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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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Brazil: Law Threatens Indigenous Land Rights |
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By: Luiza Paiva, Global Witness |
| 20 July 2021 |
The Brazilian law threatening Indigenous land rights
In Brazil, Indigenous Peoples are at the centre of a dispute threatening their land and human rights, as well as the fight to save our planet. A series of anti-indigenous bills have been proposed in the Brazilian Congress that pose huge risks to the
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Israel’s JNF Secret Ops to Get Palestinian Land |
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By: Hagar Shezad, Haaretz |
| 15 July 2021 |
Israel Recruited the Jewish National Fund to Secretly Buy Palestinian Land for Settlers
Haaretz reveals details of a series of deals carried out by Himanuta, a Jewish National Fund subsidiary, in the West Bank, one of which involved the Defense Ministry. The Bakri house in Hebron, for example, was bought for
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UN Unveils Plan to Halt Biodiversity Loss |
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By: edie newsroom |
| 12 July 2021 |
`Urgent policy action needed`: UN unveils draft Paris-style plan to halt biodiversity loss
Eliminating all plastic pollution and ending $500bn of annual government subsidies that harm nature are among the targets in a UN draft plan for averting Earth`s sixth mass extinction.
The draft plan has been released today (12 July) by the UN Convention
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UN Unveils Plan to Halt Biodiversity Loss |
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By: edie newsroom |
| 12 July 2021 |
Eliminating all plastic pollution and ending $500bn of annual government subsidies that harm nature are among the targets in a UN draft plan for averting Earth`s sixth mass extinction.
The draft plan has been released today (12 July) by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), following pre-talks for the 15th Biodiversity COP in Kunming,
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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
and International Organizations:
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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Texas Criminalizes Homelessness |
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By: National Low-income Housing Coalition |
| 28 June 2021 |
Texas Passes Statewide Camping Ban
Amid a housing affordability crisis, cities across the U.S. have been struggling with their unsheltered populations. Two years ago, Austin, Texas, decriminalized activities related to homelessness. But this year, citizens voted to re-criminalize them — as the state banned “public camping.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation on
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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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Sudanese Women adopt positive Discrimination Principle |
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By: Radio Dabanga |
| 20 June 2021 |
Over 30 associations of displaced women from war zones in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and Darfur regions have demanded the adoption of the principle of positive discrimination for justice and access to rights, along with fair compensation for injustices and at least 20 per cent representation of women at
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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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