Israeli ‘Reforestation’ as Settlement Policy
Munich’s Jewish Museum calls Negev forests ‘settlement policy,’ sparking outcry State-run institution uses loaded term to describe afforestation near Beersheba; employee protests the use of ‘anti-Semitic imagery’; JNF Germany: Display ‘painful, intolerable’ Following an Israel-related controversy that forced
Published : 30 September 2019
HIC-HLRN Report to CESCR on Israel
HIC-HLRN has submitted a parallel report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on Israel’s Implementation of Covenant Rights and Obligations Related to Habitat, in advance of CESCR`s 66th Session on 2–3
Published : 19 September 2019
HIC-HLRN Joins Partners on Israel`s CERD Review
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) – Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has partnered with HIC Member organizations Al-Haq and BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (Palestine), as well as with Cairo Institute
Published : 09 September 2019
Adani Coal Takes Native Land as Oz Burns
While Queensland extinguishes native title over Indigenous land to make way for Adani coalmine Palaszczuk government did not announce decision Wangan and Jagalingou people say makes them trespassers on their own land The Queensland government has extinguished
Published : 31 August 2019
Condemnation of Forced Eviction in Cotonou
The Benin Federation of Slum / Informal Settlement Residents joins hands with sister movements from the Slum Dwellers International (SDI) movement across Africa to condemn the recent forced eviction of thousands of residents of Wxlacodji
Published : 29 August 2019
What`s Destroying the Amazon?
Since 1978 over 750,000 square kilometers (289,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana. Why is Earth`s largest rainforest being destroyed? For most of human history, deforestation in
Published : 23 August 2019
Brazil: Amazon on Fire
On Monday afternoon, the City of São Paulo, Brazil, went dark — but it wasn`t some strange cosmic event. Powerful winds carried the smoke from forest fires burning nearly 1,700 miles away, reported the BBC. Almost
Published : 21 August 2019
Fact-finding in Occupied Kashmir
`Real Situation Quite Different`: Activists Report Claim Situation Kashmir `Not Normal`. Noted economist Jean Dreze and activists Maimoona Mollah, Kavita Krishnan and Vimal Bhai travelled to various parts of Kashmir on 9–13 August to assess
Published : 15 August 2019
Nagaland Raises National Flag
‘Naga national flag’ hoisted across Naga-inhabited areas on ‘Independence Day’ GUWAHATI, Assam—The influential Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) on Wednesday hoisted the ‘Naga national flag’ to celebrate the 73rd ‘Naga Independence Day’ across the Naga-inhabited areas, including
Published : 14 August 2019