2,500 Native Americans Block Oil Pipeline
2,500 Native Americans Successfully Block Oil Pipeline Construction — State of Emergency Declared Last week, a few dozen Native Americans showed up to protest the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile-long pipeline that would cross right through their sacred
Published : 23 August 2016
Boston USA: Campaign Progress to Save Public Housing
Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT) spearheads campaign for City Vouchers to save our homes! In response to Boston’s growing housing and homelessness crisis, MAHT is spearheading a broad coalition of housing and community groups to propose
Published : 22 August 2016
Al-Mahdi Pleads Guilty for Timbuktu Ruin
Al-Mahdi pleads guilty and apologizes for destruction in Mali’s Timbuktu The International Criminal Court (ICC) trial of Ahmad al-Mahdi for attacks on religious and historical structures during the 2012 occupation of Timbuktu opened today in
Published : 22 August 2016
World’s Indigenous People and Profit Enterprise
(UR) Southeast Asia — August 9th, 2016 marked the 12th International Day of the World’s Indigenous People — a day pronounced by the U.N. to promote the rights of the indigenous peoples of the world, while also celebrating their
Published : 22 August 2016
Native Americans Blocked Oil Pipeline Construction
The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline,
Published : 21 August 2016
Habitat III: UN-Habitat Future Debated
UN-Cities? Rumoured proposal gains steam SURABAYA, Indonesia—The perennial tug-of-war between rich and developing countries at the United Nations has found another flashpoint: the debate over the future of UN-Habitat. The Nairobi-based agency deals with housing as
Published : 18 August 2016
Rio’s Indigenous Trapped in Social Housing
In Estácio, a centrally located neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, Block 15 of the Zé Keti social housing complex, part of the Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) program, has been the home of some of the city’s remainingindigenous families
Published : 15 August 2016
Uganda: Amongi Reacts to Claims on Land Grabbing
Former FDC presidential candidate Kizza Besigye last week launched a scathing attack on recently-announced government plans for compulsory land acquisitions, telling journalists this was a ploy to steal people`s land. But as JONATHAN KAMOGA reports,
Published : 08 August 2016
Kenya: Save School from Evictor
The governance of land, the most lucrative asset in Kenya, has become an impediment to the economic, political, and social development of Kenya and Kenyans. Large scale corruption in land governance is highlighted daily, from
Published : 08 August 2016
