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Who Rules Cairo Street? The Residents Who Build It |
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By: Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times |
| 26 May 2013 |
After the revolution two years ago, working-class residents of that vast informal neighborhood, tired of having no direct access to the 45-mile-long Ring Road, took matters into their own hands. In the absence of functioning government, they built ramps from dirt, sand and trash. Then they invited the police to
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Han Farmers Beat Mongolian Herders for Denying Leases |
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By: Parameswaran Ponnudurai, Radio Free Asia |
| 09 May 2013 |
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Sri Lanka: Land Grabs in North andEast |
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By: M. A. Sumanthiran, Colombo Telegraph |
| 02 May 2013 |
Last week saw a hugely dangerous move by the government. Section 2 notices under the Land Acquisition Act were pasted on trees in Valikamam North in the Jaffna Peninsula indicating that an extent of approximately 6,400 acres of private lands belonging to several thousand Tamil people would be acquired for
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Ethiopia: New Amhara People Evicted from the South |
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By: ESAT News |
| 30 April 2013 |
Less than a week since the new Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalgn warned that there would not be any kind of forced eviction during his Parliamentary session, over 90 families of the Amhara ethnic origin have been evicted from the Bench Maji Zone, Gura Farda Woreda of Southern Ethiopia.
The residents
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France: Woman (72) Hangs after Eviction Threats |
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By: UPI |
| 26 April 2013 |
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Land Forum IV Concludes with New Commitments |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 28 March 2013 |
The Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights Network organized its 4th Land Forum for the Middle East/North Africa, in Tunis, 26–28 March 2013, under the title: “From Broken Promises to People’s Solutions.”
This Land Forum convened experts and social movement activists to share their timely struggles over land and natural
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Ethiopia: World Bank told to Investigate links to `Villagisation` Project |
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By: William Lloyd George, the Guardian |
| 19 March 2013 |
Bank`s accountability panel says complaints by Ethiopians of forced evictions in Gambella should be looked into.
An independent panel has called for an investigation into a World Bank-funded project in Ethiopia following accusations from refugees that the bank is funding a programme that forced people off their land.
In a report, seen
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Angola: Thousands Evicted in Luanda’s Cacuaco District |
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By: Leslie Lefkow, Human Rights Watch |
| 26 February 2013 |
It adds insult to injury to first evict people with brute force, with no warning or time to prepare, and then imprison them when they are left homeless and destitute. The government should promptly ensure that the people evicted from Maiombe have access to shelter and are compensated for the
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Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement & Aid |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 08 February 2013 |
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Civil Society on New Global Development Priorities |
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By: HIC-HLRN |
| 01 February 2013 |
Upon expiration of the current Millennium Development Goals in 2015, the new “sustainable development goals” to be set at the international level were the subject of recent web-based consultations with global civil society conducted by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS). The consultation, which took place in December 2012 and
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Bulgaria: Protected Area Construction Scandal |
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By: Sofia News Agency |
| 02 January 2013 |
A close friend of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, has been linked to the scandal that flared in Bulgaria just hours before the arrival of the New Year 2013, over reports illegal construction was going on in a protected coastal area.
The owner of the TVB company, Todor
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South Africa: Lenasia - the Haunting Abandonment of Humanity |
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By: BY Pierre de vos, All Africa.com |
| 21 November 2012 |
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Nepal: Thapathali Squatters on Strike |
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By: nepalnews.com |
| 06 July 2012 |
KATHMANDU—Normal life has been affected in Lalitpur district due to a Lalitpur bandh called by locals to protest the government’s plan to resettle squatters evicted from encroached land in the Thapathali area at Sundarighat, Balkhu.
Shops and businesses in the main market center including factories, industries, and academic institutions remain closed
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Predatory Lender Wells Fargo Bank Forced to Pay |
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By: The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times |
| 15 June 2012 |
Wells Fargo Bank: A Predatory Lender Pays up
The Baltimore Sun
15 July 2012
Baltimore`s effort to recover millions of dollars in lost revenue stemming from the wave of home foreclosures that followed the collapse of the housing market in 2007 was vindicated Thursday when Wells Fargo Bank, the nation`s largest mortgage lender,
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African Land Grabs not a Cure to Arab Food Concerns |
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By: Dina Zayed, Reuters |
| 07 April 2010 |
As desertification dries up farmland across the Arab world, the region`s governments cannot remedy concerns about food security solely by looking to Africa for agricultural production, a regional expert said.
Desertification threatens 20 percent of the already dry Middle East and North Africa, pushing many states to invest in African farmland
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Vancouver BC: Habitat II Debates |
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By: Frances Bula, Vancouver Sun |
| 20 June 2006 |
The United Nations` third World Urban Forum opened in Vancouver Monday with native dancing and drumming, songs from Canadian and Kenyan children, and some sharply differing ideas about how to solve the planet`s housing problems.
U.S. Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson said home ownership is the solution.
"Home ownership will make our cities
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Palestine, Tibet Reps Draft Peace Charter |
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By: Tibet Office (Paris) |
| 19 August 2005 |
Paris—Lourdes, one of the world’s most prominent Christian pilgrimage sites, hosted the Peace Day on 14 August. In tow with UNESCO`s initiative of Peace Manifesto and the opening of the Culture of Peace Decade, the city has been organising events aimed at promoting peace among the nations and peoples since
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Land. That’s What Habitat Was About |
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By: Moira Farrow, The Vancouver Sun |
| 23 June 1976 |
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