UN Expert: Food Security Must Trump Trade Rules
A United Nations independent rights expert called today for policy changes that will allow developing countries the freedom to use their reserves to help secure the right to food without the threat of sanctions under
Published : 05 December 2013
New On-line Displacement Research Platform
CAMBRIDGE MA—MIT’s Displacement Research & Action Network (“The Network”) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website http://displacement.mit.edu. The site is a collaboration of academics from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Published : 05 December 2013
CSOs to UN: Bind TNCs to Human Rights
BANGKOK—Over one hundred civil society organizations and social movements have publicly joined the growing call for States to begin taking steps toward establishing a binding international treaty to deal with corporate human rights abuses. The
Published : 04 December 2013
Africa`s Vanishing Forests
You see that coconut tree?” said Daniel Krakue, gesturing out beyond the windshield. “That used to be a village.” It wasn’t hard to see the tree. Apart from a skinny papaya trunk, it was the
Published : 04 December 2013
Kenya: The Hidden Crisis in Urban Slums
NAIROBI, 4 December 2013 (IRIN) - In Mathare, a sprawling slum in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, children in tattered clothes play with raw waste flowing from a burst sewage pipe. In the alley, crowded with tin-and-wood
Published : 04 December 2013
Really Progress on UN Development Goals?
The UN report on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals seems so at odds with realities on the ground, says David Satterthwaite. The United Nations claims great progress towards most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Published : 03 December 2013
Yemen: Fresh Land Mines
Geneva—Yemen should investigate the allegations that its Republican Guard forces laid thousands of antipersonnel landmines in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today at the opening of an annual meeting of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.
Published : 02 December 2013
Zimbabwe: Time to Rebuild Land Administration
In this 10th of 12 articles I focus on the need to rebuild the land use planning system and how this how this will aid land administration. I have argued throughout the series of articles
Published : 01 December 2013
Brazil: Living Rough in a Big City
Sao Paulo`s Housing Department estimates this city of more than 11 million people is short of adequate homes for at least 230,000 families. As a result, thousands of people are living in abandoned buildings downtown
Published : 29 November 2013
