New Report from HLRN`s Violation Database
For your Habitat October reading, please find here HIC-HLRN’s World Habitat Day 2014 report: Bearing Witness to Forced Evictions: Habitat II’s Broken Promise, Habitat III’s Missing Link. This year, the HLRN report from its Violation
Published : 06 October 2014
Haj 2014: Mecca’s Transformation
For a slide show of the changes to the City of Mecca since the 1950s, and prospects for future transformation, see Haj 2014: How Mecca has changed over the years
Published : 04 October 2014
The State of Land Grabs in Africa
What’s the Matter with the Global Financial System? As torrential water cannons, stones, and tear gas canisters pounded the thousands of protestors gathered outside, the European Central Bank managers met in the sumptuous Museo di Capodimonte
Published : 03 October 2014
O, Canada: Only State to “Veto” Indigenous Rights
Prime Minister Stephen Harper listens to speeches at the Canada-European Union Summit in Toronto on 26 Sept. Days before, the prime minister was in New York City attending UN climate summit events. | CP Canada singled
Published : 02 October 2014
South Africa: Shack Dwellers Leader Murdered
Between half past six and seven last night, an armed man burst into Thuli Ndlovu’s home in KwaNdengezi, in Kwa-Zulu Natal, while she was watching TV. He shot her seven times and she died on
Published : 30 September 2014
USA: Detroit Foreclosures Could Displace 20K
On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes made a landmark decision to authorize continued water shutoffs for unpaid water bills, leaving thousands of Detroiters without access to water. At the same time, and less reported
Published : 30 September 2014
World Bank Self-indictment in Kenya Forest
A leaked copy of a World Bank investigation seen by the Guardian has accused the bank of failing to protect the rights of one of Kenya’s last groups of forest people, who are being evicted
Published : 29 September 2014
Kenya: Implementing 2010 Endorois Ruling
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) welcomes the formation by the Government of Kenya of a new task force dedicated to implementation of the 2010 African Commission ruling which recognised the Endorois` rights over their ancestral
Published : 29 September 2014
China`s Brutal Urbanization (dossier)
China already has built a reputation for dispossessing its farming rural population and forcing them into cities. Over the last two decades of the previous century, China urbanized some 40 million people in this way.[1] This
Published : 28 September 2014
