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HIC Addresses Habitat III PrepCom2 |
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By: HIC |
| 17 April 2015 |
HIC has addressed the second Preparatory Committee (PrepCom2) of the Habitat III process. That meeting at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya has begun to consider the procedural and substantive issues toward a “New Habitat Agenda” that will be determined at the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and
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Habitat III Basics |
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By: HIC |
| 16 April 2015 |
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World Bank’s Evicted and Abandoned |
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By: Sasha Chavkin, Ben Hallman, Michael Hudson, Cécile Schilis-Gallego and Shane Shifflett, Huffington Post |
| 16 April 2015 |
Beneath a gloomy white sky, more than 100 armed police poured into the slum of Badia East in the teeming megacity of Lagos, Nigeria.
As they advanced, they cracked their batons on the unpaved streets and against the ramshackle walls of the shanties.
“If you love your life, move out!” the officers
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Ethiopia: World Bank Embroiled in Mass Eviction |
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By: Sasha Chavkin, projects.huffingtonpost.com |
| 16 April 2015 |
The soldiers pointed their guns at Odoge Otiri and led the 22-year-old student into the forest outside his village in western Ethiopia. Then, he says, they began pounding him with their nightsticks, leaving him bloody and unmoving.
“I was unconscious,” he recalls. “The reason they left me is they thought I
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UA: Roma Families at Risk of Forced Eviction |
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By: Amnesty International |
| 10 April 2015 |
Around 160 families, mainly Roma, are at risk of forced eviction in the ‘Numbered Streets’neighborhood of Miskolc, Hungary. The authorities must ensure that no one is forcibly evictedfrom their homes.The Municipality of Miskolc, plans to evict all its tenants from the “Numbered Streets” neighborhood in Miskolc, Hungary’sfourth largest city, to
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Thailand: Canal Squatters are Facing Forced Eviction |
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By: Thai PBS News |
| 04 April 2015 |
The eviction process will begin initially along Klong Ladprao which has more than 3,000 squatters.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is going ahead with its plan to construct flood prevention embankments and accordingly, numerous homes along the capital`s nine major canals or klong will be evicted by May.
The eviction process
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India: Land Bill Implies Deep Trouble |
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By: Shivani Chaudhry, Daily News and Analysis |
| 27 March 2015 |
Land acquisition in India has probably never been as debated, as after the decision of the NDA government to circumvent the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 (LARR Act) with an ordinance. While the 2013 Act was not ideal from a human
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Local Authorities Supporting Palestinian Rights |
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By: HIC-HLRN, ECCP |
| 25 March 2015 |
Civil society and social movement participants met with local authorities to discuss the legal obligations and practical examples of cities and local government implementing the principles of nonrecognition and cooperation with parties that violate human rights in Palestine. Joseph Schechla (HIC-HLRN) presented the “self-executing” international law obligations of local authorities
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Press release: Global Platform for the Right to the City |
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By: Right to the City Platform |
| 24 March 2015 |
The Global Platform for the Right to the City, through the organizations involved in it, will participate on the 13th World Social Forum (WSF) at the University of Tunis (Tunisia), from 25th- 27th March. The organization will join the meetings against land grabbing and privatization of water, food sovereignty and
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NEW from HIC-HLRN: “The Land and Its People” |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 19 March 2015 |
HIC-HLRN has just published the English-language version of its compilation of papers and presentations of the MENA Land Forum (2009–13).
This volume compiles the contributions of participants in four rounds of the MENA Land Forum, 2009-2013. It embodies the diagnostic presentations and papers in English translation for the wider international
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What’s Going on with Habitat III National Reports? |
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By: DPU/HIC |
| 18 March 2015 |
As part of a joint research effort with Habitat International Coalition, the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), City University – London, has just produce the first phase of findings from research into the Habitat III national reporting process across the world. This part of the inquiry surveys the diverse processes
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Peasant Sovereignty? |
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By: Evaggelos Vallianatos, Independent Science News |
| 18 March 2015 |
In May 2014, the Spain-based international agrarian organization, Grain, reported that small farmers not only “feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland,” but they are also the most productive farmers on Earth. For example, small farmers and peasants in nine European countries outproduce large farmers. The
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Aid Agencies Fault UNSC over Syria |
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By: Ryan Lucas, Associated Press |
| 12 March 2015 |
BEIRUT—More than 20 international aid groups sharply criticized the United Nations Security Council on Thursday, saying it has failed to implement three resolutions passed last year seeking to boost humanitarian assistance to Syrian civilians caught in the country`s civil war.
The 21 humanitarian and human rights organizations delivered a "failing grade"
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Rural India Rallies for Rights |
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By: Saif Khalid, Al Jazeera |
| 11 March 2015 |
It took eight days of walking for 80-year-old Dhanmatya Mumat to reach New Delhi.
Like thousands of other farmers from rural India, Mumat—from the state of Bihar—made the 1,000km-long trip to the Indian capital to protest proposed changes to a little known land law that he said would destroy his life.
"We
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Erdoğan’s Crazy Canal “Premiers” at MIPIM |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 10 March 2015 |
Istanbul/Cannes—As experts and scientists working in the field have warned (scroll down to the links below please), the Istanbul Canal is “premiering” this week at MIPIM, “the world’s property market” (Cannes, 10–13 March). Described by critics as “insane,” the project will not only devastate Istanbul and its environs, but also
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World Bank Admits Botched Resettlement Policy |
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By: Reuters and Financial Times |
| 04 March 2015 |
World Bank Admits Botched Resettlement Policy
Anna Yukhananov, Reuters
4 March 2015
WASHINGTON—The World Bank admitted on Wednesday that it had no idea how many people may have been forced off their land and lost their jobs due to its projects in developing countries, and whether these people were compensated fairly and on
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Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture |
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By: Frederic Mousseau, Inter Press Service |
| 28 February 2015 |
OAKLAND, USA—At the same time as the United States, Canada and the European Union announced a set of new sanctions against Russia in mid-December last year, Ukraine received 350 million dollars in U.S. military aid, coming on top of a one billion dollar aid package approved by the U.S. Congress
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Ukraine Crisis Enables Corporate Land Grabs |
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By: Chris Arsenault, Thomson Reuters Foundation |
| 27 February 2015 |
ROME—The crisis in Ukraine looks set to trigger major changes in its vast agricultural sector with state-owned farm land and small family plots likely to go up for sale despite concerns over the impact on local farmers, according to development experts.
Ukraine, known as Europe`s bread basket, has the eighth largest
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From Africa`s Palms |
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By: Al Jazeera |
| 25 February 2015 |
There are few products so ubiquitous as palm oil. You can find its derivatives in chocolate, shampoo, toothpaste, detergent, ice cream, floor polish and a host of other products filling supermarket shelves.
Extracted from the fruit of the tropically-grown oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis), it has become so versatile and sought
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Turkey: Security Bill to Quell Dissent |
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By: Hürriyet Daily News |
| 21 February 2015 |
ISTANBUL—The domestic security bill prepared by Turkey`s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has triggered fist-fights in parliament and stirred a popular debate in the country. After a five day delay due to the fights, the debate over the legal package finally started at the General Assembly late 20 Feb.
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