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Berliners Vote to Evict Corporate Landlords |
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By: Alexander Vasudevan, The Guardian |
| 29 September 2021 |
Berlin’s vote to take properties from big landlords could be a watershed moment
The successful referendum to expropriate the city’s apartments from corporate landlords is a potential template for Europe
With coalition talks that could last months under way to form Germany’s next government, the reverberations of Sunday’s election will be felt for quite
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Aboriginals Reclaim World’s Oldest Rainforest |
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By: Ben Smee, The Guardian |
| 28 September 2021 |
The world’s oldest rainforest will join landmarks like Uluru and Kakadu, where First Nations are custodians of world heritage sites
The world heritage-listed national park is being handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people, who will manage it in partnership with the Queensland government.
Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will take formal
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EU Court Backs Citizens on Trade under Occupation |
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By: European Legal Support Center (ELSC) |
| 24 September 2021 |
Citizens are calling on the European Commission to obey international law and end trade with illegal settlements in territories under occupation - including Palestine and Western Sahara.
No one should profit from occupation.
The European Court of Justice annuls the Commission’s refusal to register a Citizens’ Initiative calling for the regulation of
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Salish and Kootenai Restore Land, Water Rights |
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By: Mark Armao, GRIST |
| 24 September 2021 |
A Montana Tribe Finalizes a Historic $1.9 Billion Settlement
It’s the largest sum ever awarded in an Indigenous water rights case.
After decades of negotiations, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) have finalized a $1.9 billion water rights settlement that resolves thousands of tribal claims tied to waterways throughout western Montana.
U.S. Secretary
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India must Halt Mass Eviction during COVID-19 |
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By: TRT world - Time of India |
| 24 September 2021 |
The Indian state has been a cauldron of ethnic tensions for decades and the latest round of forced expulsions of hundreds of Muslims is only making the matters worse.
ASSAM -- On September 24, dawn broke to an eerie silence in the riverine char villages of Dhalpur 1 and 3 deep
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UN Food Summit Will Only Feed Corporations |
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By: Sofía Monsalve, Geneva Solutions |
| 22 September 2021 |
Transnational agribusiness firms have captured the UN Food Systems Summit and have restricted the meeting`s agenda to solutions that will further inflate their profits instead of solving the global hunger crisis, says Sofia Monsalve, secretary general of the food rights organisation FIAN International.
When I visited my parents in Bogotá last month,
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New Study: Forced Eviction in Baidoa, Somalia |
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By: Norwegian Refugee Council |
| 16 September 2021 |
This study titled ‘I want my land. You have to go’ comprehensively explores why forced evictions in Baidoa continue to thrive; and then takes a deep-dive into the factors that are fuelling, promoting, and sustaining the eviction phenomenon to advance practical policy solutions to effectively address the problem at different
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Afghans Protest Taliban Evictions |
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By: Agence France Press |
| 15 September 2021 |
Hundreds March in Kandahar to Protest against Taliban Evictions
Residents of Zara Ferqa, a suburb made up of government housing and ramshackle huts, said they had been ordered to leave by the Taliban, but had nowhere else to go.
KANDAHAR—Hundreds of protesters from a neighbourhood populated by former Afghan army servicemen marched
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227 Land Defenders Murdered in a Year |
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By: Global Witness |
| 13 September 2021 |
227 land and environmental activists murdered in a single year, the worst figure on record
As the climate crisis intensifies, violence against defenders of the earth is escalating.
A report released today reveals that 227 land and environmental activists were murdered in 2020 for defending their land and the planet. That constitutes the highest
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India: Forced Eviction in 2020 |
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By: HLRN - India |
| 12 September 2021 |
Housing and Land Rights Network- India is pleased to announce the launch of a new report – Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic. The report reveals that during the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 2020 to July 2021, the Indian government demolished,
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India Evicted 21 People Every Hour during COVID |
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By: Rina Chandran - Thomson Reuters Foundation |
| 09 September 2021 |
More than 250,000 people were evicted across India during the coronavirus pandemic, and millions more are at risk of being uprooted as authorities eye projects for faster economic growth, housing rights campaigners warned on Thursday.
From March 2020 to July 2021, authorities demolished more than 43,000 homes and evicted about 21
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Egypt’s ‘Best Practice’ toward 2030 SDGs |
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By: World Bank |
| 07 September 2021 |
UN Lists Upper Egypt Local Development Program as a Best Practice to Achieving Results Towards 2030 SDGs
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The Upper Egypt Local Development Program is strengthening the capacity of local government to deliver quality infrastructure and services and improve the environment for private sector development and job creation in four governorates.
The
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South Asia, Rising Ocean Displaces Millions |
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By: hlrn |
| 05 September 2021 |
In South Asia, Rising Ocean Pushes out Those Living at the Shore
In the vast Sunderbans delta that spans eastern India and Bangladesh, coastal erosion due to rising sea levels has been slowly carving away chunks of its low-lying islands, forcing thousands of people to relocate, according to climate experts.
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Israel Demolishes al-`Araqib 192nd Time |
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By: The Palestine Chronicle |
| 04 September 2021 |
Israel Demolishes al-`Araqib Village for 192nd Time
Israeli authorities demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-`Araqib in the southern Negev for the 192nd time on Thursday. The Bedouin families of al-`Araqib rebuild the village every time Israeli authorities demolish it.
The village was first levelled in July 2010, and every time the
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Uganda: “Total” Eviction for Pipeline |
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By: Emily Jones, The McGill International Review |
| 30 August 2021 |
Evicted Development: Moving People for Pipelines
Fifteen years ago, UK company Tullow Oils began drilling in Western Uganda, discovering the country’s previously untapped oil reserves. Today, two other international oil giants are collaborating with East African governments in a slow, tactful land grab to take advantage of them. Construction of the
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India: War on the Urban Poor in Haryana |
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By: AICCTU |
| 24 August 2021 |
The urban poor of the Delhi-NCR region have been reeling under the disastrous impact of successive lockdowns and the fatal second wave of CoVID. The incessant spells of monsoon rain taking over the city’s roads and spaces have added to their woes. And now the Haryana government has dealt yet
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Zim: Evicted Zanu PF Supporters Stranded |
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By: Jairos Saunyama, Zimbabwe situation |
| 22 August 2021 |
About 200 families that were evicted from a farm on the outskirts of Marondera in June are still living in the open as the government is yet to fulfil its promise to resettle them.
The families, mostly Zanu PF supporters, were kicked out of Maganga Estates, which is owned by Hunyani
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The Afghani Refugee crisis far Beyond the Evacuation Plans |
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By: Sammy Westfall, Washington post |
| 20 August 2021 |
More than 240,000 Afghans have been internally displaced since the U.S. withdrawal began in May. Tens of thousands more have fled their home provinces in the past two weeks.
As Afghanistan’s neighbors, along with other countries in the region and in the West, brace for the possibility of a large-scale refugee
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Biden Admin. Hands Israel Stolen Land |
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By: Michael F. Brown, The Electronic Intidafa |
| 17 August 2021 |
Biden administration and media hand occupied land to Israel
The Biden administration appears to be intent on handing occupied territory to Israel, precisely as the Trump administration sought to do.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics … and then there is Shebaa Farms.
Recently, the US State Department and news media both
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From Neom to Kinshasa: 10 Megacities of the Future |
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By: James Langton, The National (UAE) |
| 16 August 2021 |
From Neom to Kinshasa: 10 megacities of the future
By the end of century, more than 85 million people will live in Lagos alone and the top three megacities in the world could be in Africa
Bigger is not necessarily better and that is certainly the case with cities.
The UN has predicted
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