Reform Leads to Eviction |
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By: Anna Majavu, Newfarm.com |
| 25 August 2020 |
An 88-year-old woman has been threatened with the culturally taboo removal of her family’s ancestral graves after being evicted from the farm she worked on for decades.
ight decades of hard labour on a white-owned commercial farm did not pay off for an elderly Eastern Cape woman, who was promptly evicted
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Palestine: Join Al-Haq Law School Program (10/2020) |
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By: Al Haq |
| 24 August 2020 |
Al-Haq International Law School Program, 12–22 October 2020
The Al-Haq Center for Applied International Law is pleased to announce its Sixth International Law Summer School Program for professionals, legal researchers, post-graduates and academics in the fields of international law and human rights.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing uncertainty around international
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Indonesia: 1,800-km March against Evictions |
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By: Harry Jacques, Reuters |
| 24 August 2020 |
Indonesian farmers walk 1,800-km to protest against evictions Harry Jacques, Reuters
More than 100 Indonesian farmers gathered outside the presidential palace in Jakarta on Monday, having walked about 1,800 km (1,118 miles) from the island of Sumatra to protest against forced evictions from their lands.
About 170 farmers began the
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USA: `Scarlet E`= Eviction as Life Sentence |
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By: Kaelyn Forde, Al Jazeera |
| 21 August 2020 |
Sandi Bachom, 75, never expected to be evicted. She once earned a six-figure salary at a New York City advertising firm and lived a comfortable life. But after getting divorced, losing her job and getting hit by a car, she fell behind on her $3,000 monthly rent payment.
In April 2012,
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Indonesia: Indigenous Timor Families Evicted |
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By: Ryan Dagur, Union of Catholic Asian News |
| 18 August 2020 |
Evicted Indonesian families vow to stay put
Dozens of people in Catholic-majority province left homeless as land dispute turns violent
Defiant members of an indigenous community in Indonesia have vowed to stay put after security forces fired tear gas and demolished their homes on Aug. 18 in a bid to
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Yemen: Houthis Kill, Expel Ethiopian Migrants |
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By: Human Rights Watch |
| 13 August 2020 |
BEIRUT--Houthi forces in April 2020 forcibly expelled thousands of Ethiopian migrants from northern Yemen using Covid-19 as a pretext, killing dozens and forcing them to the Saudi border, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi border guards then fired on the fleeing migrants, killing dozens more, while hundreds of survivors escaped
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India: Turning 170K-ha Forest to Coal |
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By: Hannah Ellis-Peterson, The Guardian |
| 08 August 2020 |
India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields
Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population
Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a battleground. The war being waged in Hasdeo Arand, a rich and
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Land Times issue 20 |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 08 August 2020 |
HIC’s Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) welcomes you to its 20th issue of Land Times. This milestone edition emphasizes the role of civil society in identifying and remedying housing and land rights problems in the context of a global pandemic.
Amid this protracted crisis, events and developments in the Middle
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Brazil: Resisting Pandemic Repossessions |
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By: Alexander Putti, CartaCapital |
| 06 August 2020 |
On Monday, 10 August, representatives of urban and rural popular movements and parliamentary fronts for urban reform and human rights met virtually with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia, to ask for the vote on the bills 1975/2020 and 827/2020 that suspend the removal and reintegration actions
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Land Redistribution has become ‘Elite Capture’ |
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By: Moira Levy, Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva, Newfarme.com |
| 06 August 2020 |
South Africa’s land reform programme was supposed to ensure that the impoverished get to own and work the land. Now, only the politically connected and economically included are benefitting.
he majority of actual beneficiaries of land reform to date are from the urban middle class, according to the Institute for Poverty,
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Occupied Kashmir: "India learned from Israel" |
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By: Dawn |
| 05 August 2020 |
Youm-e-Istehsal Kashmir: India learned how to change regional demography from Israel, says President Alvi
As Pakistan marks one year to the revocation of Indian-occupied Kashmir`s special status, President Arif Alvi on Wednesday lashed out against New Delhi for its ongoing oppression of Kashmiris, saying that "India has learned how to
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USA: Eviction Wave as Moratoriums End |
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By: Regina Garcia Cano and Michael Casey/AP |
| 04 August 2020 |
Wave of evictions expected as moratoriums end in many states
BALTIMORE— Kelyn Yanez used to clean homes during the day and wait tables at night in the Houston area before the coronavirus. But the mother of three lost both jobs in March because of the pandemic and now is facing eviction.
The
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Occupied Kashmir’s Year of Exploding Memories |
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By: Adil Amin Akhoon, Sharafat Ali, Foreign Policy |
| 02 August 2020 |
In Kashmir, a Year of Exploding Memories
A year after the state’s special status was revoked, peace remains a distant hope.
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir—Over the past year, life in Indian-administered Kashmir has grown markedly more challenging. On 5 August 2019, New Delhi revoked Article 370—which had guaranteed a measure of autonomy
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Peru: HIC Examines SDG Process |
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By: Silvia de los Ríos - CIDAP |
| 31 July 2020 |
In July 2020, the Voluntary National Review of Peru about advances toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the 2030 Agenda was presented at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) in the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, that was organized by the UN Department of the Economic and
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USA: Mass Evictions to Hit People of Color Hardest |
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By: Camilo Maldonado, Forbes |
| 29 July 2020 |
Update: mass evictions set to begin - communities of color to be hardest hit
NEW YORK, NEW YORK—During a Monday interview on Fox Business, White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow backtracked his comments made Sunday and clarified that the eviction moratorium extension would be for mortgages in forbearance.
With regards
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2019 Deadliest Year for Land Defenders |
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By: Al Jazeera |
| 29 July 2020 |
`More dangerous every day`: Land rights defenders killings surge
Colombia and the Philippines account for more than half those killed in 2019, with Indigenous people at greatest risk.At least 212 people were killed last year while defending their land from being taken over by industry, Global Witness said on Wednesday, making
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Zimbabwe to Compensate White Farmers $3.5b |
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By: Reuters/SABCNews |
| 29 July 2020 |
Zimbabwe agrees to pay $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers
The agreement signed at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State House offices in Harare showed white farmers would be compensated for infrastructure on the farms and not the land itself, as per the national constitution.
Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.5 billion in
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