Call for Regulating Climate Finance
Climate campaigners call for ‘one-for-one’ capital requirements A wide range of academics, economists and civil society organisations are calling for regulators to introduce ‘one-for-one’ capital requirements for financial institutions funding new fossil-fuel projects. The new campaign, spearheaded by research and advocacy
Published : 25 November 2021
Spain: Tenants Declare War on US Speculators
Spanish renters are declaring `war` on the American investors that bought up all the apartments in their neighborhoods US private-equity firms that own property in Spain have been evicting residents during the pandemic, the NYT reports. Tenants
Published : 23 November 2021
India: Laws Rescinded, Farmers Win
In burying farm laws, Govt may have held off demand for right to MSP Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s announcement on repealing the farm laws may have helped stave off the elephant in the room – making
Published : 20 November 2021
UN: Palestinians’ Right to Their Natural Resources
The United Nations has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution, which grants Palestinians permanent sovereignty over their natural resources in the Israeli-occupied territories, including East Jerusalem. On Thursday, 19 November 2021, the Economic and Financial Committee of the UN
Published : 19 November 2021
HIC @ Second Session of the EB of UN-Habitat
During the second session of the executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme 2021, Habitat International Coalition (HIC) presented an oral intervention as follows; HIC addresses here three agenda items: Under item 3, HIC
Published : 16 November 2021
EU Court Rules against Hungary Migrant Law
Hungarian law criminalizing asylum seeker help breaches EU law, top court rules The verdict is another legal win for the European Commission in its years-long battle over migration with Hungary. The Hungarian government acknowledged the ECJ ruling,
Published : 16 November 2021
EU Court Rules against Hungary Migrant Law
Hungarian law criminalizing asylum seeker help breaches EU law, top court rules The verdict is another legal win for the European Commission in its years-long battle over migration with Hungary. The Hungarian government acknowledged the ECJ ruling,
Published : 16 November 2021
Banning Human Rights Defenders: Comparing Apartheids
The banning of human rights defenders: Israel and South Africa compared Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations
Published : 16 November 2021
Copping-out at CoP26
The 26th Conference of Parties (CoP26) ended in grave disappointment at the state delegations who weakened the needed commitments to save the planet from multiple climate disasters. This CoP, the supreme governing body of international
Published : 14 November 2021
