India must Halt Mass Eviction during COVID-19
The Indian state has been a cauldron of ethnic tensions for decades and the latest round of forced expulsions of hundreds of Muslims is only making the matters worse. ASSAM -- On September 24, dawn broke
Published : 24 September 2021
UN Food Summit Will Only Feed Corporations
Transnational agribusiness firms have captured the UN Food Systems Summit and have restricted the meeting`s agenda to solutions that will further inflate their profits instead of solving the global hunger crisis, says Sofia Monsalve, secretary general
Published : 22 September 2021
New Study: Forced Eviction in Baidoa, Somalia
This study titled ‘I want my land. You have to go’ comprehensively explores why forced evictions in Baidoa continue to thrive; and then takes a deep-dive into the factors that are fuelling, promoting, and sustaining
Published : 16 September 2021
Afghans Protest Taliban Evictions
Hundreds March in Kandahar to Protest against Taliban Evictions Residents of Zara Ferqa, a suburb made up of government housing and ramshackle huts, said they had been ordered to leave by the Taliban, but had nowhere
Published : 15 September 2021
227 Land Defenders Murdered in a Year
227 land and environmental activists murdered in a single year, the worst figure on record As the climate crisis intensifies, violence against defenders of the earth is escalating. A report released today reveals that 227 land and environmental activists
Published : 13 September 2021
India: Forced Eviction in 2020
Housing and Land Rights Network- India is pleased to announce the launch of a new report – Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic. The report reveals
Published : 12 September 2021
India Evicted 21 People Every Hour during COVID
More than 250,000 people were evicted across India during the coronavirus pandemic, and millions more are at risk of being uprooted as authorities eye projects for faster economic growth, housing rights campaigners warned on Thursday. From
Published : 09 September 2021
Egypt’s ‘Best Practice’ toward 2030 SDGs
UN Lists Upper Egypt Local Development Program as a Best Practice to Achieving Results Towards 2030 SDGs Story Highlights The Upper Egypt Local Development Program is strengthening the capacity of local government to deliver quality infrastructure and
Published : 07 September 2021
South Asia, Rising Ocean Displaces Millions
In South Asia, Rising Ocean Pushes out Those Living at the Shore In the vast Sunderbans delta that spans eastern India and Bangladesh, coastal erosion due to rising sea levels has been slowly carving away
Published : 05 September 2021
