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Kenya: Houses Demolished along Mombasa Road |
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By: KTN news |
| 21 May 2014 |
Several houses along Mombasa road that were under construction have this morning been demolished by the Kenya Veterinary Vaccines Production Institute (kevevapi). The government parastatal claims that its land has been grabbed by unscrupulous people and attempts to dialogue with the builders have failed. Today’s demolitions saw executive housing limited
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Leilani Farha, New UN Special Rapporteur |
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By: Andrew Duffy, Ottawa Citizen |
| 12 May 2014 |
OTTAWA—Ottawa’s Leilani Farha, a lawyer and anti-poverty activist, has been appointed UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing.
Farha, executive director of Canada Without Poverty, learned of her appointment Wednesday, which also happened to be her birthday.
Farha holds a law degree and a master’s degree in social work from the University of
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Massive Displacement in South Kordofan |
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By: Nuba Reports |
| 30 April 2014 |
Government forces are making one final push to capture territory before seasonal rains make troop and vehicle movement impossible.
After nearly a month of blanket shelling and pillaging in nearby Rashad and Abbasiya, a Rapid Support Force unit captured Abri, just south of Delami on April. The RSF unit is
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Big-4 Aussie Banks and Forced Eviction |
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By: The Malaysian Insider |
| 28 April 2014 |
Big-4 Aussie Banks and Forced Eviction
Australian banks financing illegal logging, forced eviction, child labour, says Oxfam
28 April 2014
The Malaysian Insider
Oxfam on Monday accused Australia`s big four banks of financing companies the charity said were linked to illegal logging, forced evictions and child labour.
A report by the aid group
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Kenya: Forced Evictions is a City’s Quiet War |
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By: Samantha Spooner, Nairobi News.com |
| 25 April 2014 |
Earlier this month, the residents of Deep Sea slum in Westlands, were dealt a nasty blow when a fire razed the settlement, rendering at least 200 homeless.
But this is not the only challenge that this settlement has faced. 10,000 residents of Deep Sea have been served an eviction notice by
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US Housing Aid to Haiti Falls Short |
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By: Amelie Baron, Thomas Reuters Foundation |
| 16 April 2014 |
PORT-AU-PRINCE—A post-earthquake housing program in Haiti funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has delivered only a quarter of the planned number of homes at nearly twice the budgeted cost, according to a government audit.
The project was part of reconstruction efforts in Haiti, where a devastating earthquake in
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Habitat III Expectations @ WUF7 |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 11 April 2014 |
The Housing and Land Rights Network of Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN) is organizing a networking event at the World Urban Forum 7, Medellín, Colombia to present civil society´s expectations and needs from the process and outcomes of the global Habitat III Conference in 2016. The networking event will take place
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CSOs Oppose Privatization Post-2015 |
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By: CESR |
| 11 April 2014 |
After a lengthy process of consultation and deliberation, talks over the post-2015 sustainable development agenda are now moving into the cut and thrust of practical negotiation. As the process enters this more overtly political phase, there is a very real threat that the voice of powerful actors, especially those from
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HIC and Local Authorities Seeks WUF-7 Correction |
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By: HIC-UCLG-Mercociudades-FALP |
| 04 April 2014 |
Joint Declaration of
Habitat International Coalition (HIC),
the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of UCLG,[1] the Forum of Peripheral Local Authorities (FALP) and Mercociudades regarding the 7th World Urban Forum
4 April 2014
From 5 to 11 April 2014 will take place in Medellin (Colombia) the seventh edition
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HIC and Local Authorities Seek WUF-7 Correction |
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By: HIC-UCLG-Mercociudades-FALP |
| 04 April 2014 |
Joint Declaration of
Habitat International Coalition (HIC),
the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of UCLG,[1] the Forum of Peripheral Local Authorities (FALP) and Mercociudades regarding the 7th World Urban Forum
4 April 2014
From 5 to 11 April 2014 will take place in Medellin (Colombia) the seventh edition
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Congo: World Bank Approves Inga 3 Dam Loan |
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By: IRN |
| 20 March 2014 |
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA—Today, the World Bank Group`s Board of Directors approved a grant of US$73.1 million for the Inga 3 Dam on the Congo River – the biggest hydropower project the World Bank has ever funded. International Rivers denounces the decision as support for a risky mega-project that will not
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Ohio USA: Fracking and Quaking |
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By: Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress |
| 19 March 2014 |
Ohio has experienced a surge in earthquakes in recent years, an uptick that corresponds with an increase in fracking in the state, according to a new analysis.
The Columbus Dispatch looked at data from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and found that, between 1950 and 2009, Ohio saw an average
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Zim: Mugabe Evicts Villagers to Set up Game Park |
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By: Everson Mushava, News Day |
| 19 March 2014 |
Sources told NewsDay that the First Family also intends to build a university to be named after the Zanu PF leader.
Close to 900 families were yesterday ordered to vacate the area by armed police officers.
This follows a similar raid on Saturday where the police evicted a traditional healer Mary Kazunga
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Brazil: PepsiCo, No More Tolerance for Land Grab |
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By: Oxfam |
| 18 March 2014 |
When enough of us speak out, companies listen. Today PepsiCo proved this.
After nearly 6 months of campaigning, the world’s second largest food and drink company agreed to a zero tolerance policy on land grabs and for its bottlers to do the same.
Consumer power
“Consumer power just got a little bit stronger,”
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Muslim Women`s Access to Land & Property |
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By: GLTN & HIC-HLRN |
| 08 March 2014 |
With an estimated 2% of the land registered in the name of women globally, access to land for `the better half` of the world remains a challenge. Change requires shifting the mind set of women, men, communities, policy and law makers, land administrators, planners, researchers, civil society groups, traditional and
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Cyprus Votes to Sell off Assets |
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By: Al Jazeera |
| 04 March 2014 |
The Cypriot parliament has approved a roadmap for privatisations, averting a showdown with international lenders insisting on state sell-offs as part of a $13.77bn bailout package.
In a show of hands on Tuesday, 30 politicians in the 56-member parliament endorsed a guideline for asset sales, a day before a deadline for
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National Union of Algerian Farmers Hold 8th Mtg. |
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By: UNPA |
| 01 March 2014 |
ALGIERS—General Secretary of the National Union of Algerian Farmers (UNPA), Mohamed Alioui declared Saturday in Algiers that "peace and security recovery benefited the farmers after President Bouteflika helped end terrorism."
Speaking during the works of the 8th Congress of UNPA, attended by Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, and members of government, Alioui
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Nigeria: World Bank `Dragging its Feet` on Resettlement Package |
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By: Amnesty International |
| 21 February 2014 |
A year after bulldozers razed the homes of 9,000 people in a community meant to benefit from a World Bank funded project in Lagos, the state government and the World Bank are failing miserably to live up to their promise to adequately compensate and resettle them, Amnesty International said.
“Hundreds of
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Japan: Shadow of Olympics Evictions Looms Over Tokyo |
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By: Keiko Tanaka, translated by Isamu Yoneda, Global voice |
| 18 February 2014 |
While many people in Japan are happy with the country`s results of the Sochi Winter Olympics – notably, Ayumu Hirano, the youngest medal winner on the snowboard half pipe and Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan`s first Olympic gold in men`s figure skating, just to name a few – there are some who
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Afghanistan: Returnees Still Face Eviction Risk |
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By: Still at Risk: Security of tenure and the forced eviction of IDPs and refugee returnees in urban Afghanistan |
| 11 February 2014 |
The International Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) has issued a new report reviewing cases of actual and threatened evictions of IDPs and refugee returnees from informal settlements in and around all the major Afghan cities where the Norwegian Refugee Council has an established field presence. Its main message is the urgent
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