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A Plan to Demolish Historic Cemeteries |
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By: Amira Noshokaty, Ahram online |
| 22 January 2022 |
Cairo’s historic cemeteries are at risk of being demolished, but what is so important about such ancient grave yard?
It was a full house last Saturday, at the seminar and photo exhibition titled Contemporary Cemetery Architecture in Egypt, Value and Challenges. The event was organized by the safeguard of Cairo`s historic
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Tunisia: Harassment, Gender, Sexism in the City |
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By: Soha Ben Slama, Wall Street International Magazine |
| 22 January 2022 |
Tunisia: Harassment, Gender and Sexism in the City
Eternal struggle for the reappropriation of public space by women
It all started with a polemic, around an informal debate, together with friends in the struggle, among feminist women in their sixties, fifties, forties, and thirties and young adults, in all fields, student, researcher,
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Albania: Clash with Police over Forced Evictions |
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By: Barbara Halla, Euractive |
| 20 January 2022 |
The Municipality of Tirana plans to demolish some 400 homes in the Kombinat area of the capital, arguing they have been damaged irreparably by the 26 November 2019 earthquake.
Residents of the “5 Maji” neighbourhood in Tirana clashed with the police on Wednesday as the National Inspectorate began its demolition of
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India: Thousands Face Eviction Order in Mumbai |
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By: Devanjana Nag, financial express |
| 20 January 2022 |
On Monday, occupants of slums, chawls and other illegal structures in Kalwa, Thane and Mumbra were issued notices, which stated that they could endanger railway tracks.
Indian Railways is conducting an anti-encroachment drive in Mumbai suburban rail network. As a part of this drive, authorities of Western and Central Railways are
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Israel Evicted Palestinian Family in Shaikh Jarrah |
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By: Bethan McKernan, the Gaurdian |
| 19 January 2022 |
Family of 15 evicted in East Jerusalem neighbourhood that was a flashpoint for 2021 fighting
Israeli police have forcibly removed a Palestinian family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood where evictions helped trigger a round of fighting between Israel and Hamas last year.
About a dozen police
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Jerusalem: IOF Demolish Sheikh Jarrah Home |
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By: Patrick Kingsley and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, The New York Times |
| 19 January 2022 |
Israel Evicts Palestinians in Flashpoint Area of East Jerusalem
Israelis evicted an extended family and destroyed their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where attempted evictions last year helped spark a war with Gaza.
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JERUSALEM—Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families from their homes on Wednesday to make way
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Understanding Human Rights ETOs |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 15 January 2022 |
The new Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations has just been published and it is available in open access here. This new handbook compiles lessons and analysis by world experts on the human rights obligations of states beyond their territorial borders. It is designed to give meaning and
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Canada: Tax the Real Estate Speculators |
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By: Max Fawcett, National Observer |
| 12 January 2022 |
Tax the real estate speculators — and make it hurt
Opinion: Speculative behaviour in the housing market is causing huge collateral damage, and it’s getting in the way of families’ ability to afford to put a roof over their heads, writes columnist @maxfawcett.
Few publications do rage-inducing real estate clickbait as well
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What Happened to the Eviction Tsunami? |
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By: Yuliya Panfil, David Spievack, Land Portal |
| 11 January 2022 |
Since the pandemic began, housing experts (including one of the authors of this article) have been predicting that the pandemic’s economic fallout would produce an eviction “tsunami(link is external)” that could put as many as 40 million people(link is external) out of their homes.
The experts are still waiting.
When the pandemic first surged
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EU-AU Food Summit ‘Hot Potato’ |
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By: Benjamin Fox and Gerardo Fortuna, EURACTIV.com |
| 06 January 2022 |
Green farming ambition is a hot potato ahead of EU-AU summit
The issue of vaccine hoarding and African vaccine production is likely to dominate the long-delayed EU-African Union (AU) summit but both sides want to beef up cooperation on agriculture policy as well.
The much-awaited sixth meeting of the EU’s and AU’s
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Kashmir Land Case: ‘Property a Constitutional Right’ |
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By: Sparsh Upadhyay, LIveLaw.in |
| 03 January 2022 |
“Right to Property a Constitutional Right”: J&K&L High Court Orders 10 Lakh Compensation in `Illegal` Deprivation if Land Case
Underscoring that the right to property is a Constitutional right that has been acknowledged to be akin to a fundamental right and a basic human right, the Jammu and Kashmir and
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World’s Most-expensive Cities Now |
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By: Time out |
| 21 December 2021 |
A new ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has compared the cost of living in 170 cities – and there’s a surprising entry at number one
The world has been turned upside over the past two years. And so, it’s no wonder an annual ranking of the most expensive cities across
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Palestine: Environmental Colonization and Apartheid |
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By: Ben Lorber, Red-Green Labour |
| 16 December 2021 |
Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
This article follows an earlier post on Red-Green Labour about the campaign to keep the JNF out of Cop 26, and reprints a 2012 article by the author, with updates.
In 1997, a bridge collapsed at an international sports event in Israel, pitching more than 100 Austrian athletes
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China Housing Market Slumps Again |
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By: Martin Farrer, The Guardian |
| 15 December 2021 |
China housing market slumps again as another developer runs into trouble
House prices, sales and construction all fell in November as Shimao Group shares plunge and Beijing assesses what to do with Evergrande
China’s giant housing market has continued to decline in the past month and another major developer showed signs of
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Russia Vetoes UNSC Linking Climate Crisis & Peace |
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By: Associated Press |
| 13 December 2021 |
Russia vetoes UN security council resolution linking climate crisis to international peace
The resolution proposed that the climate crisis could potentially threaten ‘global peace, security and stability’
Russia has vetoed a first-of-its-kind UN security council resolution casting the climate crisis as a threat to international peace and security – a vote that
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USA: Manhattan Hotel Now for Homeless |
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By: Lauren Aratani, The Guardian |
| 10 December 2021 |
Manhattan hotel reopens as homeless shelter despite protest from Billionaires Row residents
The residents spent over $300,000 in lawsuits claiming ‘crime and loitering’ by the occupants would lead to ‘irreparable injuries’
Just a few steps away from the horse-drawn carriages that whisk tourists through New York’s Central Park and the opulence of
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South Africa: Communities Sue over Extractivism |
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By: Victoria Schneider, Mongabay |
| 10 December 2021 |
Indigenous communities in South Africa sue, protest off-shore oil and gas exploration
Thousands of South Africans, including Indigenous communities, mobilized in a national protest last Sunday against Shell’s planned seismic survey in search for oil and gas reserves off the country’s eastern Wild Coast – with more protests planned this weekend.
Two
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Nigeria: Orisunbare Communitiy Calls for Mercy |
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By: Applaud News |
| 29 November 2021 |
Orisunbare community call for mercy and reversal of the 10 days eviction notice served by LASG
The Orisunbare community of some 6,000 inhabitants in Lagos State, Nigeria has issued the following appeal to remove the threat of eviction.
The entire community of Orisunbare Areas, through Hon. Comrade Sulaimon Kamaldeen A. (OloreAyo), seeks
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New Wave of Displacement, Killing Civilians |
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By: Abdi Latif Dahir |
| 26 November 2021 |
At least 43 people have been killed in clashes in the area, the U.N. says, while the nation’s leaders are focused elsewhere, dealing with the fallout from a coup.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Dozens of people have been killed and their villages burned in inter-communal violence in Sudan’s West Darfur state, the
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India Uses Israeli Silencing Tactic in Kashmir |
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By: Vision for Hope |
| 25 November 2021 |
UN criticizes arrest of rights activist in Indian KashmirStory by ReutersUpdated
Rights groups including the United Nations have criticized the arrest of a prominent activist in Indian-administered Kashmir on terror funding charges. Khurram Parvez was arrested late on Monday by India’s federal National Investigation Agency (NIA), an Indian official
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