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
2004 Tsunami Remembered
Memorial services are taking place across littoral Asia and East Africa, and elsewhere, for the 220,000 people killed after underwater earthquake set off massive tsunami across Indian Ocean. HIC-HLRN pauses to memorialize the victims and
Published : 26 December 2014
USA: Omaha Tribal Land, Sovereignty Affirmed
In the two century “paper history” (1815–2014) imposed by the U.S. Government through Treaty, legislative law, case law and administrative codes upon the sovereign Omaha Nation—an Indigenous people of the Americas—the Omaha have endured the
Published : 26 December 2014
Israel Approves 380 New East Jerusalem Settler Homes
Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of 380 new settler homes in two areas of annexed east Jerusalem, a local official said. "The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes
Published : 25 December 2014
Libya: ≥120K Displaced in Fighting
GENEVA / TRIPOLI—Fighting in recent months between armed groups in western and eastern Libya, as well as in the south, has resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths, mass displacement and acute humanitarian conditions for those
Published : 23 December 2014
Commercialization of Farming by Expropriating Lands
Access to clean water and electricity are accepted as the sine qua non of modernity. Yet a sizable portion of the people of Ethiopia has no immediate access to both. Lack of clean water and
Published : 21 December 2014
UNGA: Israel to Pay Lebanon for Jiyyah Attack
The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution asking Israel to pay Lebanon more than $850m in damages for an oil spill caused by an Israeli air force attack in its war against Hezbollah in
Published : 20 December 2014
