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Zim Farmers Flourish after 2001 Land Grab |
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By: Godfrey Marawanyika, Bloomberg News, Chicago tribune |
| 04 November 2013 |
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Bonus Matashu points to a three-ton truck he bought for $15,000 in cash and says President Robert Mugabe`s often violent program of seizing white-owned farms and giving them to black Zimbabweans turned around his life.
"This is the best thing that could have happened to me and my
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Palestinians Threaten Suit over Colonies |
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By: Deen.TV |
| 02 November 2013 |
JERUSALEM: Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki on Thursday denounced Israeli plans to build hundreds of new settler homes in east Jerusalem, threatening to pursue international legal action in response.
Israel announced on Wednesday it would build 1,500 new settler homes in the mostly Arab sector of Jerusalem, immediately after the Jewish
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PA to Plant 750,000 Olive Trees |
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By: Ma`an |
| 26 October 2013 |
RAMALLAH—Caretaker Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said on Saturday that the Palestinian Authority will compensate Palestinians whose olive trees have been damaged by Israeli settler attacks by planting 750,000 olive trees across the West Bank.
Hamdallah stressed that the Palestinian Authority is working to limit the obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation
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Diyarbakir Mayor to Armenians: "My City Is Your City" |
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By: Armenian Weekly |
| 24 October 2013 |
DIYARBAKIR—Speaking at a reception held on the occasion of the closing of the dome of the Sourp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakir, the mayor of the greater Diyarbakir municipality Osman Baydemir told the Armenians gathered there: “This city is yours as much as it is mine. You have as much
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Haiti`s Post-earthquake Forced Evictions |
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By: Kevin Edmonds, The Other Side of Paradise |
| 23 October 2013 |
It has been almost four years since Haiti was hit by the 7.0 earthquake which left over 100,000 dead and an estimated 1.5 million people homeless. The 278,000 internally displaced people who currently remain in the tent camps have been living an extremely precarious existence without access to the most
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Indian Firms Acquire 1.3mn Hectares Abroad |
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By: S. Venkat Narayan, Sunday Island |
| 23 October 2013 |
As cultivable land at home is lost to urbanization, industry and infrastructure projects, Indian companies are acquiring land in Asia and Africa for farming.
So far, Indian companies have acquired nearly 1.3 million hectares of land in a dozen countries: Ethiopia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania, Sudan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Uganda
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Palestinian CSOs Say "Kill Red-Dead Project" |
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| 21 October 2013 |
The undersigned Palestinian NGOs call on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to halt all forms of cooperation with the World Bank-sponsored Red Sea - Dead Sea Conveyance Project (RSDSCP) and to take an unequivocal public stance to reject the project.
It has become clear beyond
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Food, Fuel, and the Global Land Grab |
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By: Lester R. Brown, Futurist Magazine Vol.47, No.1 |
| 20 October 2013 |
Growing demand for food and fuel has put pressure on the world’s agricultural lands to produce more. Now, a trend in “land grabbing” has emerged, as wealthy countries lease or buy farms and agribusiness in poorer countries to ensure their own future supplies. The result may be further economic disparities
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Put a Number on It: Quantifying Costs, Losses and Damages from the Violation of Housing and Land Rights |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 13 October 2013 |
In telling a story, or making any point, we often rely on numbers. In argumentation, numbers lend credibility and suggest analytical precision. Numbers often speaker louder than words, because they convey important measurements and values that otherwise may not be visible to the mind’s eye.
When telling the story of housing
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Transnational Corporations and Land Rights Violations |
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By: Irit Tamir, Oxfam |
| 02 October 2013 |
Today Oxfam launched a new phase in our Behind the Brands campaign to ensure land rights for rural communities are part of the supply chains of the Big 10 food and beverage companies.
Oxfam’s newly published report, Sugar Rush: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage
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Palestine: Gaza out of Drinking Water by 2016 |
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By: Thirsting for justice.com |
| 29 September 2013 |
The Gaza Strip is fast running out of clean drinking water. Unless immediate action is taken, the UN estimates that the underground aquifer on which Gaza relies will be unusable by 2016, and irreversibly damaged by 2020. You can take action today and support the people of Gaza by:
1. Signing
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Ethiopia: No Human Rights = No Development |
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By: HIC-HLRN/Oakland Institute |
| 26 September 2013 |
OAKLAND CA— In a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on September 15, 2013, the Oakland Institute and the Housing and Land Rights Network outlined the human rights and international law violations perpetrated by the government of Ethiopia in the name of country’s development
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Neo-colonialism, China accused “Land Grab” in Ukraine |
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By: Alex Spillius, The Telegraph |
| 25 September 2013 |
Ukraine has agreed a deal with a Chinese company to lease 5% of its land to feed China’s burgeoning population, it was reported on Tuesday.
It would be the biggest so called “land grab” agreement, where one country leases or sells land to another, in a trend that has been compared
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Investors and Land Grab of Farmers |
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By: Pascal Liu, The guardian |
| 20 September 2013 |
Land grabbing has become a hot topic in the international development community and beyond. The term usually refers to the acquisition of large areas of land by powerful investors, without respecting the rights and interests of the local users like farmers, herders and foresters.
Estimates vary widely because of the difficulty
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Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab |
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By: Richard Schiffman, Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 27.3 Fall 2013 |
| 16 September 2013 |
If you were organizing dinner parties for the world, you would need to put out 219,000 more place settings every night than you had the night before.1 That is how fast the Earth’s population is growing. But global agricultural production is currently failing to keep pace. A June 2012 report
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Ethiopia under Human Rights Review |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 16 September 2013 |
In the current, second round of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of all UN member states, Ethiopia soon faces the scrutiny of its peers. While the full review is scheduled for January 2014, HIC-HLRN and Oakland Institute (USA) have prepared and submitted a joint stakeholder submission
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Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab |
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By: Richard Schiffman, Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 27.3 Fall 2013 |
| 16 September 2013 |
If you were organizing dinner parties for the world, you would need to put out 219,000 more place settings every night than you had the night before.1 That is how fast the Earth’s population is growing. But global agricultural production is currently failing to keep pace. A June 2012 report
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Durban Officials Face Imprisonment for Cato Crest Evictions |
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By: SERI |
| 12 September 2013 |
SERI represents residents of the Cato Crest informal settlement whose shacks were illegal demolished by eThekwini Municipality and the Land Invasion Unit. On 1 and 2 September 2013 the municipality illegally demolished shacks at the settlement, in violation of an undertaking made to the Durban High Court on 22 August
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Tokyo 2020 |
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By: Christopher Gaffney, Hunting White Elephants |
| 10 September 2013 |
A year ago I wrote a post predicting that Istanbul would get saddled with the 2020 Olympics. That was before I had been to Istanbul. That was before Taksim. That was before the Vinegar Revolt. A year ago, the mega-event monolith appeared to be ready to roll on eternally, ever
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Romania: Protests Erupt over Canadian Mine |
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By: Deutsche Welle |
| 04 September 2013 |
Rosia Montana--"They take our gold, and we get cyanide," they shout. Demonstrators that range from environmentalists to parents with their children, students, poorly clad pensioners, and well-off looking middle class citizens have been protesting in Bucharest for days now. Their signs read: "Treason in exchange for a bit of money!"
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