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Afghanistan: 270,000 Newly Displaced |
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By: UNHCR |
| 13 August 2021 |
Afghanistan: 270,000 newly displaced this year, warns UNHCR
The worsening security situation across Afghanistan in the wake of foreign troop withdrawal and Taliban advances, has forced an estimated 270,000 from their homes since January, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday, bringing the total internally displaced to more than 3.5 million.
The
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Remembering Colonialism’s 500 Years |
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By: David Keys, The Independent |
| 13 August 2021 |
Forgotten Anniversary: The Birth of Western Imperialism
Forgotten by most of the world, this month marks the 500th anniversary of one of human history’s most terrible and tragic events – the first large-scale European military conquest in mainland America.
Until then, major European (at that time, exclusively Spanish) military campaigns in the
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IPCC: Dire Warning to Humanity |
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By: Andrea Januta, Reuters |
| 10 August 2021 |
Key Takeaways from the U.N. Climate Panel`s Report
The U.N. climate panel has released its most comprehensive assessment of climate change yet. Here are some of the report`s main conclusions:
Humans Are to Blame - Full Stop
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used its strongest terms yet to assert that humans are causing climate
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USA: Eviction Ban Confusion |
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By: Hamza Shaban, Abha Bhattarai and Marissa J. Lang, The Washington Post |
| 05 August 2021 |
Last-minute eviction ban extension fuels confusion and is too late for some
The CDC says the new ban covers 80 percent of counties experiencing high or substantial community spread. But evictions can continue in nearby counties experiencing ‘moderate’ spread.
A last-minute extension of a moratorium barring evictions for covid-struck counties is injecting
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USA: New Eviction Ban till October |
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By: Barbara Sprunt, NPR |
| 03 August 2021 |
The Biden Administration Issues a New Eviction Moratorium after a Federal Ban Lapsed
Days after a national eviction moratorium expired, the Biden administration on Tuesday issued a new, more limited freeze that remains in effect through 3 October.
Like the previous order, the two-month moratorium issued Tuesday comes from the Centers for Disease Control and
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CSOs: UN Food Systems Pre-Summit Fails |
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By: CSM |
| 02 August 2021 |
Thousands of people gather at counter-mobilization to reiterate “We need food systems that empower people, not companies”
UN Food Systems Pre-Summit falls short on climate, hunger crisis, COVID, and food systems transformation, say counter-mobilization participants, which totalled almost 9,000 people.
ROME—Between 25 and 28 July 2021, some 9,000 people participated in a
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Port Sudan in a Geopolitical Scramble |
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By: Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed, Sudan blog |
| 31 July 2021 |
Port Sudan caught in the international race to control the Red Sea region
The whole world is wrangling for control over the Red Sea region. The United Arab Emirates are playing all of their cards to secure control over the trade routes. And while Sudan is increasingly turning to Europe for
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Paraguay Indigenous Community Evicted in Land Dispute |
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By: Gary Miller, Insider Voice |
| 30 July 2021 |
Asuncion, Paraguay – Marta Díaz sits among a settlement of makeshift tents made of plastic sheeting in a central plaza in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, a few meters from the National Congress building. A brightly painted scene hangs nearby depicting burning wooden rural houses as a group of incredulous people
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USA: Nez Perce Come Home after 100 Years |
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By: Dianne Lugo, Salem Statesman Journal |
| 29 July 2021 |
`Homecoming`: 100 years after forceful removal, Nez Perce people celebrate reclaimed land
JOSEPH, Oregon (OR)—Vice-Chairman Shannon Wheeler has been dreaming about this day for years.
On Thursday, more than 150 Nez Perce (Niimiipuu) people returned and blessed part of their homeland, a hundred years after the U.S Army drove them from the
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Olympic Displacement and Gentrification |
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By: Michael McDougall and MacIntosh Ross, Washington post |
| 29 July 2021 |
Displacement and Gentrification for Preparing the Olympic Games
Unfolding under a State of Emergency, after a year’s pandemic-related postponement, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are a Games like no other. Yet, when it comes to displacing the residents of host cities, these Olympics are very much business as usual. In total, 300
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Water Occupation in Palestine |
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By: RAMA SABANEKH |
| 25 July 2021 |
The talk discusses water’s centrality in Zionist thought and how it affects the occupation’s forms in terms of borders and geographical space. Based on historical correspondence and negotiations that formed the occupation’s identity and refined its policies later, the research argues that it is impossible to understand the form of
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Kenya Supreme Court Rules on Housing Rights |
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By: Jill Cottrell Ghai |
| 24 July 2021 |
Supreme Court finally gets to grips with socio-economic rights under Constitution
Two cases involving the right to housing have been decided in that court this year
Summary:
• The Supreme Court has heard few early cases about human rights such as Muruatetu on the mandatory death penalty for murder (involving the right to
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MGoS: "HLPF 2021 Failed!" |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 23 July 2021 |
Major Groups and Other Stakeholders (MGoS) Coordination Mechanism Statement on the 2021 Ministerial Declaration
United Nations High Level Political Forum Fails to Respond to the Call of Peoples in Times of Crises! Its Ministerial Declaration Does Not Rise to the Occasion for Bold and Transformative Action
The United Nations High Level Political
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State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report, 2021 |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 23 July 2021 |
When the first cases of COVID-19 made headlines a year and a half ago, few would have imagined the magnitude the pandemic would reach and the disastrous outcomes that would follow. What started as a health crisis, quickly turned into a livelihood and food crisis. Millions of people have lost
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Brazil: Law Threatens Indigenous Land Rights |
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By: Luiza Paiva, Global Witness |
| 20 July 2021 |
The Brazilian law threatening Indigenous land rights
In Brazil, Indigenous Peoples are at the centre of a dispute threatening their land and human rights, as well as the fight to save our planet. A series of anti-indigenous bills have been proposed in the Brazilian Congress that pose huge risks to the
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Israel’s JNF Secret Ops to Get Palestinian Land |
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By: Hagar Shezad, Haaretz |
| 15 July 2021 |
Israel Recruited the Jewish National Fund to Secretly Buy Palestinian Land for Settlers
Haaretz reveals details of a series of deals carried out by Himanuta, a Jewish National Fund subsidiary, in the West Bank, one of which involved the Defense Ministry. The Bakri house in Hebron, for example, was bought for
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UN Unveils Plan to Halt Biodiversity Loss |
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By: edie newsroom |
| 12 July 2021 |
`Urgent policy action needed`: UN unveils draft Paris-style plan to halt biodiversity loss
Eliminating all plastic pollution and ending $500bn of annual government subsidies that harm nature are among the targets in a UN draft plan for averting Earth`s sixth mass extinction.
The draft plan has been released today (12 July) by the UN Convention
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UN Unveils Plan to Halt Biodiversity Loss |
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By: edie newsroom |
| 12 July 2021 |
Eliminating all plastic pollution and ending $500bn of annual government subsidies that harm nature are among the targets in a UN draft plan for averting Earth`s sixth mass extinction.
The draft plan has been released today (12 July) by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), following pre-talks for the 15th Biodiversity COP in Kunming,
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Palestine: Urgent Appeal to Release Shatha Odeh |
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By: Submitted by Odeh and Abu Fannouneh Families |
| 11 July 2021 |
Urgent Appeal for the Release of Ms. Shatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh, Director of the Health Work Committees (HWC)
For the attention of: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Michele Bachelet Jeria
1. Introduction
Ms. Shatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh (Palestinian I.D. 937893063), a 60-year-old mother of three, was subject to Israel
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Romania: Sign-on to Halt Evictions |
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By: |
| 07 July 2021 |
Appeal to the Romanian State Authorities
and International Organizations:
Increased Risk of Eviction in Pata Rât of Cluj-Napoca!
The current situation
More than 10 years have passed since the eviction of 76 Roma families from Coastei Street in Cluj-Napoca and their forced relocation near the city`s waste dump in Pata Rât. The children of
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