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India: Forced Eviction in 2020 |
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By: HLRN - India |
| 12 September 2021 |
Housing and Land Rights Network- India is pleased to announce the launch of a new report – Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic. The report reveals that during the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 to July 2021, the Indian government demolished,
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India Evicted 21 People Every Hour during COVID |
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By: Rina Chandran - Thomson Reuters Foundation |
| 09 September 2021 |
More than 250,000 people were evicted across India during the coronavirus pandemic, and millions more are at risk of being uprooted as authorities eye projects for faster economic growth, housing rights campaigners warned on Thursday.
From March 2020 to July 2021, authorities demolished more than 43,000 homes and evicted about 21
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Egypt’s ‘Best Practice’ toward 2030 SDGs |
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By: World Bank |
| 07 September 2021 |
UN Lists Upper Egypt Local Development Program as a Best Practice to Achieving Results Towards 2030 SDGs
Story Highlights
The Upper Egypt Local Development Program is strengthening the capacity of local government to deliver quality infrastructure and services and improve the environment for private sector development and job creation in four governorates.
The
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Israel Demolishes al-`Araqib 192nd Time |
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By: The Palestine Chronicle |
| 04 September 2021 |
Israel Demolishes al-`Araqib Village for 192nd Time
Israeli authorities demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-`Araqib in the southern Negev for the 192nd time on Thursday. The Bedouin families of al-`Araqib rebuild the village every time Israeli authorities demolish it.
The village was first levelled in July 2010, and every time the
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India: War on the Urban Poor in Haryana |
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By: AICCTU |
| 24 August 2021 |
The urban poor of the Delhi-NCR region have been reeling under the disastrous impact of successive lockdowns and the fatal second wave of CoVID. The incessant spells of monsoon rain taking over the city’s roads and spaces have added to their woes. And now the Haryana government has dealt yet
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Zim: Evicted Zanu PF Supporters Stranded |
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By: Jairos Saunyama, Zimbabwe situation |
| 22 August 2021 |
About 200 families that were evicted from a farm on the outskirts of Marondera in June are still living in the open as the government is yet to fulfil its promise to resettle them.
The families, mostly Zanu PF supporters, were kicked out of Maganga Estates, which is owned by Hunyani
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The Afghani Refugee crisis far Beyond the Evacuation Plans |
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By: Sammy Westfall, Washington post |
| 20 August 2021 |
More than 240,000 Afghans have been internally displaced since the U.S. withdrawal began in May. Tens of thousands more have fled their home provinces in the past two weeks.
As Afghanistan’s neighbors, along with other countries in the region and in the West, brace for the possibility of a large-scale refugee
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Biden Admin. Hands Israel Stolen Land |
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By: Michael F. Brown, The Electronic Intidafa |
| 17 August 2021 |
Biden administration and media hand occupied land to Israel
The Biden administration appears to be intent on handing occupied territory to Israel, precisely as the Trump administration sought to do.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics … and then there is Shebaa Farms.
Recently, the US State Department and news media both
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From Neom to Kinshasa: 10 Megacities of the Future |
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By: James Langton, The National (UAE) |
| 16 August 2021 |
From Neom to Kinshasa: 10 megacities of the future
By the end of century, more than 85 million people will live in Lagos alone and the top three megacities in the world could be in Africa
Bigger is not necessarily better and that is certainly the case with cities.
The UN has predicted
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Afghanistan: 270,000 Newly Displaced |
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By: UNHCR |
| 13 August 2021 |
Afghanistan: 270,000 newly displaced this year, warns UNHCR
The worsening security situation across Afghanistan in the wake of foreign troop withdrawal and Taliban advances, has forced an estimated 270,000 from their homes since January, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday, bringing the total internally displaced to more than 3.5 million.
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Remembering Colonialism’s 500 Years |
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By: David Keys, The Independent |
| 13 August 2021 |
Forgotten Anniversary: The Birth of Western Imperialism
Forgotten by most of the world, this month marks the 500th anniversary of one of human history’s most terrible and tragic events – the first large-scale European military conquest in mainland America.
Until then, major European (at that time, exclusively Spanish) military campaigns in the
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IPCC: Dire Warning to Humanity |
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By: Andrea Januta, Reuters |
| 10 August 2021 |
Key Takeaways from the U.N. Climate Panel`s Report
The U.N. climate panel has released its most comprehensive assessment of climate change yet. Here are some of the report`s main conclusions:
Humans Are to Blame - Full Stop
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used its strongest terms yet to assert that humans are causing climate
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USA: Eviction Ban Confusion |
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By: Hamza Shaban, Abha Bhattarai and Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post |
| 05 August 2021 |
Last-minute eviction ban extension fuels confusion and is too late for some
The CDC says the new ban covers 80 percent of counties experiencing high or substantial community spread. But evictions can continue in nearby counties experiencing ‘moderate’ spread.
A last-minute extension of a moratorium barring evictions for covid-struck counties is injecting
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USA: New Eviction Ban till October |
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By: Barbara Sprunt, NPR |
| 03 August 2021 |
The Biden Administration Issues a New Eviction Moratorium after a Federal Ban Lapsed
Days after a national eviction moratorium expired, the Biden administration on Tuesday issued a new, more limited freeze that remains in effect through 3 October.
Like the previous order, the two-month moratorium issued Tuesday comes from the Centers for Disease Control and
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CSOs: UN Food Systems Pre-Summit Fails |
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By: CSM |
| 02 August 2021 |
Thousands of people gather at counter-mobilization to reiterate “We need food systems that empower people, not companies”
UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID, and food systems transformation, say counter-mobilization participants, which totalled almost 9,000 people.
ROME—Between 25 and 28 July 2021, some 9,000 people participated in a
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Paraguay Indigenous Community Evicted in Land Dispute |
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By: Gary Miller, Insider Voice |
| 30 July 2021 |
Asuncion, Paraguay – Marta Díaz sits among a settlement of makeshift tents made of plastic sheeting in a central plaza in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, a few meters from the National Congress building. A brightly painted scene hangs nearby depicting burning wooden rural houses as a group of incredulous people
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USA: Nez Perce Come Home after 100 Years |
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By: Dianne Lugo, Salem Statesman Journal |
| 29 July 2021 |
`Homecoming`: 100 years after forceful removal, Nez Perce people celebrate reclaimed land
JOSEPH, Oregon (OR)—Vice-Chairman Shannon Wheeler has been dreaming about this day for years.
On Thursday, more than 150 Nez Perce (Niimiipuu) people returned and blessed part of their homeland, a hundred years after the U.S Army drove them from the
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Olympic Displacement and Gentrification |
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By: Michael McDougall and MacIntosh Ross, Washington post |
| 29 July 2021 |
Displacement and Gentrification for Preparing the Olympic Games
Unfolding under a State of Emergency, after a year’s pandemic-related postponement, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are a Games like no other. Yet, when it comes to displacing the residents of host cities, these Olympics are very much business as usual. In total, 300
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Water Occupation in Palestine |
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By: RAMA SABANEKH |
| 25 July 2021 |
The talk discusses water’s centrality in Zionist thought and how it affects the occupation’s forms in terms of borders and geographical space. Based on historical correspondence and negotiations that formed the occupation’s identity and refined its policies later, the research argues that it is impossible to understand the form of
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Kenya Supreme Court Rules on Housing Rights |
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By: Jill Cottrell Ghai |
| 24 July 2021 |
Supreme Court finally gets to grips with socio-economic rights under Constitution
Two cases involving the right to housing have been decided in that court this year
Summary:
• The Supreme Court has heard few early cases about human rights such as Muruatetu on the mandatory death penalty for murder (involving the right to
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