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Iraq: Kurds Resist U.S. Oil Co. Land Confiscation |
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By: Christian Peacemaker Team |
| 20 August 2013 |
[Note: For security reasons, the team is withholding names of the villages and the oil company for the time being. More details will follow in the coming weeks.]
A couple weeks ago, our team learned of the Kurdish villagers about three hours away from Suleimaniya protesting against a U.S.-based oil company
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USA: Govt. Aids Big Oil Land Grab |
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By: Real Farmacy.com |
| 20 August 2013 |
In the quest for profits, nothing stands in the way of corporatocracy, not even your own private land. Federal and state governments have revised laws so that corporations can now use “eminent domain” to install hydraulic fracturing (fracking) infrastructure on private property, with or without landowner consent.
Bob Swartz was informed
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India: 40 Houses in Slum Demolished |
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By: Express News Service |
| 19 August 2013 |
Acting on the High Court order, the Revenue Department officials demolished 40 houses and tin sheds at Ganapathi Nagar slum in Gottigere on Tuesday.
Speaking to Express, a member of the Special Task Force, Revenue Department, said, “In 2007, the state government auctioned 8 acres and 36 guntas in Bangalore South.
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Colombia: Farmers is Killed for their Land |
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By: By Ellie Mae O`Hagan, Vice.com |
| 14 August 2013 |
On a hot, dusty morning in July, I found myself rattling down a road in the beautiful Colombian countryside. I was there as part of a delegation with the international NGO, Justice for Colombia, crashing through virtually unusable roads, over gaping potholes and dangerously rusted bridges – testament to the
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Brazil: Vila Autódromo Avoids Eviction |
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By: Matthew Elliott, The Rio Times |
| 13 August 2013 |
RIO DE JANEIRO—The campaign against forced evictions in Rio in the lead-up to the city’s mega-events celebrated a victory as the favela community of Vila Autódromo, adjacent to the Olympic Park site, secured its permanence after years of struggle. The outcome guarantees potentially displaced residents the choice between remaining within
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Nigeria: Devastating Wave of Forced Evictions |
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By: Amnesty International |
| 12 August 2013 |
New evidence from satellite images reveals the true extent of a forced eviction in Badia East, Lagos – one of Africa’s two megacities. The pictures, taken before and after demolitions carried out by the Lagos state government on 23 February 2013, clearly show that a densely populated area containing concrete
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India: Chakma Villagers Evicted |
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By: Seven Sister website |
| 12 August 2013 |
The narrator of the story (identity withheld on request and due to security reasons)was among hundreds of people, belonging to the minority Chakma tribe who have been forcefully evicted in month of June and rendered homeless and, now faces an uncertain future in their own state. In this podcast he
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The Great Southeast Asian Land Grab |
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By: John Cherry, the diplomat.com |
| 08 August 2013 |
Conflict over land tenure in Southeast Asia’s rural areas has emerged as a key issue for the region. To achieve goals such as economic development and poverty reduction in rural areas, governments in the region have pursued policies to attract investment from large corporate entities both domestically and internationally, to
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Sri Lanka Army Condemned for Killing Protesters |
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By: AFP |
| 07 August 2013 |
Christian priests and nuns joined a candle-light vigil in the capital to protest against the military action [AFP]
The Roman Catholic Church has accused the Sri Lankan army of shooting unarmed protesters and desecrating a church during demonstrations against water contamination.
In an unusually strongly worded statement on Wednesday, the Archbishop of
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Land Rights Activists Assassinated in Mexico |
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By: Associated Press |
| 06 August 2013 |
ACAPULCO, Mexico—Two leftist activists were found shot to death on Mexico`s southern Pacific coast and a third is missing, a local leader said Tuesday.
The two men were found with their hands bound and gunshot wounds to their heads Monday near Coyuca de Benitez, a town west of Acapulco.
The Emiliano Zapata
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Burma: Ethnic Armed Groups Confiscate Land |
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By: HURFOM |
| 20 July 2013 |
HURFOM--In recent months Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has been tracking various cases of land confiscation, some of which took place years ago but have only now come to light. So far, published documentation has focussed on confiscations perpetrated by the Burmese military, local authorities and private companies working
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Chicago: Reclaiming Homes, Rights for Homeless |
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By: Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune |
| 15 July 2013 |
Since 2010, the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign has taken over nearly 30 abandoned South and West Side residences, rehabbed them and moved in homeless families.
Willie "J.R" Fleming, a longtime housing rights activist and co-founder of the campaign, said the group can do this because of an exemption in the state criminal
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Israel Still Justifies Naqab Arabs` Forced Eviction |
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By: Arab HRA |
| 27 June 2013 |
The Prawer Plan relays on a unjust assumption that the ownership claims of the Arab Bedouins on their land in the Negev are not legitimate since they are not listed in the Land Registry books. During the British Mandate period, when landholders in the north and center of the country
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ETO Consortium 6th Conference |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 26 June 2013 |
Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Consortium Meets Again
The 6th conference of the Extraterritorial (ETO) Consortium took place as a special event of the Vienna+20 Action Week on Human Rights in Vienna, on 25 and 26 June 2013. This parallel event was made possible by the presence of a large portion of ETO
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Istanbulites to IOC: “Don’t Select Our City” |
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By: Urban Movements Istanbul / HIC and People’s Houses |
| 21 June 2013 |
Esteemed members of the IOC;
This is a call from two human rights organizations, Urban Movements Istanbul / HIC (Habitat International Coalition) and People’s Houses on behalf the citizens of Istanbul from all ages, social and political backgrounds, associations, ideologies and beliefs.
From 28 May to 15 June, Istanbulites had been attacked
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Cuba: World’s Oddest Property Market |
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By: John Arlidge, Financial Times |
| 18 June 2013 |
Cuba, home of the world’s oddest property market, is finally allowing its people to buy and sell homes but property lawyers and agents are still illegal
Havana—It’s only 9am but it’s already 33C on the Malecón, Havana’s corniche, and my brain feels like a conch fritter. I’ve come to meet a
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Egypt under CESCR Review |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 13 June 2013 |
The Habitat International Coalition and affiliate civil society organizations have submitted an analytical report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) for its current review of the state party: Egypt. The collective report focuses especially on the implementation of the human right to adequate housing, as enshrined
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Brazil: 1-Yr World Cup Countdown, 1,000s Face Eviction |
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By: Matisse Bustos Hawkes, WITNESS |
| 12 June 2013 |
Today, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and FIFA President Sepp Blatter will officially mark the one-year countdown to the opening of the 2014 World Cup. Meanwhile, thousands of Brazil’s residents struggle to rebuild their lives after being forcibly removed from their homes to prepare for the multi-billion dollar sports event. Thousands
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Sri Lanka:Protests against Demolishing Women Homes |
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By: D.B.S.Jeyaraj.com |
| 12 June 2013 |
Tension prevailed in the Galle suburb of Karapitiya on Wednesday June 12th 2013 when Muslim women protesting the intended demolition of their homes by the Urban Development Authority(UDA)demonstrated in front of bulldozers and succeeded temporarily in prevented their dwellings being wrecked.
The dramatic incident where around 25 Muslim women bravely sat
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Haiti: UN "Gravely Concerned" at Families` Eviction |
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By: UN News Centre |
| 10 June 2013 |
10 June 2013 – Following the razing of a temporary camp sight in Haiti, a senior United Nations official today expressed concern about ongoing illegal forced evictions and human rights abuses of families displaced by the 2010 earthquake.
“On June 5, the United Nations was informed that 120 to 150 families
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