Press Release: Senator Ratna Omidvar applauds the Canadian Government for seizing the assets of a sanctioned Russian Oligarch and using these assets to help Ukrainian war victims OTTAWA—Senator Omidvar is very pleased to see that the
Published : 19 December 2022Concern Over New Rule On Land Lease In Jammu And Kashmir Opposition parties have strongly reacted to the administration`s decision to bring the new law into effect. They say the move is aimed at giving the
Published : 16 December 2022Broken Promises: Relocation Sites for Maasai Facing Evictions Remain Critically Flawed with Risk of Conflict Escalating Field research in Msomera—the site picked by the Tanzanian government to relocate Indigenous residents who face evictions from the Ngorongoro Conservation
Published : 01 December 2022Nigeria`s slum lords evict the poorest as rents soar What’s the context? Rent inflation is causing pain in a nation where most people spend over half their income on housing, especially in Abuja: Rents skyrocket in Abuja due
Published : 28 November 2022Why My Organization Has Chosen to Defy Israeli Military Orders My organization, Al-Haq, was among 7 raided by Israel and ordered closed in August, but we do not believe in following illegal orders—and so we will
Published : 21 November 2022The recent CoP27 decision to establish a loss-and-damage is a monumental gain toward survival of the communities most-vulnerable to climate change and its effects. However, this hopeful statement comes with several caveats: Perhaps primary among
Published : 20 November 2022Webinar: Major outcomes of CoP27 negotiations on Resilience and Adaptation Moderator: Diam Bou Diab, Senior Program and Research Officer at ANND Speakers: Sarine Karajerjian, Program Director at Arab Reform Initiative Joseph Schechla, Coordinator of the Habitat International Coalition’s Housing and Land Rights
Published : 13 November 2022Food Chain Global Youth Champion 2022: Samuel Ikua We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of BBC’s Food Chain Global Youth Champion Award is Samuel Ikua, of HIC Member Mazingira Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. Samuel teaches
Published : 10 November 2022CoP27, Day 1: Loss and damage funding introduced as an agenda item Yeb Saño, Greenpeace’s CoP27 head of delegation, says: “It is a significant moment that loss and damage finance has been agreed as an agenda
Published : 07 November 2022