Spain: Austerity Driving Poverty, Growing Inequality
As Spain faces a major UN review of its human rights record, a new factsheet by CESR illustrates how four years of austerity have driven rising poverty, deepening inequality and a serious deterioration in a
Published : 16 January 2015
Palm Oil Risk to Africa
Forest regions and local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers looking for new agricultural land are welcomed by African governments Palm oil has long been produced in Africa on small-scale, diversified plantations. A report on
Published : 15 January 2015
Zimbabwe: Court Stops Eviction by First Lady
HARARE—High Court judge Erica Ndewere has granted a provisional order to stop the evictions of Mazowe residents at Manzou Farm following an application by six people who are part of the affected families. The six are
Published : 13 January 2015
India’s Environmental-reform Report Criticized
On 29 August 2014, the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change of the Government of India (hereinafter referred to as MoEF & CC) set up a High Level Committee headed by former Union Cabinet
Published : 09 January 2015
Rise and Fall of World’s Poorest Nations
UNITED NATIONS—The world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)—a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971, but which the World Bank refused to recognise—have long been described as “poorest of the
Published : 07 January 2015
USA: 1 in 7 Detroiters Face Eviction
One in seven Detroit residents is threatened with eviction due to tax foreclosure in 2015, according to data compiled by Loveland Technologies. Last fall, Michigan’s Wayne County, which includes the city of Detroit, served foreclosure
Published : 07 January 2015
San Francisco Evictions: Tenants’ 2015 Agenda for 2015
San Francisco—Ellis Act evictions are often the most dramatic and destructive forms of evictions because they displace all the tenants in a building. As discussed yesterday, Ellis Act evictions surged in 2012–2013 and then declined
Published : 06 January 2015
New York City: Mayor de Blasio’s Housing Gamble
Here’s the paradox of affordable housing in New York City: The red-hot markets of gentrifying neighborhoods are both decried as the problem, because they displace existing tenants, and hailed as the solution, because of their
Published : 05 January 2015
Turkey: Privatization Threats Gümüşdere People
Gümüşdere is one of the rare villages in Istanbul where people are still engaged in agricultural activities. Nearly 300 families live in the village where they first settled in the 1920s in the exchange of populations.
Published : 27 December 2014
