Lebanon MP: “Israel Stealing Lebanon`s Oil for 7 Years”
BEIRUT—Israel has been dipping into Lebanon’s offshore oil and gas reserves for years, Hezbollah MP Nawwaf Musawi warned Sunday, days after Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri made a similar statement. “The Israeli enemy had started drilling for
Published : 14 December 2014
Australia Mine Destroys Ecosystem
MAULES CREEK, Australia—On a balmy Sunday in late November, the renowned Rugby Union Wallabies player David Pocock chained himself to mining equipment where he spent the next 10 hours with a handful of others to
Published : 13 December 2014
New OHCHR Report: Human Rights & Land
Access, use and control over land impacts a wide range of human rights issues including poverty reduction, access to an adequate standard of living, development projects and humanitarian interventions and conflict prevention. A new report
Published : 13 December 2014
US: Privatization of Apache Tribe Land
Former San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman Wendsler Nosie said he felt sick when he heard what legislators did last week. Members of Congress — including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — inserted into the National Defense Authorization
Published : 11 December 2014
New Report Scores USA “Failed” Homeless
WASHINGTON DC—Following the third examination of criminalization of homelessness by a UN human rights monitoring body this year, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty today issues its annual report card on the human right to housing, giving
Published : 10 December 2014
Ireland: Protest against Water Privatization
Mass march demands abolition of water fees, which are part of broader austerity push. "We can`t pay! We won`t pay!" was the call of tens of thousands who took to the streets of Dublin, Ireland on
Published : 10 December 2014
Rise of Poland`s Urban Movement
Poland`s recent local elections went according to the usual script: The ruling coalition of the Civic Platform and Polish People`s Party retained their control over major cities. But there was one political surprise in the
Published : 09 December 2014
US Congress Loots Indigenous Apache Lands
San Carlos Apache Leader Seeks Senate Defeat of Copper Mine on Sacred Land Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country 08 December 2014 The leader of the San Carlos Apache Tribe is asking the Senate not to vote on the
Published : 08 December 2014
Mexican Right-to-water Ruling
On Wednesday, 26 November, the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico issued its judgment in Lidia Velazquez Reynoso (Case No. 49/2014), determining that the constitutional and international obligations for the human right to water requires
Published : 08 December 2014
