The Hungary Games: Abusing Refugees

How Hungary evades its obligations on migrants and refugees   The Hungarian government is building a fence on the border with Serbia to keep out the ever-increasing flow of refugees to Europe. But just look at a

Sami People’s Land Rights at Stake

Land and resource rights are key to Sami people’s self-determination, United Nations rights expert says  HEMAVAN / GENEVA—The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, today expressed concern at the land

10 Years on: The Myths of Katrina

Falsehoods about warnings, violence, and recovery persist. Here’s the truth.   Ten years after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent floods from the failed federal levees, out-of-town media and politicians are still getting some things wrong. Here are

HIC-HLRN and A.S.I.A. Report on Italy

Out of commitment to the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), HIC-HLRN and Associazione Inquilini e Abitante (A.S.I.A.) today submitted their parallel report to the Committee of Economic, Social

Veolia Dumps Jerusalem Rail

Turkey “Takes Israeli Gas over Egyptian”

Turkish energy expert Nusret Comert says Turkey will pay more for Israeli gas, and be a more reliable source of demand.   "As of now, exporting Israeli natural gas to Turkey is probably the main possibility for

German Hypocrisy over Greek Water

Greek activists are warning that the privatisation of state water companies would be a backward step for the country.   Under the terms of the bailout agreement (pdf) approved by the Greek parliament today, Greece has pledged to support an

Fractured Continuity: Habitat II to Habitat III

Wading through the knowledge products of the current Habitat process highlights a failure to account for previous commitments. HIC-HLRN’s Joseph Schechla critiques the process and content of Habitat III against the criteria forged at Habitat

Habitat II Baby, Habitat III Bathwater

The substantive debate toward the 2016 Habitat III Conference is warming up. The disappointment that states earlier expressed at PrepCom2 (Nairobi, April 2015) for slow progress in producing the draft material for the outcome document