Cleveland`s Plan to Destroy nearly 6,000 Homes
City is turning empty lots into parks, greenhouses, vineyards NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed in an effort to save neighborhoods from blight, crime and sinking
Published : 13 November 2014
Boston Finally Acts on Stranded Homeless
On a city lot beside the Southeast Expressway, somewhere between massive piles of rock salt and rows of garbage trucks, city officials have found a site to house hundreds of homeless people who have lived
Published : 12 November 2014
Two Words Scare the World Bank
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim spoke eloquently last month about the bank’s new commitment to end extreme poverty by 2030 and improve the plight of the poorest 40 percent in developing countries. In a speech
Published : 07 November 2014
India: Environment, Land-use Laws Threaten Human Rights
Recent changes made and proposed to India’s environment and land acquisition policies strike at the right of communities to be consulted on decisions affecting them, Amnesty International India said today. India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and
Published : 05 November 2014
The Right to the City: Cairo
Egypt’s capital city, Cairo, embodies one of the longest and most-dramatic transformations of any large urban center. Its current “transition,” following the 2011 popular uprising against a long-standing kleptocracy, suggests a well-developed and organized civil
Published : 03 November 2014
Canada Accused of Failing to Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses
WASHINGTON—The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country’s massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified here Tuesday before an international
Published : 31 October 2014
OECD Calls for Privatizing Tunisia’s Water
Overcoming the Challenges to Private Sector Participation A new report diagnoses of the OECD addresses the main governance and financing challenges to management of the water supply and wastewater sector of Tunisia, and provides ways
Published : 27 October 2014
The Right to the City: Jerusalem
HIC-HLRN has produced a new report from an ongoing study on the prospects of realizing the principles of the “right to the city” for specific cities in several regions. This report finds that applying the "right to
Published : 26 October 2014
SR`s Survey: Housing and Local Authorities
Responsibilities of sub-national governments with respect to the right to adequate housing Introduction In her first report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Ms Leilani Farha, outlines some of the priority themes for
Published : 23 October 2014
