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Peasants Pay the Price for Cheap Vegetable Oil |
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By: Grain |
| 22 September 2014 |
Palm oil is ubiquitous in our food systems. Look at the ingredients on any packaged food, and chances are you will find it there. Food companies love it, because it`s cheap and abundant, so they use it whenever they can.
Demand is set to grow even further, as free trade agreements
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Report: "Under-mining" Agriculture |
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By: Grain, Gaia Foundation |
| 18 September 2014 |
The world`s food production and millions of small farmers and communities are under increasing threat from the rapid expansion of mining, says a new report released today.
Under-Mining Agriculture: How the Extractive Industries Threaten our Food Systems, produced by The Gaia Foundation and global allies, exposes the hidden costs of mining
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India: Indigenous Communities Face Evictions |
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By: Sikh Siyasat Bureau |
| 05 September 2014 |
Bangalore/New Delhi, India (September 05, 2014): According to Amnesty International India [t]housands of people from marginalised communities living near a state-owned coal mine in Chhattisgarh are at risk of being forcibly evicted.
“On 28 August 2014, authorities began to demolish houses in Ponri village in Korba, Chhattisgarh as part of efforts
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UN Body Condemns US for Criminalizing Homelessness |
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By: National Center on Homelessness and Poverty |
| 02 September 2014 |
WASHINGTON DC—The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva today stated it is "concerned at the high number of homeless persons, who are disproportionately from racial and ethnic minorities ... and at the criminalization of homelessness through laws that prohibit activities such as loitering, camping, begging, and lying in
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Sports Mega-Events and the Urban Environment |
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By: Urbanology |
| 23 August 2014 |
This post focuses on the major influence that sports mega-events have in the urban environment nowadays. The thesis mentioned here makes an analysis of these sports mega-events (in this case the Olympics in Rio in 2016) as main tools for accelerating and deepening neoliberal urban development. The research focuses on
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Nigeria: Forced Eviction Victims Inadequately Compensated |
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By: Amnesty International |
| 19 August 2014 |
The World Bank endorsed the Lagos state government’s inadequate compensation package for thousands of people forcibly evicted from an informal settlement, Amnesty International said in a report published today.
The report, At the mercy of the government, finds that the residents of Badia East whose homes were bulldozed on 23
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Land Grab and the False Promise of Food Security |
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By: Destaw Andargie (PhD), Horn Tribune |
| 19 August 2014 |
One can only speculate why the secretive government of Ethiopia is giving away the country’s fertile land to foreign agribusinesses. But we know the official explanation; that is, such ‘long-sought’ agricultural investments enhance the country’s food security. For a country that is intuitively associated with hunger and starvation, there should
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Rights Defender Odindo Opiata Dies in Nairobi |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 17 August 2014 |
We are gravely saddened by the passing of Odindo Opiata, executive director of one of the most exemplary human rights NGOs in Kenya: Hakijamii, Economic & Social Rights Centre. He was a brilliant lawyer, widely respected for his insight and integrity. He has been a good friend and a trusted
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Myanmar: Farmers Protest against Land-Grabs |
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By: elevenmyanmar.com |
| 14 August 2014 |
About 1,000 farmers in Kantbalu Township, Shwebo District of Sagaing Region on August 13 staged a protest to ask for the return of confiscated lands and fair trials.
The protestors called for the immediate release of 56 jailed farmers, ending the prosecution of farmers, the return of confiscated lands, the stoppage
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Gaza: Long-lasting Damage to Agriculture |
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By: FAO |
| 14 August 2014 |
Rome/Gaza—The fighting in Gaza has forced farmers and herders to abandon their lands and has paralysed fishing activities, bringing local food production to a halt and severely affecting livelihoods, FAO warned today. Recovery in the agriculture sector, once hostilities cease, will require significant external assistance over the long term.
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India: 206 Shanties on Served Eviction Notices |
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By: Time of India |
| 14 August 2014 |
Forest officials have put up a beat chowky and issued eviction notices to over 206 slum dwellers, who set up their homes on forest lands in Rabale. Officials are also patrolling the landslide-prone area and warning residents against venturing there.
But residents are reluctant to move out. "We have been
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Kazakhstan: Women Protesting Land Confiscation |
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By: RFE/RL`s Kazakh Service |
| 06 August 2014 |
Five women protesting the confiscation of their property by the Kazakh government have started a hunger strike.
The women gathered in a house belonging to one of the protesters, Altyn Chervalieva, and announced their hunger strike on August 6.
Chervalieva`s house and land on the outskirts of the capital, Astana, are
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Hungary: Residents Evicted in Miskolc Slum |
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By: MTI, Politics.hu |
| 06 August 2014 |
Residents were evicted in the northeastern city of Miskolc on Wednesday as part of the local government’s efforts to eliminate slums in the outskirts of the city.
The Roma self-government of Miskolc organised a protest in Miskolc on Wednesday afternoon against the evictions.
A woman and a family with three children were
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Geographies of Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Insecurity |
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By: Katherine Brickell |
| 05 August 2014 |
Forced eviction, claims UN-Habitat, is a “global phenomenon” and “global crisis.” Figures published by the agency indicate that during the 2000s at least 15 million people globally were forcibly evicted. According to Amnesty International forced evictions are “when people are forced out of their homes and off their land against
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Ukraine: 100,000 People Internally Displaced |
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By: Press TV |
| 05 August 2014 |
The United Nations` refugee agency says over 100,000 people have been internally displaced in Ukraine and another 170,000 people have fled to Russia.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday of a massive exodus over the crisis in eastern Ukraine, saying the number of
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World Bank Charts More Dispossession |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 29 July 2014 |
Despite the World Bank’s claims at its Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in 2013 to improve its development-lending practices, the recently revealed outcome of its process has left development organizations and human rights defenders to register their grave disappointment.
The Bank publicly committed to ensuring that its new
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Lwandle Eviction like Apartheid Forced Removals |
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By: SAPA, Dispatch live.com |
| 29 July 2014 |
The violent removal of people and structures from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town resembled removals during apartheid, an affected resident said in Lwandle today.
Xoliswa Masakala and her husband Albert had been living on the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) land since December 2013, when they were removed last month.
They
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Islamic State Evicts Iraq farmers |
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By: Sophie Cousins, AlJazeera |
| 29 July 2014 |
The group`s takeover of farms in Qaraqosh, 30km from Mosul, has caused fear among residents, and a jump in food prices.
Qaraqosh—In the dark of night, on a farm about 30km southeast of Iraq`s second largest city, Mosul, Sabah Zura Sukkariyya woke to the sound of a truckload of gunmen arriving
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UN-HRC to Investigate Gaza Crimes |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 24 July 2014 |
GENEVA—The UN Human Rights Council met in Special Session on 23 July 2014, following the launch of the Israeli military operation, “Protective Edge,” directed at Gaza. In the three weeks since, Israel has killed more than 1,890 Palestinians, including at least 429 children and 196 women, in the intensive bombardment from
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Nairobi: Church Thugs Attack Wetland Defenders |
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By: Chrispinus Wekesa, The Star |
| 12 July 2014 |
Nairobi—Three people were injured on Saturday when armed youths guarding construction workers at the controversial Westlands wetland Peponi Road plot clashed with demonstrators.
The demonstrators were led by Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi, Mazingira institute Executive director Davinder Lamba and Onyango Oloo.
They were protesting against the construction of a perimeter
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