Uganda: Reject State-organised Land Grabbing
Grabbing with Impunity A significant portion of my 2016 presidential campaign underscored the need for immediate actions to halt the land-grabbing scourge. Land grabbing, here refers to large-scale land acquisitions, mainly, by foreign agribusiness invest ors,
Published : 08 November 2016
Myanmar: Kayin Farmers Fighting Land Grabs
Kayin State villagers are losing their land and are routinely persecuted through threats, arson and arbitrary arrest if they attempt to fight the unlawful seizures, according to a report released by an international rights group
Published : 04 November 2016
Stop European Money Fueling Land Grabs
Around the world, companies and speculators are engaged in a frantic rush for land. Millions of hectares are being bought up, citizens violently turfed off their land and critical ecosystems irrevocably damaged, in order to
Published : 04 November 2016
USA: Homeless Camps Offering Democracy Lesson
Overlooked in the elections, Portland’s homeless are organising their own camps on their own terms, but fear evictions. PORTLAND, Oregon—When Marge Pettitt`s seven-year-old daughter broke down in tears in a homeless shelter in 2009, she made
Published : 04 November 2016
Indigenous Rights Key to Saving Forests
Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds. Leaving forests in communal hands cuts carbon emissions from deforestation, helps communities and offers long-term economic benefits: “Everyone wins.” RIO DE JANEIRO—The world’s indigenous communities
Published : 02 November 2016
EU Declares Israel Boycott Protected as Free Speech
Palestinians hail Federica Mogherini’s statement, but she stresses that the union ‘rejects the BDS campaign’s attempts to isolate Israel’. the European Union’s foreign policy chief recently affirmed the right of EU citizens to boycott Israel, citing
Published : 31 October 2016
China Buying up Australia’s Land
The land at stake is in Australia, but the focus is on China. SYDNEY—Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate, is very rich—and very Australian. Her ancestors immigrated to the country’s hardscrabble western reaches in the 1830s. A mountain
Published : 31 October 2016
Our Precious Urban Lives
SYDNEY, Australia—Down the hill from my house, there is an old building with a saw-toothed roof that once warehoused trams, back when the bay was heavy with industrial waste and working-class people could afford to
Published : 29 October 2016
USA: Militant Land Grabbers Found “Not Guilty”
Bundy brothers found not guilty of conspiracy in Oregon militia standoff. High-profile trial over the armed occupation of the Malheur wildlife refuge sparked a national debate about the rights of ranchers in the American west. PORTLAND,
Published : 28 October 2016
