Colombia: Land-restitution Efforts Fail Displaced Millions
Killings, threats of violence, and flawed legislation are preventing millions of Colombians from reclaiming stolen land, a report has found — further imperiling the fragile peace process aimed at ending the world`s longest running civil
Published : 27 November 2014
Africa’s Great ‘Water Grab’
The banks of the Niger river, in southern Mali, have been flooded by a steady stream of foreigners. Coveted by foreign investors eager to snap up large tracts of fertile farmland, the river basin has
Published : 24 November 2014
Tanzania Maasai Prefer Death to Eviction
It`s a familiar story, starring African land and outsized corporate appetites. It begins in 1992, when the Tanzanian government licensed Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC)—owned by a senior official of the United Arab Emirates government—to organise
Published : 23 November 2014
Boston (USA): Scholars Call Homeless Emergency
Statement of MIT/RLS Global Convergence on Evictions and Displacement Conference Participants to State and City Leaders Regarding the Long Island Shelter Crisis We, the undersigned, practitioners and researchers in the fields of housing and land rights
Published : 22 November 2014
Israel Resumes Punitive House Demolitions
Contentious punitive tactic resumed with razing of building housing family of Palestinian man blamed for October attack. Israel has demolished the home of a Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem who it says carried out a
Published : 20 November 2014
Saudi Arabia Bulldozes Its Heritage
For centuries, the Kaaba, the black cube in the center of Mecca, Saudi Arabia that is Islam`s holiest point, has been encircled by arched porticos erected some three centuries ago by the Ottomans, above dozens
Published : 14 November 2014
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
